Prayer Gets Us In On

I Cannot Fail To Call The Congregation To Worship God, To Listen To His Word, To Offer Themselves To God.

Church Is The Textured Context In Which We Grow Up In Christ To Maturity. But Church Is Difficult. Sooner Or Later, Though, If We Are Serious About Growing Up In Christ, We Have To Deal With Church. I Say Sooner.

The Spirit Works Through Community. Somebody Will Have A Stupid, Screwy Idea. That's Okay. The Point Of Having Creeds And Confessions And Traditions Is To Keep Us In Touch With The Obvious Errors.

One Way To Define Spiritual Life Is Getting So Tired And Fed Up With Yourself You Go On To Something Better, Which Is Following Jesus.

When We Submit Our Lives To What We Read In Scripture, We Find That We Are Not Being Led To See God In Our Stories But Our Stories In God's. God Is The Larger Context And Plot In Which Our Stories Find Themselves.