Found an old friend.
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“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things that don’t really matter.” -Tim Kizziar.
I think I may have referenced this quote in an earlier post. Just found it!
That’s an awesome quote. That’s somehow what I feel about things I do. Sometimes it’s great that I’m successful at something, but what does it matter if it has no meaning? And what an even greater thing for the church to recall. What does mass amounts of evangelism profit if all that comes from it is a wishy-washy, watered-down belief system that looks just like a happier version of the world? (It’s like play food versus real food, one gets messy and can spoil, but the other looks perfect all the time!) At the same time, I think most Christians need to recall that God has already redeemed the world and that the world still is full of the glory of God, that the rocks cry glory when we (shamefully) do not. We don’t need to make the world Christian, as though the physicality of it is wicked (agnosticism at its best, still clutching Christianity pretty tightly), what we need to do is work out own faith with trembling, partaking in the body of Christ as His bride, recognize that His kingdom is already established and that we are in it’s presence at all times – especially when we pray, partake of his body and blood, etc., and that we await the fulness of His kingdom!!
Glory, glory hallelujah!
Michelle
June 3, 2008 at 8:43 am
oops..I think I mean “gnosticism” at it best, not A-gnoticism…
Michelle
June 4, 2008 at 2:09 pm
There’s definitely a lot of evaluation that needs to happen of anything, ANYTHING we do (which is a huge task), but I think it is absolutely necessary. Paul speaks of needing to go as far as to take every thought captive and make our minds obedient to Christ. Not that I’m sure I know what that last part looks like. Love the analogy of the food too. I’ve really come up against somethings I learned a while back about Christian freedom in contrast to how the Bible calls us to live. I think we’re free to do whatever we like, once saved. But, there’s a whole lot more to it than that. Living Christian-ly is incredibly different than what we are free to do. I keep coming back to the point that saying you can live like the world and be a Christian should be just as wrong as saying you can live like a Christian and still not be saved. The two should be sooooo different that there should be no mistaking one for the other. I don’t handle that well. All praise and glory to God that He is merciful to me, a sinner.
plukevdh
June 8, 2008 at 11:56 pm