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What’s His is Mine!

October 26, 2010 by Fritz

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ – Acts 13:47

Paul took a scripture from Isaiah 49:6 which clearly referred to the work of Christ, and He  proclaimed it was God’s calling to him, personally!

Can we do that? Yes!

Paul knew that those joined to Christ by faith are part of Christ in actuality.1

What belongs to us also now belongs Christ – our sins, griefs, shortcomings.2  Jesus embraced them and took them to his cross.  Likewise, what belongs to Christ is now ours3 – his payment for our sins, his resurrection, his fellowship with the Father, his anointing with the Holy Spirit, his seat on the throne.  This even includes his call to ministry.  Christ now lives his life through us (though not exclusively through any one of us); not just for our benefit but for those he came to save.4

– fritz
1 – 1st Corinthians 6:17, Ephesians 5:30
2 – 2nd Corinthians 5:21
3 – Romans 8:32, 1st Corinthians 3:22
4 – 1st John 4:17

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>Empty of Evil

October 25, 2010 by Fritz

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“When a corrupting spirit is expelled … it says, ‘I’ll go back to my old haunt.’ On return, it finds the person swept and dusted, but vacant. It then … rounds up seven other spirits … and they all move in…That person ends up far worse” – Jesus (Luke 11:24-26 Message)

Being empty of evil is not enough, we must be full of good.

Not doing wrong doesn’t ultimately help, we must do right.

Read the Bible, go to church, pray daily, let God fill up your life with his goodness, let him guide you how to do good things.

– fritz

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Book Review: Giving Church Another Chance by Todd Hunter

October 24, 2010 by Fritz

Giving Church Another Chance by Todd Hunter – I responded quickly, a free book by an interesting man in exchange for an honest review on my blog – what a deal.

The author was a former Vineyard pastor, now Anglican priest, and I wanted to know why and see what he had to say. I had been reading his blog for a while investigating his involvement in a new kind of church revival movement, so I was eager to participate.

The first third of his book was good; expressing his spiritual journey, and providing some ideas and concepts I, too had felt. After that, however, the book turned dry for me as he went through the different parts of a typical Anglican worship service giving various thoughts about how each part of the liturgy ought to touch us in our daily lives.

I think the biggest problem I had with his book was that I thought it promised to show me how to “repractice” Church (“repractice” is his term for doing something again with renewed meaning), but as I looked there was no renewed meaning – nothing had really changed.

To be honest, he had a herculean task. I, too, attend a similar denomination. I appreciate the different parts of the liturgy and usually find them a blessing but I believe everyone must find that appreciation uniquely for themselves.

“The heart koweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.” – Proverbs 14:10

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