Sometimes in our walk with God, we get upset and frustrated with him. Most of the time, our frustrations are when we lack his knowledge of our past, present, and future circumstances. It produces doubt and fear, keeping us away from protection He lavishes on us. The following set of verses are from a song called "Anglez" off of Shai Linne's debut album The Solus Christus Project. This portion is performed by Timothy Brindle, taking on the persona of an angel ministering to a young man who is wrestling with his faith. Be encouraged!
Since man's seldom seeing;
the truth he can't tell-so hear from this angelic being.
A divine messenger;
and I don't resemble chubby babies with wings. That's a lying replica.
I'm a ministering spirit who serves Christ,
and those who will inherit internal life.
I've seen all the days of history.
Yet I'm still gazing into this amazing mystery;
That God would make humans from dirt.
And after removing their curse make them a beautiful church.
Have you seen in the Heavens to behold His son;
In the immediate presence of the Holy One?
Nah, be thankful kid,
Cause sinful humans are unable to see His glorious face and live.
And if you're in terror when seeing me,
How much more will you be scared of the Deity who created me?
That's why cherubim and seraphim wouldn't dare to sin
"Cause they're scared of Him after peering at His face.
And no angel has experienced grace.
And if I sinned, He wouldn't have saved me.
Consider His goodness, you shouldn't be angry.
You've lived violently with pride and greed.
I've lived entirely with piety
in compliancy to His dynasty;
Yet no Messiah has ever died for me.
See, I'm right with God 'cause I'm sinless.
Men are right with God from forgiveness.
I've been shouting His praises for thousands of ages.
I bow at amazement at His power and patience.
Yet I've encountered He's gracious;
Instead of Him devouring pagans, He's vowing to save them.
Italians and Asians, bountiful nations
will worship with me, though I never doubted His cadence.
And don't be mad at Him because Adam sinned,
Us angels bugged out, He didn't smash him then.
Yeah it's true He allowed the fall of man,
But He used it now to exalt the Lamb.
The Lord who's wise permits existence of sin
to be glorified in His forgiveness of men.
So listen my friend-your complaints are many.
If anything be amazed that He's saving any.
Yeah, you confess the Lord
but those who truly profess are pure. Make your election sure
Are you saved or not, you're faced with a choice,
So please repent and make us angels rejoice.
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What's the Gospel?
Here's a creative way of explaining the Gospel by Lampmode artist Shai Linne.....
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Make Disciples
This is an exerpt from John Piper and Desiring God Ministries
Discipleship and Death to Self
....The most important word I think that Jesus ever said about becoming a disciple was Luke 14:27, "Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Bearing a cross does not mean primarily having hard times. It means going to Golgotha. It means dying with Christ- dying to the old attitudes of envy and strife and jealousy and anger and selfisheness and pride; and turning to follow Jesus in newness of life. When we make disciples, we bid them to come and die to their old and destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who loved them and gave himself for them.
Discipleship and Death to Self
....The most important word I think that Jesus ever said about becoming a disciple was Luke 14:27, "Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Bearing a cross does not mean primarily having hard times. It means going to Golgotha. It means dying with Christ- dying to the old attitudes of envy and strife and jealousy and anger and selfisheness and pride; and turning to follow Jesus in newness of life. When we make disciples, we bid them to come and die to their old and destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who loved them and gave himself for them.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Grace Before Judgement
Matthew 28:18-20
18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
God is so amazing! His grace is beyond our imaginations! Matthew 24:14 states: "14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." God's grace and mercy will allow all nations, tribes, and tongues the opportunity to hear the gospel! How fair of a God is he to hold his final judgement so that all nations get the chance to hear the gospel! This includes remote villages on remote islands, monks on top of Mount Everest, or countries being ravaged by wars! The gospel will be spread!
This is pleasing to hear because this implies that the saints of God will preach the gospel and go through amazing trials and tribulations in order to get the good news out. Maybe the greatest implication is that God trusts his saints to do so, because this will be all done through his sheep! What an honor! I see why we are to love the Lord with all of our minds and strength. We will miss the honor of partaking in this grand plan because we will still be caught up with the ways of this world. Salvation is a spiritual manifestation of the gospel: grace before judgement. What an awesome God!
18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
God is so amazing! His grace is beyond our imaginations! Matthew 24:14 states: "14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." God's grace and mercy will allow all nations, tribes, and tongues the opportunity to hear the gospel! How fair of a God is he to hold his final judgement so that all nations get the chance to hear the gospel! This includes remote villages on remote islands, monks on top of Mount Everest, or countries being ravaged by wars! The gospel will be spread!
This is pleasing to hear because this implies that the saints of God will preach the gospel and go through amazing trials and tribulations in order to get the good news out. Maybe the greatest implication is that God trusts his saints to do so, because this will be all done through his sheep! What an honor! I see why we are to love the Lord with all of our minds and strength. We will miss the honor of partaking in this grand plan because we will still be caught up with the ways of this world. Salvation is a spiritual manifestation of the gospel: grace before judgement. What an awesome God!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Missio Dei
Missio dei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFGuTClBuZs
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Missio Dei is a Latin Christian theological term that can be translated as the "sending of God." Mission is understood as being derived from the very nature of God. The missionary initiative comes from God alone.
