Good food for thought. Never saw that in this text. It makes sense and for me puts this kind of fishing in the broader context of the spiritual battle we are in. At Westend CRC in GR where I am just finishing up as an STM, I did a series in the evening worship on the Holy Spirit. During the first message on John 3 re spiritual birth into the kingdom. I asked the congregation to put names of those they knew who they thought needed to be spiritually born again and we got about 130 names just from the Sunday pm group! It seems to me there is a whole lot of catching to be done. Thank God for prayer, the Holy Spirit and the One they focus on, Jesus. Thanks for the article and for your work in the CRC!
I like your comments, Meg. I have always had and still do have a difficult time with the thinking that somehow the call to the Great Copmmission and to dig in re social issues is somehow mot the main thing. When I recently read Rob Bell's interesting book Jesus Came To Save Christians I think this sort of thinking is, in part, what Jesus came to save us from. I want no part of that dualistic thinking. It is not part of my theology. And I am personally very passionate about the call to go and make disciples! Amen to that.
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Good food for thought. Never saw that in this text. It makes sense and for me puts this kind of fishing in the broader context of the spiritual battle we are in. At Westend CRC in GR where I am just finishing up as an STM, I did a series in the evening worship on the Holy Spirit. During the first message on John 3 re spiritual birth into the kingdom. I asked the congregation to put names of those they knew who they thought needed to be spiritually born again and we got about 130 names just from the Sunday pm group! It seems to me there is a whole lot of catching to be done. Thank God for prayer, the Holy Spirit and the One they focus on, Jesus. Thanks for the article and for your work in the CRC!
Blessings, Dan Gritter
Posted in: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
I like your comments, Meg. I have always had and still do have a difficult time with the thinking that somehow the call to the Great Copmmission and to dig in re social issues is somehow mot the main thing. When I recently read Rob Bell's interesting book Jesus Came To Save Christians I think this sort of thinking is, in part, what Jesus came to save us from. I want no part of that dualistic thinking. It is not part of my theology. And I am personally very passionate about the call to go and make disciples! Amen to that.