A First Century Battle Cry for a 21st Century Church
Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee.
Maybe the greatest myth that needs busting for the people of God today is the myth of “strength in numbers.”
Jesus seems to be a lot more interested in building a Church and growing a kingdom in the midst of nations.
Apart from the strength of the Spirit, we will fail. In the strength of the Holy Spirit, all things are possible.
Maybe Paul realized he couldn’t compete with Corinth on Corinth’s terms; that he simply needed to let the gospel speak on the gospel’s terms.
What before were human qualifications, in the hands of the Holy Spirit become Holy Love; the demonstrative power of God.
A God who dies for his own people in order to save them is not only implausible; it is an absurdity.
Petitions and protests have their place in the church, but they tend to be pretty flimsy and of little consequence unless their purposed outcomes have deep moorings in the Word of God.
To be “open-minded” can be a good thing, but open-mindedness is only virtuous to the extent it is accompanied by rigorous discernment.