2 Corinthians 9-10
Be Generous
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
How awesome is that verse - we have all we need - so that we will abound in every good work - good works that [ephesians?] says we were made for called for to carry out, good work that God had prepared in advance for us to do :D SO GIVE, give generously, God will supply all you need and enough to do all the good he planned for you to do :D
Be Obedient
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Paul is nearing the end of the second letter that we have that wrote to the church in Corinth - a troubled church full of people who are boasting in the showiness of their worship, the extravagance of their freedom to sin, but also praised for their generosity and their passion for Jesus.
They become troublesome books cos people wish to base whole ways of churching or not churching based upon what is in them - and yet when I read it I see a church of extremes - so women are to be silent - worship is to be orderly - tongues are to be desired BUT used in the right way - men are to uncover their head - and we are to great one another with a holy kiss.
SO women have a role, and have always had a role in a church, and in churching and it is not to always be silent.
Worship IS to be orderly, but not heartless and unemotional, not so structured you squeeze anywhere for the spirit to move us.
Tongues are to be desired - but they are for personal edification and so not to be blurted out when we are churching - unless someone is there who can interrupt and thus, edify all the believers who are churching together.
Men [in fact all believers] are to dress modestly and in accordance with the way the society the church meets in says expressed respect and honour to God - and yet we all have a broader call to accept one another just the same way God accepted us - by becoming like us and doing for us what we could not do our selves and leading us gently into a relationship with him.
And we are to great one another in a HOLY manner - warmly, intimately, within the culture we inhabit, not just with a kiss.
Tonight - for the first time in about a month - the undercurrent of pain, of hurt, of hate, of disappointment and uncertainty - it's not there - I even did a test a moment ago - recalling the painful things of the recent time and no matter how hard I tried to feel it - I couldn't.
Praise be to God.
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
How awesome is that verse - we have all we need - so that we will abound in every good work - good works that [ephesians?] says we were made for called for to carry out, good work that God had prepared in advance for us to do :D SO GIVE, give generously, God will supply all you need and enough to do all the good he planned for you to do :D
Be Obedient
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Paul is nearing the end of the second letter that we have that wrote to the church in Corinth - a troubled church full of people who are boasting in the showiness of their worship, the extravagance of their freedom to sin, but also praised for their generosity and their passion for Jesus.
They become troublesome books cos people wish to base whole ways of churching or not churching based upon what is in them - and yet when I read it I see a church of extremes - so women are to be silent - worship is to be orderly - tongues are to be desired BUT used in the right way - men are to uncover their head - and we are to great one another with a holy kiss.
SO women have a role, and have always had a role in a church, and in churching and it is not to always be silent.
Worship IS to be orderly, but not heartless and unemotional, not so structured you squeeze anywhere for the spirit to move us.
Tongues are to be desired - but they are for personal edification and so not to be blurted out when we are churching - unless someone is there who can interrupt and thus, edify all the believers who are churching together.
Men [in fact all believers] are to dress modestly and in accordance with the way the society the church meets in says expressed respect and honour to God - and yet we all have a broader call to accept one another just the same way God accepted us - by becoming like us and doing for us what we could not do our selves and leading us gently into a relationship with him.
And we are to great one another in a HOLY manner - warmly, intimately, within the culture we inhabit, not just with a kiss.
Tonight - for the first time in about a month - the undercurrent of pain, of hurt, of hate, of disappointment and uncertainty - it's not there - I even did a test a moment ago - recalling the painful things of the recent time and no matter how hard I tried to feel it - I couldn't.
Praise be to God.
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