Everywhere You Look, Ch.6: The Same Team, pt.2
Being part of the same team means moving from isolation to awareness, polarization to curiosity, and fragmentation to integration.
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Paul
Everywhere You Look, Ch.6: The Same Team, pt.1
Church divisions, particularly those that mirror the divisions in society, make the gospel a lie. If we vilify our fellow Christians and create a community based on a mutual dislike of the other, then what do we have to offer the world as an alternative way of being.
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Everywhere You Look, Ch.4: The Megachurch Next Door, pt.1
The question is whether the church is about a performance or about a community.
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Everywhere You Look, Chapter 3: The Magic of Paying Attention, pt.2
We must listen before we become active. He names this active listening before being programmatically active as “sacred curiosity.” Too often, he writes, we are helpful without being curious. We seek to provide answers without first actually figuring out the questions.
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2 Peter 3:14-18, The Conclusion
he reason these teachers must be avoided, however, is because they will prevent us from growing in the knowledge and grace of Jesus Christ. This is our goal, and anything that interferes with this goal must be avoided.
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2 Peter 2, False Teachers
in these verses we have the most violent and colourfully expressed tirade in the New Testament.
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2 Peter 1:12-21, Peter’s Testimony
Peter is telling us that we will know from our own experience when Jesus returns in glory because Peter had this same experience at the Transfiguration. We must be patient in our expectations.
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2 Peter 1:5-11, Christian Virtue
If 2 Peter 1:4 is the heart of the gospel message, then 2 Peter 1:5-8 is the heart of the response to that message.
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1 Peter 5 – The Final Words
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you that are in Christ.
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1 Peter 5 – Church Leadership
Tend the flock of God that is your charge, not by constraint but willingly, not for shameful gain but eagerly, not as domineering over those in your charge but being examples to the flock.
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