| all good bible teaching and preaching comes down to this:
go the word and think about it and pray over it and study it and pray over it...
...until it BURNS you.
then you're ready to speak for God.
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| "Practical help for unbelievers without a LONGING and INTENT that it lead to relief from everlasting suffering is not love."
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| James 2:1-4http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4076585
This is an interesting article from ESPN which covers Randy and Paula White and their “ministry” to sports stars. "In the early to mid-1990s, White said, he frequently placed the professional athletes in his church on a pedestal, parading them for the benefit of starstruck members. Athletes were given the option of preferential parking, preferred front-row seating and private time with the Whites, something that became increasingly rare for regular church members as the Whites’ collective star rose in the world of Christian televangelism. ”
"My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, 'You sit here in a good place,' and say to the poor man, 'You stand there,' or 'Sit here at my footstool,' have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?"
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| "be Bible SATURATEDnot just Bible BASED - meaning i stand on the bible and talk about something else" ~ John Piper you can stand on the bible. talk about how great it is. love it and not meditate on it or ever get deep into it. you can be a nominal 'bible-lover'
dont DO THAT! be a REAL BIBLE LOVER. Get INTIMATE with it. Soak it in. Love it. pour over it. read it for hours. Beg God to make it real to you. Beg Him to do a work in your heart. read and read and read and read. eat it up like it's sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, like it's more precious than gold, than TV, than sports, than movies, than sex, than ANYTHING. God's given you His very THOUGHTS! ON PAPER! we should be obsessed. but we don't really believe that that's what it is. |
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| "Jesus didn't give you His grace to help you build your personal kingdom. He gives it to you to invite you to a better one." ~ Paul Tripp |
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