Sublime

Ministry creates an ontological event of sharing; it is ministry that brings union to hypostasis.

He’d cultivated one of the heart’s most precious qualities: wherever he went, he connected powerfully to the world with love. And people responded.

Now they told David, “The Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.” 2David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” 3But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Ke

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

It asserted that ministry is the very event that unveils God’s action in the world. This is not because it is the rubbing of some bottle that brings God forth like a genie, but rather because God is a minister, constantly and continually acting in the world to minister new life out of death. God calls human ministers to echo God’s own personhood by

CARRYING OUT GOD’S PURPOSE A merciful man aims at his neighbour’s good and so does “God’s will,” consciously co-operating with “the simple good.” A cruel man oppresses his neighbour, and so does simple evil. But in doing such evil, he is used by God, without his own knowledge or consent, to produce the complex good—so that the first man serves God

SO BE WISE AS SERPENTS AND INNOCENT AS DOVES. —MATTHEW 10:16

the hands of a man like Hitler, power is exploited and turned to ends which make for havoc and misery; but this should not cause us to ignore the basic soundness of the theory upon which he operated. A man’s conviction that he is God’s child automatically tends to shift the basis of his relationship with all his fellows. He recognizes at once that