Coming & Going: Balance in Focus
by Dale on Sep.02, 2010, under Church, Discipleship, Gospel
It is so easy for a body of believers to emphasize either the corporate gatherings for Bible study, discipleship and worship or the missional expansion into the surrounding communities. Often emphasis in one area causes neglect of the other. Over the past few years, the methodological boundary lines have felt like the front lines of some evangelical civil war zone with cannon shots fired back and forth while the lost world looks on with their ears covered. As a Church, we must recover our fundamental identity as missionaries and begin assimilating a balance that unites the divided methodological extremes with the singular motivation of loving other’s into the Kingdom of God and urge all Christians to focus on the mission of Jesus both in the sanctuaries and in the streets.
by Dale on Sep.01, 2010, under Discipleship, Life
We rarely experience God so much as God simply allows us to perceive His divine presence or reality.
Birth is not something we honestly experience as much as it is what allows us to experience life.
We don’t experience life as much as birth (existence) allows us to experience life—or Life is what allows us to experience phenomenal reality.
We don’t so much see light as much as light is what allows us to see everything else.
Christianity is not something you can grasp as much as it is what changes how we grasp or understand everything…
God doesn’t enter creation as an object or thing that I can merely talk about or know about –God transforms how I know or talk about (how I interact with) everything/ everyone else in creation.
Jesus, while being as much God as Human, was emptied of the fullness/totality of divinity in order to fully enter a fragment of created reality. Moses got a more glorified glimpse of God and literally glowed for days.
God is the one who transforms my experience from general phenomenon to divine encounter.
