At the wedding I attended on Sunday one of the readings was the passage God used to call me into full time ministry. It made me so pleased to remember that day and some of what he has done since. I couldn't have dreamed of any of it. It is all of him, all of grace. He has done immeasurably more than I could have asked or imagined.
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This morning's blog comes with an urgent appeal to make room for Jesus' words. Not in the sense of hearing them only - that is clearly pointless and useless - but in doing them. People who look like Christians, who self-identify as Christians, but who don't do what he said need to know they are in terrible danger. They may well be demonstrating that they are following desires from Satan.
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the temptation is to organise our lives to accomplish seeing and experiencing as many things as possible. Or to organise it so as to maximise my potential, self-worth or ambitions. I know that temptation. Its a packed world, so many places to see and things to do. Ross' comment is that people who live like this never commit long term large portions of their life to any one thing for fear of missing out on something else. Therefore the cause of world missions is greatly damaged because there are so many places in the world where it is only possible to have an impact for Jesus by long term (sometimes life long) loving and relating well to people.
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