In 1934, Karl Hartenstein, a German missiologist, coined the phrase in response to Karl Barth and his emphasis on actio Dei (Latin for “the action of God”).
When kept in the context of the Scriptures, missio Dei correctly emphasizes that God is the initiator of His mission to redeem through the Church a special people for Himself from all of the peoples (τα εθνη) of the world. He sent His Son for this purpose and He sends the Church into the world with the message of the gospel for the same purpose.[1]
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God. "It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church."[2] There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. The Church must not think its role is identical to the missio Dei; the Church is participating in the mission of God. The church's mission is a subset of a larger whole mission. That is, it is part of God's mission to the world and not the entirety of God's work in the world.
During the past half a century or so there has been a subtle but nevertheless decisive shift toward understanding mission as God’s mission. During preceding centuries mission was understood in a variety of ways. Sometimes it was interpreted primarily in soteriological terms: as saving individuals from eternal damnation. Or it was understood in cultural terms: as introducing people from East and the South to the blessings and privileges of the Christian West. Often it was perceived in ecclesiastical categories: as the expansion of the church (or of a specific denomination). Sometimes it was defined salvation-historically: as the process by which the world—evolutionary or by means of a cataclysmic event—would be transformed into the kingdom of God. In all these instances, and in various, frequently conflicting ways, the intrinsic interrelationship between christology, soteriology, and the doctrine of the Trinity, so important for the early church, was gradually displaced by one of several versions of the doctrine of grace …Mission was understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It was thus put in the context of the doctrine of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine on the missio Dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit was expanded to include yet another “movement”: The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit sending the church into the world. As far as missionary thinking was concerned, this linking with the doctrine of the Trinity constituted an important innovation …Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. Not least since the missionary initiative comes from God alone … Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God’s love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.[3]
Peters states that the Bible claims “the end result of such missio Dei is the glorification of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”[4]
Missio Dei as a term and concept became increasingly popular in the church from the second half of the 20th century and is a key concept in missiology being used by theologians such as David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin, Alan Roxburgh, David Dunbar, Martin Robinson and William Storrar as well as missional networks such as the Gospel and Culture Network, Forge Mission Training Network Australia, Together in Mission UK, and the Allelon Foundation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFGuTClBuZs
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Missio Dei is a Latin Christian theological term that can be translated as the "sending of God." Mission is understood as being derived from the very nature of God. The missionary initiative comes from God alone.
In 1934, Karl Hartenstein, a German missiologist, coined the phrase in response to Karl Barth and his emphasis on actio Dei (Latin for “the action of God”).
When kept in the context of the Scriptures, missio Dei correctly emphasizes that God is the initiator of His mission to redeem through the Church a special people for Himself from all of the peoples (τα εθνη) of the world. He sent His Son for this purpose and He sends the Church into the world with the message of the gospel for the same purpose.[1]
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God. "It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church."[2] There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. The Church must not think its role is identical to the missio Dei; the Church is participating in the mission of God. The church's mission is a subset of a larger whole mission. That is, it is part of God's mission to the world and not the entirety of God's work in the world.
During the past half a century or so there has been a subtle but nevertheless decisive shift toward understanding mission as God’s mission. During preceding centuries mission was understood in a variety of ways. Sometimes it was interpreted primarily in soteriological terms: as saving individuals from eternal damnation. Or it was understood in cultural terms: as introducing people from East and the South to the blessings and privileges of the Christian West. Often it was perceived in ecclesiastical categories: as the expansion of the church (or of a specific denomination). Sometimes it was defined salvation-historically: as the process by which the world—evolutionary or by means of a cataclysmic event—would be transformed into the kingdom of God. In all these instances, and in various, frequently conflicting ways, the intrinsic interrelationship between christology, soteriology, and the doctrine of the Trinity, so important for the early church, was gradually displaced by one of several versions of the doctrine of grace …Mission was understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It was thus put in the context of the doctrine of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine on the missio Dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit was expanded to include yet another “movement”: The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit sending the church into the world. As far as missionary thinking was concerned, this linking with the doctrine of the Trinity constituted an important innovation …Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. Not least since the missionary initiative comes from God alone … Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God’s love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.[3]
Peters states that the Bible claims “the end result of such missio Dei is the glorification of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”[4]
Missio Dei as a term and concept became increasingly popular in the church from the second half of the 20th century and is a key concept in missiology being used by theologians such as David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin, Alan Roxburgh, David Dunbar, Martin Robinson and William Storrar as well as missional networks such as the Gospel and Culture Network, Forge Mission Training Network Australia, Together in Mission UK, and the Allelon Foundation.
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