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- Up very late; large cooked breakfast. Off to Anglsey Abbey
with Kate and Matthew, wandered around the gardens - very
pleasant. Back home. M&K left for London.
- Did a little work, much pain-filled packaging action. A
pleasant cheesy lunch.
- Listened to an interesting Gordon sermon;
- Palm Sunday, riding into Jerusalem
on a donkey, how Solomon
rode into Jerusalem on his Father's, the King's mule.
- Jesus on the other hand, arrived on one
which no-man had ever ridden (cf. Mark).
- Solomen's first priority was to build
a temple for God; which was
filled by the Holy spirit.
- Jesus' 1st went to the new temple & overturned
the money-changers tables, who had turned it into a den of
robbers, and rejected it. It was then that the leadership
determined to find a way to put him to death.
- But, Jesus would yet build his temple - the people
of God; the Holy Spirit, given at pentecost - making believers
themselves temples of the Holy Spirit.
- Back to spiritual gifts -
1 Cor. 12 vs. 7 Now to each one the
manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common
good. - at least 20+ gifts. The gifts are not
about us, but God, Jesus continuing his ministry, still
at work amongst us.
- Gifts are not static; they are the
'love languages' (cf. Dr. Chapman) of Jesus showing his
love through the church. We get tunnel vision seeing
some gifts almost to the exclusion to the others. Some
churches / denominations take eg. Teaching, Tounges,
Healing, Evangelism to extremes, and miss the others.
- You can't be a free-lance christian /
spouse - you have to do it with others;
- Some say: I must be the 'tail bone'
of the body of Christ, to be sat on - but Paul only
mentions the big, useful parts, of the body.
- Looking at 3 gifts;
- 'those able to help others'; a very general
term. Paul helped in his writing, hospitality, financial
assistance; things that need to be done - need help.
- 'gifts of administration' - a nautical term,
steering the ship; a leadership gift, making things
happen. Servant leadership.
- vs. 8. 'message of wisdom / knowledge' -
the terms are used very much interchangably in scripture,
sometimes used contrastedly as here. Charles Spurgeon: Wisdom
is the right use of knowledge; there is no fool so great a fool
as a knowing fool.. Wisdom sometimes used as 'skill' - Job
expects people to gain wisdom with age. If anyone lacks
wisdom he should ask God who gives generously. Biblical
wisdom is un-common sense.
- In
1 Cor. 3:16-23 the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
The wisdom of this world doesn't know what to do with the cross.
| The world's wisdom | God's wisdom |
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| You have to believe in yourself |
He who trusts in himself is a fool.
Prov 28:26 |
| You need to forgive yourself |
He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but
whoever confesses and renounces them he is the one who
finds mercy
Prov 28:13 |
| The squeaky wheel gets the grease |
Philippians 2:14
do everything without complaining and arguing |
| Buy now pay later |
Romans 13:8
Owe no-one anything, except to love one-another |
| Get the other guy before he gets you |
Romans 12:21
do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good |
| If he hasn't changed by now, he never will; you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
That may be true of old dogs; but it's not true of new creatures. If anyone is in Christ
he is a new creature, the old has gone, the new has come.
2 Cor 5:17 |
- The gift is the message not keeping it to
yourself, but sharing it; make love your aim and so earnestly
desire the greater gifts. (1 Cor 14:1
- Challenging indeed.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
