What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Just a little diddy Have you ever been involved with a logistical form of ministry (budgeting, announcements, committee planning sessions) and the super-spiritual person always interjects? This person has an uncanny ability to spot the good/evil aspect in every motion; every word; every thought. He is the one who shouts in the middle of a meeting: 'Satan, get out of this room!'. And he is also the one who always desires to pray when he meets you; to bless you with prophecies, and to speak in tongues to encourage you. What a weirdo, huh? Now, have you ever meticulously prayed everyday for a vision from God? Have you spent time developing your spiritual gifts, waiting in solitude for the still small voice of the Lord, or found the most wonderful way to worship that you can instantly experience His love and grace at the thought of giving praise? Then, the spiritually-voided-man dares to suggest that you may use developed strategies from the world to improve your capacity to function as a Christian. This person demonstrates tremendous skill at integrating business and marketing ideas into the church. He is the one who shouts in the middle of a meeting: 'We can do this better, if we can incorporate this business model." And everytime he sees you, he always wishes to talk 'shop' - about how we can improve the daily functions of the leaders, increase diligence in membership, and build more resources. What a weirdo, huh? How can we possibly over-spiritualize some form of ministries that are clearly not needing that much spirituality? How dare we wrap our human-designed strategies around a ministry that is clearly one of spiritual importance. Only fools would be stuck in this spectrum of spirituality where every ministry is assigned a level of the spirituality. I guess in the end, we're all weirdos, huh?
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[x] Space for God[x] Spirit of the Disciplines
[x] Genesee Diary
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[x] Soul Shaper
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RECOMMENDED READINGS
|y| A Generous Orthodoxy|y| A New Kind of Christian
|y| Chronicles of Narnia
|y| Divine Conspiracy
|y| Emerging Church
|y| God in the Alley
|y| How to read the Bible
|y| In His Steps
|y| In the Name of Jesus
|y| Jesus I never knew
|y| Out of the Question
|y| Planet Simpson
|y| Renewing the City
|y| Stumbling towards Faith
|y| Theology as Big as City
|y| Velvet Elvis
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[x] TCBC Leadership Class
[x] atom.XML
[x] mattmark
[x] spumoni
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[x] yomi
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[x] dragonX
[x] supa
[x] jedi master
[x] BUN in HK
[x] Arymis
[x] jon-c
[x] shubox
[x] TKo
[x] gee..why?
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[x] ching
[x] ajma
[x] rani
[x] tux
[x] lon
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[x] Uncle Simon
[x] davin
[x] frank
[x] Alex 1.0
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[x] lil'O
[x] the FOOs
[x] Waiki
[x] Vaness
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[x] godSIS
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[x] Nate
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