Comments on: My Supplemental Jesus http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122 David Hayward is an artist trapped inside a pastor's body. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Isadora http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44516 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:46:45 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44516 There is no importance placed on the art of discernment today and that is quite possibly by design. When there are so many out to swindle the masses, why would they want to mention the possibility to think much less discern. Beware - lack of discernment is dangerous to your health, happiness, physical and spiritual well being. There is no importance placed on the art of discernment today and that is quite possibly by design. When there are so many out to swindle the masses, why would they want to mention the possibility to think much less discern.

Beware - lack of discernment is dangerous to your health, happiness, physical and spiritual well being.

]]> by: steve martin http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44409 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:44:09 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44409 Jonathan Puddle, “Does our desire to worship elbow out our desire for self?” “Does our desire to obey nudge out our desire to do something right?” Interesting questions. I pondered them for a moment and then got the answer as I looked into a mirror. Nothing elbows out our desire for self, and doing something right IS obeying. We won't do that either. That's why He came. He knows He's a problem for us. We have a sickness unto death. But He is the Great Physician. He heals all our diseases. He has done it. Peace be upon you! - Steve Jonathan Puddle,

“Does our desire to worship elbow out our desire for self?” “Does our desire to obey nudge out our desire to do something right?”

Interesting questions. I pondered them for a moment and then got the answer as I looked into a mirror.

Nothing elbows out our desire for self, and doing something right IS obeying. We won’t do that either.

That’s why He came. He knows He’s a problem for us. We have a sickness unto death.

But He is the Great Physician. He heals all our diseases. He has done it. Peace be upon you!

- Steve

]]> by: Jonathan Puddle http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44395 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:44:13 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44395 In defense of reading books... lol... I have never had all this spelled out for me in a way I better grasp, that in Becoming a True Spiritual Community. The last couple of chapters I read were all about this. Becoming mystics, rather than managers. Living out of Christ... he raised some great questions like "Does our desire to worship elbow out our desire for self?" "Does our desire to obey nudge out our desire to do something right?" I've heard much of this my whole life... but only now am beginning to understand. In defense of reading books… lol… I have never had all this spelled out for me in a way I better grasp, that in Becoming a True Spiritual Community. The last couple of chapters I read were all about this. Becoming mystics, rather than managers. Living out of Christ… he raised some great questions like “Does our desire to worship elbow out our desire for self?” “Does our desire to obey nudge out our desire to do something right?”

I’ve heard much of this my whole life… but only now am beginning to understand.

]]> by: AnneDroid http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44394 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:05:04 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/2122#comment-44394 "We get so excited with and carried away by the next new idea, the next new leader, the next new book, the next new method....No more strategies. No more visions. No more methods. No more renovations, customizations, and tweak jobs. Please! Jesus is not a supplement to boost my quality of life..." Yep. I'm finished with all that and it will not bother me if I never attend another conference! I've also given up the hunt for the magic strategy or formula or the program that the Church is needing. And I used to fret so much about having the most carefully worked out, flawless doctrine with every t crossed and every i dotted. I'm finished with all that too. What I'm after now iis what's authentic, true, real, and to be living my faith in the world. The people i come into contact with every day aren't ever very likely to read Calvin's "Institutes" but they're reading me all the time. I want to be the love of God with skin on. “We get so excited with and carried away by the next new idea, the next new leader, the next new book, the next new method….No more strategies. No more visions. No more methods. No more renovations, customizations, and tweak jobs. Please! Jesus is not a supplement to boost my quality of life…”

Yep. I’m finished with all that and it will not bother me if I never attend another conference! I’ve also given up the hunt for the magic strategy or formula or the program that the Church is needing. And I used to fret so much about having the most carefully worked out, flawless doctrine with every t crossed and every i dotted. I’m finished with all that too.

What I’m after now iis what’s authentic, true, real, and to be living my faith in the world. The people i come into contact with every day aren’t ever very likely to read Calvin’s “Institutes” but they’re reading me all the time. I want to be the love of God with skin on.

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