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The God of Community
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6 min read
18. For God’s greatest activity is in the form of community, as small as twos and threes. I’m going to get right to the point with you. Our primary concern is off base and our solutions are bad. The church is getting it’s view of redemption wrong, which makes it impossible to fix our problem of…
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A Faith Which Imprisons God
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5 min read
17. By faith alone imprisons a God of redemption without transformation or enfleshed mission. I never really understood the idea of justification by faith alone. At one level it made sense, I guess. Reading Paul alongside the Jesus revealed in the gospels, it sorta sounds like that. Believe in Jesus and you’re good. And as…
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Belief Is More Than What You Think
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7 min read
16. The unembodied faith of the mind is a prison, ensnaring the souls of all people, even God! Faith is not the contents of your mind. Despite what many of the faithful demand of each other. Or what the faithless think we believe. Belief isn’t a set of words or rational arguments. Faith isn’t a statement…
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A Prison of Isolation
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6 min read
15. Nor is freedom from people anything but a prison of isolation. We sat in Joe’s arguing over greasy food in a debate over which is more important. Deep down, I knew Jen and I didn’t disagree. Not really. The argument wasn’t real. It was semantic. The heat generated from the friction of our altruism. The…
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14. God cares no more for the true acts of piety than the empty if no one is made free. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom!Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord;I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams…
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Not Faith Alone
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6 min read
13. The indulgences Luther despised were no more dangerous to souls than elevating faith alone. Nearly 500 years ago, Martin Luther (may have) pounded a piece of paper to a church door. A mighty symbolic act of strangely low significance. Imagine hammering your own theses on your church door. It might spark a local stir,…