This article is full of wisdom. Best thing Ive read on the subject. - At the end of Jesus Sermon on the Mount, he says, Beware of false prophets; by their fruit you will know them. We quote our Teacher. So why dont we apply his words? So often Christians approach that as if it says, by their gifts you shall know them or by their results or charisma you shall know them, Schlaepfer says. In context, Jesus is saying the exact opposite. He is talking about the fruit of the Spirit. By their spirit, their love, their joy, their peace, their gentleness—that is how you will know them. ... If I hear one more person at a church conference tell me that they finished Walter Isaacsons biography on Steve Jobs and picked up lots of great ideas on how to lead their church, Im going to scream, says Schlaepfer. ... Beware of the theology of victory, which I think is very prominent in America, Gaydos says. This victory theology is get upstream, lets change culture, lets change the world, lets start a movement kind of thinking. We become more concerned with doing something great and less concerned with simply living as a faithful presence and witness in our neighborhoods and cities.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:25:38 +0000
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