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I am ravenously hungry, yet completely satisfied.
I have died, yet I am truly alive.
I am suffering, yet I have never been more joyful.
I take up my cross daily, yet I live an abundant life.
I am a slave to righteousness, yet I have been set free.
I ask Holy Spirit to come, yet I thank Him that He is always in me.
I received Jesus without paying anything, yet it has cost me everything.
I will lay down my life, because I’ve found it.
After listening to a message by Rolland Baker I’ve come to the realization that I can live with contrasting ideas. That it’s okay to ask for more of Him even as I am filled with His fullness. As Rolland says, always look at both sides of the coin because God created both sides of the coin. People can preach so intensely and literally on one biblical concept that it gives no room for a contrasting notion that is also found in the Bible. For example, we know God is with the poor in spirit. But we know that those whom God is with, has been blessed with eternal riches and every spiritual blessing. So how does one reconcile poorness in spirit with richness in spirit? This is only one of the many contrasts that we find in the Christian life. And I believe that as we mature, we can internalize and apply two contrasting notions of any biblical concept in our lives.
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Without you, I am nothing.
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Oftentimes, conservative evangelical denominations label charismatic churches as dangerously emotional. There’s this view among many American Christians that being saved is merely an intellectual acknowledgement of the truth of Scripture, that emotions are not and should not be involved, and have no bearing on truth.
But where these conservative denomination err, is that they label encounters with Jesus as purely emotional experiences. Yes emotions are involved, but to say that those emotions are the be-all-end-all of the Spirit’s manifestations is merely taking things at face value.
The issue is that western church has long lost its ability to accept that there things that it cannot understand and cannot scientifically prove, such as the existence of the spiritual realm. (which is all over the Bible)
It’s not that the experiences are innately emotional in nature, it’s just that emotions are often capable of detecting things which the mind cannot. The encounter is spiritual, but our emotions pick up on it. Many describe their encounter with the Spirit with sudden inexplicable joy, or unexplainable weeping. Because what’s really going on is so outside the paradigm of western thinking, our minds cannot perceive of it. But our emotions are able to pick up on the deep transformation.
Many would label the so-called, “charismatics” and their experiences as abnormal Christianity. But if you really look at Acts, it’s not the “charismatics” that are abnormal, it’s actually churches that operate without the power of the Spirit that are abnormal.
How useful is a church without the Spirit?How useful is a Lamborghini without gas?
