I had a dream. In it, people discovered the fullness of Jesus Christ. People gathered together daily, ate their meals together, and shared the Lord’s Supper in an atmosphere of joy and celebration. People gave, and without man-made limitations. They gave everything they owned, everything they were, and every spiritual gift they had received from [...]
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Tagged Church Issues, Community, Dream, Fellowship, Hope, Love, Trinity
Nothing infuriates me more than trying to use the Book of Acts to teach people how to live, only to run into some footsoldier of the descriptive-prescriptive battle. These folks love to put the kibosh on one mention after another of how the early Church functioned, particularly when someone asks why today’s Church isn’t functioning [...]
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Also posted in Boldness, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Faith, Godly Character, Humility, Love, Maturity, Simplicity
Tagged Acts, Assembly, Belief, Book of Acts, Church Meeting, Contemporary Church, Description, Descriptive, Early Church, Hardheartedness, Idolatry, Modern Church, Practice, Praxis, Prescription, Prescriptive, Unbelief
When I was a younger Christian, I heard a great deal about the “God-shaped hole” that existed in each of us. Only God could fill that hole. Left unfilled, the hole drove people to despair as they tried to fill it with one inappropriate plug after another. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, riches, power, fame…nothing [...]
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Also posted in Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Counterculture, Discernment, Dying to Self, Godly Character, Holiness, Humility, Maturity, Oddities, Relevance, Simplicity
Tagged Boredom, Despair, Ennui, God-Shaped Hole, Self-Medication, Substitutes, Thirst for God
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