Ripple 2: Deeper
The world is drawn to his light shining through us. But it is pointing them beyond us and illuminating the way to him.
September 3, 2021
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The world is drawn to his light shining through us. But it is pointing them beyond us and illuminating the way to him.
Jesus’ vision for us is not a comfortably full belly, but a primal craving and hunger for what is needed most, what will fill to overflowing.
The Spirit will pull us from our beds, throw back the comforters, disturb our peace, and interrupt our slumber. He will meet us in unrest.
Maturity in the Christian faith is not a function of time on task, or time in church, but about being a person who lives by the Spirit.
This “teaching about righteousness” is not a body of knowledge—it is a way of knowing that gets way beyond knowledge.
Maturity in the Christian faith is not a function of time on task, or time in church, but about being a person who lives by the Spirit.
The Church is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit shared in the bonded attachment of the sons and daughters of God caught up in the bonded love of Father-Son-Holy Spirit.
We just have to get over the “God would you please do this” mentality and into the “Jesus you have done and are doing this” faith.
The second half of the gospel is an ongoing process of transformation we must be taught and trained to enter into and live out.
Awakening prayer is a kind of house in and of itself, a dwelling place we must come to live in all the time.
We need an arresting vision of holiness that evaporates the thin religiosity which tends to get passed off as faith.