Why Women Won’t Submit to Men and Vice-Versa
The Kingdom comes in response to radical surrender to Jesus “in heaven,” which is manifest through radical submission to each other “on Earth.”
The Kingdom comes in response to radical surrender to Jesus “in heaven,” which is manifest through radical submission to each other “on Earth.”
“Whatever you do” knows no limitation. It is totalizing and comprehensive. Paul instructs we are to never leave character. And the character is Jesus Christ.
The Peace of Christ is the Peace of the Cross, a place of unbridled chaos and unutterable pain intersected with the complete reverse of resurrection.
Compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience create the conditions where the Holy Spirit heals wounded people, mends broken relationships and reverses intractable situations.
Our old selves must be taken off, deconstructed, crucified, dead, and buried. This only happens when we dare to believe the gloriously beautiful truth about ourselves.
Condemned, cancelled sin can be so wiley and deceptive, and it can keep us shrouded in so much shame that we can’t bear even the thought of opening up about it to someone else.
What we need are not more baptismal rituals and remembrances for the spiritually dead. What we need are more tombstones for the living.
I’m afraid we’ve gotten a lot better at delighting ourselves with restful morning devotions than we are at the movemental discipline of rigorous devotion.