WITH GOD DAILY - "Gifts vs. Giver"
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WITH GOD DAILY - "Gifts vs. Giver"
The cultural story of Humans is that God has an agenda. (Need Exists) The outcome of life is in doubt. (Failure Exists) You are separate from God. (Disunity Exists) There is not enough. (Insufficiency Exists) There is something you have to do. (Requirement Exists) If you do not do it, you will be punished. (Judgment Exists) The punishment is everla
... See moreNeale Donald Walsch • Communion with God (Conversations with God Series)
breaking open the either/or in which his hearers were stuck and pointing toward a deeper reality. Perhaps it’s time for God—whose image is on every human being and whose “inscription” is written across the pages of creation and the story of Israel—to receive his due.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Instead of looking to the things of the world as the deepest source of your contentment, you can enjoy them for what they are. Money and career, for example, become just what they are supposed to be. Work becomes work, a great way to use your gifts and be useful to others. Money becomes just money, a great way to support your family. But these thin
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Yet inside this discussion of alienation we can begin to see that eroding commitment has nothing directly to do with an excess of resources, a surplus of encouragement, or even an understanding of the mission. It has a much deeper source. Commitment is eroded because the overall lives of late-modern people are fundamentally disintegrated.