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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Dear Nicolay,
Greetings, dear brother! Here is the first practical idea for you to
consider. Hang on because it will seem radical to you. I begin with I
Cor. 14:26 where Paul encourages everyone to participate. Compare that
to your services where only a few participate. Nicolay, allow me to
suggest one way for you to encourage participation of all of your
people is to change the way in which you handle God’s Word – to go to
participatory learning and participatory teaching of God’s Word.
In all honesty, monologue preaching is less than effective in making
disciples or transforming lives. Evaluate this for yourself.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
So here we go again...
Can a Christian eat pork ribs or a ham sandwich? Not many of us who
confess faith in Christ would have too hard a time answering that
question. Yet, for first-century believers this was one of those "tough
issues" that had to be worked through. Just ask Peter. In Acts 10 Peter
tells the voice from heaven, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten
anything unholy and unclean. Yet he is corrected, What God has
cleansed, no longer consider unholy.
Can a Christian drink wine? Believers in Argentina would think, what a
silly question! Of course you can. Jesus did. There is even a miracle
in the Bible about Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding feast.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
I have never been able to enjoy looking at a bird in a cage, even if it
is a nice cage. While it may provide a safe haven and contain all the
food and water she will ever need it also prevents her from doing the
one thing God made her to do. A bird that cannot take wing and soar to
the heights misses the best part of being a bird.
Over the last decade I’ve communicated with thousands of people whom
God has awoken to the fact that they have grown up in religious cages
that have stunted their growth and robbed them of God’s life. Some were
thrown out for questioning the sanctity of the cage, while others
escaped when they noticed the door was not closed as tightly as they’d
been led to believe.
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
Dear Nicolay,
Before I get to the practical ideas that you asked for – let me first talk about the nature of change.
The decision about change often centers on not the need for change, but
the rate or speed of change. There are those who favor gradual,
systematic change and there are those, like myself, who propose
significant, radical change.
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