I don't care what you come up with...
bad commercials, William Hung, those movies they make you watch in Driver's Ed...
No, not even 62 year old Mick Jagger wearing a baby-t and lowcut jeans...
Nothing could possibly compare to the horror, the sheer mindblowing "I can't believe I am actually seeing this!" of:
The scariest video ever...
"Same with reading God's Word, with "going to church", with discussing Scripture with other people... Every once in awhile, something amazing jumps out at us and changes us. But mostly, it's the every day discipline of coming to God's Word, it's the every week submission of putting ourselves under God's Word... that's what keeps us alive."
preaching... It's kind of like...
"From the desire to be esteemed,
Deliver us, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved by all...
From the desire to be honored ...
From the desire to be praised ...
Deliver us, Jesus."
Prayer for Humility
"It's true... If you look hard enough, you can find some people making universalistic statements. And to be honest, I'm concerned with these as well. I think at some point, we'll need to take Andrew Jones' admonition that 'If there are one or two new emerging churches who have lost the plot, or never saw it clearly to begin with, and are now giving the other hundreds of emerging churches a bad name, they should be lovingly confronted with the better way of Jesus.'"
Some criticism of the emerging church...
"I was raised with and even planted our church community, Evergreen, with a complementarian view of women in ministry. Though if I were honest, I'd have to say I was prepared to do whatever I could to get around that. Originally, I saw a male "elder" board for our community that handled the “shepherding” and a co-ed "leadership team" that really handled the details of administration and ministry.
But a funny thing happened. I changed. I went back to Scripture, re-examined not only what it said, but what it said against the backdrop of the culture at the time it was said, and I came out different than when I started.
The process started for me..."
Women in leadership...
"I have always managed to live by the creedo "It will work out." I know that will come back and bite me on the arse someday, but it really has pretty much been the way life has gone for me. It always works out..."
divine humor
"Those who say every follower of Jesus should be practicing the spiritual disciplines (things like fasting, prayer, meditation, giving, etc) as a matter of course are wrong. They are not a requirement. The are not a sign of spiritual maturity. In fact, in a real way, practicing the disciplines is a sign of spiritual immaturity."
Practicing the Disciplines is a sign of Spiritual IMmaturity...
"I think in our context, it's much easier to talk about forgiving, and forgiving prodigiously, than it is to talk about the confrontation God the Holy Spirit often uses to bring conviction, repentance and then forgiveness.
Lord, increase my faith..."
pastor and prophet 2
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