God Centered Life

We come to the story of Abraham in Genesis and we find a command, a blessing, and then an action. The hard part for us is to believe that it is actually the case that to center our lives on God, to commit our lives to God, is indeed good.

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There are people drifting merrily on their way all around us, thinking that a few occasional religious acts, or a prayer here or there, or something they said in their youththey think that will save them.

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It's important that we have clarity in the Christian church on what we're trying to achieve, based on the Scriptures and the gospel. And it needs to be memorable, so that everyone in the church understands what the common goal is.

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God is commanding repentance. Paul is saying a change of heart and life is required. A day of judgment is coming. So we say: Meet this person called Jesus, and you'll find he is the truth and he is also love.

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Many people today are moving beyond an orthodox belief in God to relativism. We need to find a way to point people to the truth and to encounter the personal Truth, Jesus.

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How can the Paul and Silas sing praise when God has allowed them to be beaten and thrown in prison? Shouldn't they be complaining? The answer is that they realized that the ultimate prize in life is not freedom from physical pain, but the presence of spiritual peace.

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I sometimes wonder whether one of the signs of pride is a lack of rest or an increasing intensity. We do need to work hard and work for God. Yet where is the Sabbath principle in our lives? There is a temptation to take pride in how busy we areand wear it like a badge.

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The Spirit is about advancing the gospel of Jesus. So an irrefutable sign of our experiencing the Spirit will be that we will be telling our friends about Christ. We will be a church that doesn't just send out missionaries, we will be on mission here and now.

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When the Bible clearly teaches on something, we stand on that, even if that means we are counter-cultural. There are things that we as a church stand on that people strongly disagree about, but if the Bible says it, we stick to it.

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They had a sharp disagreement in Acts 15 over a minor matter after resolving a much larger matter earlier. But God is one so we must be one. Our unity is a reflection of God's nature and an answer to Jesus' prayer. We must make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

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