If gifts are rivers of light streaming from God, as the “Father of Light”, then do I find it so hard to use them? Do you use your gifts all the time? Are you totally all up in that junk?
What is light?
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I was privileged to be part of our message prep team today about the new series we are going to start out of the book of James.
The lead team was wanting to flesh out a compelling reason for people to come to church in the month of July, which is notoriously known in Portland Oregon for having low attendance at churches.
They knew they wanted to go through James but is that enough for our members to invest and invite people to come. Essentially, is it worth coming home early from vacation just to go to church?
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Reading “The Spirit of the Disciplines” by Dallas Willard I was struck with quote in which he says, “…we so devoutly believe in the power of effort-at-the-moment-of-action alone to accomplish what we want and completely ignore the need for character change in our lives as a whole. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.”
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What we can clearly see in a television show can sometimes pass by unnoticed in our own communities. As people stop tuning in to “Jon and Kate Plus 8” because they can no longer relate or people still tune in just for the spectacle of it all, couldn’t we say the same thing is potentially happening to our churches?
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