I need to know more, I need to learn more, I need to grow up more, I need to become more comfortable with....., I need....... I need...... I need..... and never get around to serving.
We actually provide people with a Sanctioned Inactivity in Church today.When
2 Peter 1:3 says : " His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness..."
Notice the past tense here. We have already been given everything we need. We don't need anything more to serve. That total provision was given to us the day we were saved as the Holy Spirit (God) came to reside in side of us. Certainy we ned to grow "more and more" (DO a NIV search) but the seeds are planted and growing.
If you knew enough to accept Jesus, we now know enough to share how to accept him with others. The silly excuses we make. It's not a lack of anything other than a lack of will, or desire, or obedience, or love, that keeps us from missional living. I know this is true, because I have been there too.
If you have Jesus you have his mission. Can't have one or the other. Package deal.
We actually provide people with a Sanctioned Inactivity in Church today.When
2 Peter 1:3 says : " His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness..."
Notice the past tense here. We have already been given everything we need. We don't need anything more to serve. That total provision was given to us the day we were saved as the Holy Spirit (God) came to reside in side of us. Certainy we ned to grow "more and more" (DO a NIV search) but the seeds are planted and growing.
If you knew enough to accept Jesus, we now know enough to share how to accept him with others. The silly excuses we make. It's not a lack of anything other than a lack of will, or desire, or obedience, or love, that keeps us from missional living. I know this is true, because I have been there too.
If you have Jesus you have his mission. Can't have one or the other. Package deal.
"Consumerism is based on the belief that I can’t help others until I help myself, that my own wants and needs trump the needs of others"
(Tangible Kingdom. Hugh Halter, pg 151. 2008, Jossey-Bass)
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