from Beth Moore's James: Mercy Triumphs
"James helped introduce [Paul] the form persecutor."
convert's reorientation: "what mattered most before no longer matters; what did not matter before is now central" (23).
"... the people of God often turn on one another rather than rally in unity against our real enemy" (26
Do we think we have a few strikes against our relationships with other servants of God? Do we think the work of God is only accomplished when we're riding tandem with our personal favorites? Do we believe we always have to see it the same to do ministry together? (26)
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
803
Beth Moore, James: Mercy Triumphs
"When, like a laser, the call of Christ sears a hole through your self-protectiveness, you go wherever He leads whether or not you feel like you fit. How will we ever press onward through the hot winds from hell if we can't even get past awkward?" (21)
"It's time to live like those who cannot die" (22)
"When, like a laser, the call of Christ sears a hole through your self-protectiveness, you go wherever He leads whether or not you feel like you fit. How will we ever press onward through the hot winds from hell if we can't even get past awkward?" (21)
"It's time to live like those who cannot die" (22)
Monday, July 11, 2011
802
Jim Elliot as quoted in Platt, Radical:
"So what if the well-fed church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses and the Prophets, and a whole lot more" (177).
Safety is found only His sovereignty; security is found only in His love; satisfaction is found only in His presence (181).
"So what if the well-fed church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses and the Prophets, and a whole lot more" (177).
Safety is found only His sovereignty; security is found only in His love; satisfaction is found only in His presence (181).
Saturday, July 9, 2011
801
David Platt, Radical
I can stand with the starving or with the overfed.... I can embrace Jesus while I give away my wealth or walk away from Him while I hoard my wealth (140).
"... going is urgent, not optional."
Equality of persons does not equal equality of ideas. Faith is a matter of truth, not of taste.
" soft-drink company in Atlanta has done a better job getting brown sugar-water to these people [who have never heard the Gospel] than the church of Jesus Christ has done in getting the Gospel to them" (159).
"The questions is not, 'Can we find God's will?' The question is, 'Will we obey God's will?'" (160)
"... if we really become like Jesus, the world will hate us... [as they] hated Him....The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ" (167).
"The purpose of the church is to mobilize a people to accomplish a mission. Yet we seem to have turned... [the] troop carrier... into a luxury liner" (170).
I can stand with the starving or with the overfed.... I can embrace Jesus while I give away my wealth or walk away from Him while I hoard my wealth (140).
"... going is urgent, not optional."
Equality of persons does not equal equality of ideas. Faith is a matter of truth, not of taste.
" soft-drink company in Atlanta has done a better job getting brown sugar-water to these people [who have never heard the Gospel] than the church of Jesus Christ has done in getting the Gospel to them" (159).
"The questions is not, 'Can we find God's will?' The question is, 'Will we obey God's will?'" (160)
"... if we really become like Jesus, the world will hate us... [as they] hated Him....The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ" (167).
"The purpose of the church is to mobilize a people to accomplish a mission. Yet we seem to have turned... [the] troop carrier... into a luxury liner" (170).
Friday, July 8, 2011
800
David Platt, Radical
"'In light of the fact that you have a God in Heaven who is set on caring for you as a shepherd does his sheep, as a father does his children, and as a king does who is passing on an entire kingdom, don't be anxious. Sell your possessions, give to the poor, and don't worry. Your God--your Shepherd, you Father, your King--has everything under control'" (123).
"'... there is never going to come a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, "I wish you'd kept more for yourself"'" (123).
Calvin once said... half... the church's funds should be allotted... for the poor" (compare with church budgets today.) (128-129).
"'What would happen... if we stopped asking how much we could spare and started asking how much it was going to take?" Stop giving scraps; start giving surplus (130).
"Where is the line between responsible saving... and irresponsible hoarding...? (137)
I can stand with the starving or with the overfed.... I can embrace Jesus while I give away my wealth or walk away from Him while I hoard my wealth" (140).
"'In light of the fact that you have a God in Heaven who is set on caring for you as a shepherd does his sheep, as a father does his children, and as a king does who is passing on an entire kingdom, don't be anxious. Sell your possessions, give to the poor, and don't worry. Your God--your Shepherd, you Father, your King--has everything under control'" (123).
"'... there is never going to come a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, "I wish you'd kept more for yourself"'" (123).
Calvin once said... half... the church's funds should be allotted... for the poor" (compare with church budgets today.) (128-129).
"'What would happen... if we stopped asking how much we could spare and started asking how much it was going to take?" Stop giving scraps; start giving surplus (130).
"Where is the line between responsible saving... and irresponsible hoarding...? (137)
I can stand with the starving or with the overfed.... I can embrace Jesus while I give away my wealth or walk away from Him while I hoard my wealth" (140).
Thursday, July 7, 2011
799
David Platt, Radical
"... internal transformation... has external implications" (110).
"Regardless of what we say or sing or study on Sunday morning, rich people who neglect the poor are not the people of God" (115)....We... pretend that we are.... We... turn a blind eye to... words in the Bible and go on with our affluent model of Christianity and church" (115-116).
"... possessions are to be spent on building, not a place [church buildings]..., but a people who are taking God's glory to the world" (117).
"... outdated models of religion that wrongfully consume our time and money when God has called us to be a people who spend our lives for the sake of His glory among the needy outside our gates" (118).
Gundry in Platt: "'That Jesus did not command all His followers to sell all their possessions gives comfort only to the kind of people to whom He would issue that command" (120).
The Jesus of the Bible is not "the Jesus we have created and are comfortable with" (120).
"... internal transformation... has external implications" (110).
"Regardless of what we say or sing or study on Sunday morning, rich people who neglect the poor are not the people of God" (115)....We... pretend that we are.... We... turn a blind eye to... words in the Bible and go on with our affluent model of Christianity and church" (115-116).
"... possessions are to be spent on building, not a place [church buildings]..., but a people who are taking God's glory to the world" (117).
"... outdated models of religion that wrongfully consume our time and money when God has called us to be a people who spend our lives for the sake of His glory among the needy outside our gates" (118).
Gundry in Platt: "'That Jesus did not command all His followers to sell all their possessions gives comfort only to the kind of people to whom He would issue that command" (120).
The Jesus of the Bible is not "the Jesus we have created and are comfortable with" (120).
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
798
"... be gospel-living, gospel-speaking people at every moment and in every context where we find ourselves" (94).
"... allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action" (99).
Am I a receiver or a reproducer of God's Word? "How can I listen to His Word so that I'm equipped to teach this word to others"? (102).
People of God no longer listen "as if His Word is intended to stop with them. They... [live] as if God's Word is intended to spread through them" (103).
"God's design... involves... sacrificing every facet of [life] to multiply the life of Christ in others" (104).
"(...we may be the only organization in the world defining success by what we don't do.)"
"... discipling... involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others....going, baptizing, and teaching in the contexts where [we] live every day" (105). Is anything else... even... church?" (106).
"... allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action" (99).
Am I a receiver or a reproducer of God's Word? "How can I listen to His Word so that I'm equipped to teach this word to others"? (102).
People of God no longer listen "as if His Word is intended to stop with them. They... [live] as if God's Word is intended to spread through them" (103).
"God's design... involves... sacrificing every facet of [life] to multiply the life of Christ in others" (104).
"(...we may be the only organization in the world defining success by what we don't do.)"
"... discipling... involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others....going, baptizing, and teaching in the contexts where [we] live every day" (105). Is anything else... even... church?" (106).
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