Category: Gospel Living
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That causes other believers and pre-believers around me, to want what I have, because He’s so awesome that nothing else hardly matters to me? So I have an other-worldly humility, and an other-worldly love for others, especially those whose values are opposite of mine? So I operate in out-of-character-for-Dave kinda ways? Self-forgetting/uninhibited? Or is my…
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I sit behind the steering wheel, like God Himself, assuming I know the way, know good turns from bad. Is it any wonder that life is so hard for me? Boy this driving job seemed like a fairly easy one, but now I’m feeling pressure: like someone completely out of his element. Sometimes fearful, sometimes…
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is the curse of the human condition since Adam and Eve. Humans live in denial of how consumed we are with human accomplishment, somebodiness. Not just pre-believers, but we believers too. Materialism is only one facet of the problem. Believers of modest means are also eaten up with feeling good about self, having some performance…
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and wooing me onto LIFE in Jesus. How? By lovingly thwarting my attempts at independence. It’s harrrd when my plans/agenda are thwarted, but it’s good harrrd, needful harrrd, because the biggest deal in town, is being retrained to live and work out of communion with Jesus. DependentDave. DumbSheepDave. Ahhh. Whatever it takes, Lord. I want…
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in my less-sane moments, is that I know what’s best, for me, and those I love. Without this confidence, it would be impossible for me to be the agendified, control-freak perfectionist I am, impossible for me to be intense, hurried, worried, frustrated, or discouraged. New blog address: dumbsheepdave.com Jesus came to rescue me from myself,…
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unless I’ve been freshly convicted of my sin, and typically, my sin of independence/shepherdness/self-confidence/orphan-ness/self-reliance. And I find that others aren’t wowed by the Jesus in me, if I’m not freshly wowed by Jesus, and His salvation of me, His righteousness imputed to me. Especially pre-believers. Fixing my eyes and thoughts on Jesus doesn’t seem to…
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Jack Miller used to say that the difference between what would happen normally, and what happens with an infusion of grace, that difference, is the glory of God. So if we believers are known by the watching world for being the proudest, most self-righteous, poorest lovers of those most different from ourselves, and then are…
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In other words, is He enough for me? Or when I run to him with a problem, do I use Him, to get my way: want Him to fix it according to my agenda? Or do I confess to Him, that He’s only enough for me, when He fixes my problems according to my agenda? …
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God’s problem, God’s job. Wow. I can’t tell you what a bombshell this has been for me. Maybe obvious to you, and I feel a bit silly for feeling so profoundly impacted by such an obvious statement, but over the past month, this has been changing my life, and I can only conclude that it’s…
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Proclaiming the Gospel today, requires a different approach than in Paul’s day. Seems to me. Why? Two thousand years of people all over the world, hearing about Christians and Christianity, with many negative opinions formed about us, most with justification. What worked for Paul, doesn’t work today, with most audiences. If Paul were here today,…
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