One of the leaders in our church was sharing a little about the ministry at Mardi Gras this year. He said that the report was that 90% of the people they talked to this year had been 'in the church' at one time. He talked about ex-worship leaders who said 'it just didn't stick'. He talked about a pastor's daughter who 'knew better'.
This one really stuck with me. I believe the American church has developed a generation that 'knows better' but they do not know God. And knowing better doesn't keep you from sin - knowing God does. My prayer is that we begin to know God - and to help people to know God. Religious rules and spiritual talk does not a lover of Jesus make. Encountering a real God, who has an amazing love for us, does.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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- I'm passionately in love with Jesus. He overwhelms me. I'm outrageously in love with my husband of 11 years. He stole my heart. I'm giddily in love with my kids. They make me laugh.
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And this stirs up thoughts of one of the beginning cha[ters of Provocations. The full dose or half dose. "Common sense, cool minded mediocrity never catches on. It undeviatingly continues to say of the hald-dosage-"After-all it is something; even if it doesn't work very well, it is still something."
God fill me with boundless charity divine. THat I wouldn't be satisfied with mediocrity.
This is so true.
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