Assisting Christian Business Owners and Leaders Integrate Faith + Business, Personal Coach. Navy Submarine Veteran. Speaker.
"Imagine Pentecost in your church this Sunday: You are endued as was Peter, under your word, brother Ananias is slain and his wife soon stiff beside him! Would the moderns stand for that?" Leonard Ravenhill "Why Revival Tarries" How would you react to this happening at your church? Does this go against your concept that Jesus is about love and acceptance?
I build bridges without wood or stone, uniting hearts and minds alone. My purpose serves a cause divine, In reverence, love, and sacred time. What am I? Answer: Worship #faithfirst https://lnkd.in/gyTDvqby
Jesus didn't come into the world to condemn it, but to rescue it and the church should be no different. That being said, it isn't loving to see someone harming themselves and say nothing. Sometimes, love is uncomfortable. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is speak truth, not in condemnation, but in compassion. It isn't loving to enable sin with silence just as it isn't loving to point fingers in self-righteousness. In his book, "Messy Grace", Caleb Kaltenbach says, "The tension between grace and truth is called love." Righteousness and lawlessness can't coexist and as the Church, we need to be calling our culture, calling one another and calling ourselves out of lawlessness and into righteousness. We need to be encouraging one another to good deeds and helping one another fight against the sins that easily beset each and every one of us. This is what a healthy church does. It doesn't intentionally err on the side of grace. It lives in the precarious tension between grace and truth. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? - 2 Corinthians 6:14
Adapted from Barnes’ Notes: “And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.” Christ-followers are to lead an orderly, peaceful life; living in the practice of calm virtues. The duty to which Paul would exhort the early church was that of being subordinate to the laws; of avoiding all tumult and disorder; of calmly pursuing their regular avocations, and of keeping themselves from all the assemblages of the idle, the restless, and the dissatisfied. No Christian should be engaged in a mob; none should be identified with the popular excitements which lead to disorder and to the disregard of the laws. The word rendered ‘ye study,’ means properly, ‘to love honor, to be ambitious;’ and here means the same as when we say ‘to make it a point of honor’ to do so and so. Therefore, it is to be regarded as a sacred duty; a thing in which our honor is concerned. Jesus never fails.
*Faith Love and Hope* Paul writes - Since we belong to the day, let’s be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. (1Th 5:8) To be a light to the world, we need to: 1)Have faith that God loves us and has our backs in every situation. 2) We need to love like the Father who gave His only begotten Son. 3) And have the hope that Jesus is coming back to take us home. Like a lantern needs oil, a wick and a glass globe to light a room, having faith, love and hope will result in an inner peace that would light a dark and dying world. 1 Cor 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The most constructive thing we can do with our practice is lead by example. Instead of vilifying others for getting it *wrong*, we can use our gifts to set an example of sacred service that shines for others. In this way, the Gods speak through our just actions & set a standard. www.iconsofkmt.com www.scribe.iconsofkmt.com
Administrator, Pastor, Teacher, Professor, Ministry Mentor, Network Catalyst
Key Things A New Disciple Needs to Learn - They Have A New Identity in C… If you lead a person to Christ, there are key truths they need to know and key practices they need to implement. As a disciplemaker, you need to help that new Jesus follower learn these things.
ANOINTED TO SERVE! Couldn't believe to see a number of youth receiving Jesus. Stand with us to celebrate their lives. Just imagine their Spritual rebirth? Moral, new relationships with Jesus and his body. Hallelujah In Luke 4:18, Jesus proclaims His divine mission, emphasizing that He is anointed to serve and bring salvation. This passage reflects the perspective that true anointing is for service—healing, liberating, and uplifting others. Jesus embodies the servant-leader model, where the anointing is not for self-glorification but for fulfilling God’s purpose. This teaches that believers are also called to serve, using their gifts to impact the world positively. The anointing empowers one to address the needs of others, reflecting God’s love and justice in tangible ways.
Administrator, Pastor, Teacher, Professor, Ministry Mentor, Network Catalyst
Key Things A New Disciple Needs to Learn - They Have A New Identity in C… If you lead a person to Christ, there are key truths they need to know and key practices they need to implement. As a disciplemaker, you need to help that new Jesus follower learn these things.
Administrator, Pastor, Teacher, Professor, Ministry Mentor, Network Catalyst
Key Things A New Disciple Needs to Learn - They Have A New Identity in C… If you lead a person to Christ, there are key truths they need to know and key practices they need to implement. As a disciplemaker, you need to help that new Jesus follower learn these things.
Check out our latest short devotional on following the Lord. https://lnkd.in/eXdyvfa2