Seeking & Sharing Christ
Let Nothing disturb you,
Nothing dismay you;
All things are passing;
God Never changes.
Patient endurance
Attains all that it strives for;
Those who have God
Find they lack nothing.
God Alone suffices.
-- St. Theresa of Avila, from The Pilgrim Prayerbook: New Addition
The gift of the Spirit is the gift of becoming involved in mission, for mission is the direct consequence of the outpouring of the Spirit.
-- David Bosch, Transforming Mission
Where the Spirit is poured out on the church, it sweeps the believers along as though in a great river of obedience, praise, and mighty works. Empowered by the Spirit, the community can dare and hope great things, seeing visions, dreaming dreams, turning the world upside down... Where the Spirit is ...
Language is a gift that can be use thoughtfullly or thoughtlessly, humbly or proudly. Someone constantly aware of the presence of God will know when and how to speak.
-- Columbia Stewart, Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition
However much we may wish it otherwise, when we receive the spirit at conversion, divine perfection does not set in, but divine "infection" does! We have been invaded by the living God himself, in the person of his Spirit, whose goal is to infect us thoroughly with God's own likeness. ...
Faith in God is an experience that lives and grows by praise. There is continual spiral reinforcement: praising God helps us to appreciate what one is praising God for.
-- David F. Ford and Daniel W. Hardy, Living in Praise: Worshipping and Knowing God
When I am baptized or converted by the gospel, the Holy Spirit is present. He takes me as clay and makes of me a new creature, which is endowed with a different mind, heart, and thoughts, that is, with a true knowledge of God and a sincere trust in God's grace....The very essence of my h...
The Spirit gives different Christians different gifts...but he works to produce the same fruit in all.
-- John Stott, Baptism and Fullness
The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice. --God
-- Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
