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One thing that has struck us as we’ve talked about this issue as elders is the fact that we don’t talk about sacrifice that much, certainly early on in someone’s Christian life.
I think we have a tendancy to see sacrifice as something that increases incrementally with someone’s godliness – the more godly they are, then the more sacrifice they will encounter and be able to make. There’s a degree of common sense in this. Sacrifice is hard! But as the Spirit works and we grow more like Christ then we will surely increase in our capacity to face sacrifice in an enduring, Christ-like way.
There’s just one slight problem with this approach. It isn’t actually Christ-like. Read the rest of this entry »
Something that I’ve been wondering about for a while is the question of what makes our ‘gospel community’ different to other communities around us. Read the rest of this entry »
As the post below indicates, we’ve just had a new addition to our family – a beautiful baby girl – Eleanor.
This morning I was reading the post below. It’s heart warming, tear jerking, and challenging. The thing that most struck me was the question that I need to ask myself – how selfish am I really willing to be for Eleanor? If she never smiles back at me, will I still endure the sleepless nights for her?
Have a read yourself…
http://takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com/2009/04/yesterday-we-lost-member-of-our-church.html
Introducing little Eleanor…
This recently appeared on the Desiring God website (John Piper’s…)
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1406_Ordinary_Life_with_Gospel_Intentionality/
(Author: David Mathis)
A pair of Brits have a provocative book appearing in the States this month. Tim Chester and Steve Timmis published Total Church in the UK last year, and enough readers here have found it helpful to prompt Crossway Books and Mark Driscoll’s Resurgence ministry to pick up the title in the Re:Lit series. You can watch Tim Chester introduce the book at Crossway’s blog.
Chester’s and Timmis’s refrain for what they are advocating in the book is “ordinary life with gospel intentionality.” They make a case for the church’s need to exercise “dual fidelity” to the content of the spoken gospel and the context of a relational community.
Tim Chester kindly agreed to answer a few questions below for the DG blog. Read the rest of this entry »
