Comments on: Partnering with the Unholy http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/09/08/partnering-with-the-unholy/ Let these stones be a witness to what we have done here this day. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lilly http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/09/08/partnering-with-the-unholy/#comment-16138 Lilly Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:49:06 +0000 http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/?p=1796#comment-16138 I don't generally comment but felt led to on this subject. In our youth Sunday School we are teaching a series called 'Design for Discipleship'. My highschool class just finished up the first section of the first book and we were challenged to briefly describe where we are in our journey of knowing God as our Father. The end of my personal notes stated that I am striving to be a disciple in His name by giving love to others. I know loving God isn't done by sitting on a couch or in a chair. As a Sunday School teacher leading our youth, I search for the answer to where do we as a church fail? I know I was raised in a church environment that was dedicated more to the members than the outside world. How do we change this? How do we recondition our thoughts? I believe the answer is "I" have to get off the couch and out of the chair. And I, is everyone one of us! I don’t generally comment but felt led to on this subject. In our youth Sunday School we are teaching a series called ‘Design for Discipleship’. My highschool class just finished up the first section of the first book and we were challenged to briefly describe where we are in our journey of knowing God as our Father. The end of my personal notes stated that I am striving to be a disciple in His name by giving love to others. I know loving God isn’t done by sitting on a couch or in a chair.

As a Sunday School teacher leading our youth, I search for the answer to where do we as a church fail? I know I was raised in a church environment that was dedicated more to the members than the outside world. How do we change this? How do we recondition our thoughts? I believe the answer is “I” have to get off the couch and out of the chair. And I, is everyone one of us!

]]> By: Michael http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/2009/09/08/partnering-with-the-unholy/#comment-16137 Michael Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:48:24 +0000 http://www.twelvewitnesses.com/?p=1796#comment-16137 The two go hand in hand. It is impossible to have one without the other. We cannot have a "private, personal faith" that is "between me and God" as our culture wants us to believe...and as now seemingly many church goers believe while not having a transfomed life when to comes to how we interact with others. And yes, that was a run-on sentence! The ten commandments-4 about us and God, 6 about us and everyone else Greatest commandment?-Mt 22, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself Put on your steel-toed boots and read John's epistles!-1 Jn 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. The bible does not give us the option of having a set of beliefs and truths with no effect on our lives and relationship with others (see James). This is the cry of the lost, the lazy, the lukewarm...but not those redemmed by Him who truly know Him. Its not something we have to do like a check off to-do list...its what the indwelling Spirit does in us! The two go hand in hand. It is impossible to have one without the other. We cannot have a “private, personal faith” that is “between me and God” as our culture wants us to believe…and as now seemingly many church goers believe while not having a transfomed life when to comes to how we interact with others. And yes, that was a run-on sentence!

The ten commandments-4 about us and God, 6 about us and everyone else

Greatest commandment?-Mt 22, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself

Put on your steel-toed boots and read John’s epistles!-1 Jn 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

The bible does not give us the option of having a set of beliefs and truths with no effect on our lives and relationship with others (see James). This is the cry of the lost, the lazy, the lukewarm…but not those redemmed by Him who truly know Him. Its not something we have to do like a check off to-do list…its what the indwelling Spirit does in us!

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