Before You Call the Cops On Your Friends
If the people of God can’t work out their own problems and grievances among themselves, we’ve got little hope of convincing outsiders that they should join our “wonderful” community.
If the people of God can’t work out their own problems and grievances among themselves, we’ve got little hope of convincing outsiders that they should join our “wonderful” community.
The Holy Spirit will often engage and employ our earthly credentials and accomplishments to get his work done; it’s just not usually how we would have done it.
In the eyes of the watching world, Jesus was completely vulnerable. But in the strength of the Holy Spirit, he was totally invincible.
Listening for the whisper of the Holy Spirit is a cultivated skill which must become part of our discipleship.
When theology devolves into ideology it’s a short step to idolatry, which inevitably pushes out doxology.
Here’s a mark of Holy Spirit maturity in a follower of Jesus: You no longer have anything to prove; only something to become.
Is it possible for you and me to know Jesus in the way that Paul knew Jesus, and if so, would we want to?
Paul wanted those who persecuted him to know Jesus as he knew him—as all in all, as his sufficiency and strength, as his one exclusive hope.
This is conversion: the journey from knowledge to knowing. It makes all the difference in the world.
Why aren’t our churches centers of learning languages? It’s probably the most apostolic move we could make.
The world sees a crisis. The apostle sees an opportunity. What looks like sure martyrdom turns out to be a bigger microphone.