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More Monday morning musings…
- Yesterdays talk of reflecting the image of God’s justice has deeply challenged me…and this week I am going to be more aware of the opportunities I have to live it out. Do you have any stories to share yet?
- I think your right…maybe I shouldn’t have told the story of making my brother-in-law carry me out of the pond…but it’s too late now…so, I’m standing by it…proud of it. Thanks Brent, I’m sure that water was cold!
- I know I’ve said this before…but it is even clearer to me today. God is preparing and refining nbc for something amazing. Daily I am aware of the stirring and leading work of God’s spirit…he is breaking our dependence on form and ritual and he is moving us to into authenticity and vulnerability.
- How do you know when God is at work in people’s lives? Just watch for the push-back. It seems that when the Spirit of God starts to call us deeper…the level of resistance goes through the roof. Suddenly we start to hang on to the things we have replaced God with in our lives.
- As I mentioned yesterday at the end of service…these are exciting days at nbc…God is shaping and refining our vision of what it means to be the church. We haven’t fully worked out every detail yet…but we have a vision of a unified body of community…walking in the same tempo…growing…knowing…learning…and living out the Life. Continue to pray as we think and dream of what should and could be…
- This Sunday we are going to wrap up our Imago Dei series. We will be talking about reflecting the image of God’s beauty…to me, this is the heart of the series…the moment when the theology of Imago Dei fully makes sense. The beauty of God is best seen in the reflection of Jesus. This would be a great service to bring someone with you…we are going to do our best to communicate the beauty of the message of Jesus as clearly and simply as we know how.
Categories: Monday Morning Musings
About point number two… though I did confess that I would have dumped you in the cold water had I been in your brother-in-law’s shoes, I think it was a fabulous story to tell! Besides, it was definitely the perfect illustration for the message. As for point number four, that’s so interesting and so true… I’ve never noticed that before…
Yeah–you really did deserve to be dunked—-good thing Brent is such a nice guy! We got the whole thing on video though—–blackmail???
Point #4
Why do you think we resist? Is it the fear of letting go of the comfortable or the fear of being unworthy? For myself I believe its both, the comfortable is easy and safe and the feeling unworthy can become an excuse for not trying.
Good question…and I think your right about it being both fear and a lack of trust…but the bottom line is that when we resist God in our lives we are saying, “my will is more important then Yours.”
Just found a great article about “reflecting God’s justice.”
http://www.navpress.com/magazines/archives/article.aspx?id=1.133.6