We've got so much to talk about Thursday night. Hope you can join us. We want to hear from JD about the meeting at SMU in April. We can continue our discussion of Tickle's book, The Great Emergence (see the post from April 13th, below, for details and links to resources.) Then J.D. has two interesting posts we can discuss - see his posts from May 9, Faith and Torture, and May 18, Worrying about Tomorrow. Finally, Emergent Village is undergoing change and we can share what we know/think about that.
That's more than we can cover in a couple of hours, but it is a good way to get started on the summer. Bring your calendars and we'll set our summer schedule for June, July and August.
We'll meet at 7:00 PM at Escape. Directions are listed in the right hand column of this blog.
3 comments:
Worry is a block that we put between ourselves and God. It may keep Him from being able to answer our prayers.
I recently realized that I was doing this with a conern I have about my daughter and her marriage.
Worry is definitely counter-productive. But I don't think it limits God as much as it limits us. To the extent that worry fills our time and keeps us from being God's hands and feet in taking positive action, worry blocks what we could be doing through God. Your thoughts?
You are correct. God is all powerful. He is free to do whatever he wants, in spite of anything we may do. However, he does give us freewill and desires that we have faith in him before he will answer out requests. Worry can be a definite block to faith.
I have found that things do better for me in life when I die to self. Sometimes this can be very difficult to do. Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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