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“Under the New Testament it’s all different. It’s not conformity, it’s a relationship with a Person. It’s not my failure, it’s his success. It’s not me working for God, it’s God working through me. It’s not service under the letter of the law, it’s service in the newness of the spirit. Not death but life. Not I but Christ. Not trying but trusting…" (R. Girard. Brethren, Hang Loose. 111; Reprinted in R. Shelly, In Step with the Spirit, 13)
“And now, how simple, and yet how comprehensive, is the ministry of the Spirit. In his great plea there is the one supreme end ever in view—the regeneration of the world.” (W.K. Pendleton, The Living Pulpit of the Christian Church, 1868, 323.)
By developing a rationalistic understanding of truth that denies spiritual powers and presence (either evil or good) we became a people whose ministries and understandings and missions can only have human directives, human goals, human initiative, and human outcomes. {J. York, “Ministry and the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts,” Leaven 12(3) 2004: 140.}
Prayer: “Men and women of persistent prayer are those who are constantly alert, alive to the will of God and the need of the world, and ready to give an account of themselves and their stewardship.” (Bruce, TNICNT, 172)
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