unfulfillment, dissatisfaction with Jesus and His imputed worthiness.  Self-awareness and self-acceptance are the biggest needs in the Church today, but the problem goes unrecognized by the vast majority of Christian leaders, who themselves live in denial of their unhappiness, unfulfillment, dissatisfaction with Jesus and His imputed worthiness, ever striving, never content, blinded by ministry idolatry. …

No humility.  Humility is required for dialog, compromise.  Pride is clear-sighted about the weakness/sin of the opposition, but blind to my own weakness/sin.  Pride fuels war, ISIS, superpower status.  While pride ridicules the opposition, humility respects the opposition, listens to the opposition, attempts to understand them, find common ground. Wonderful opportunity for Christians to be…

The happiest people in this world. http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-happiest-people-in-the-world?fb_action_ids=10153716708383312&fb_action_types=og.shares WeakDave, in his saner moments, in awe of the genius plan of Jesus

in missions, in churchplanting, in local-church ministry?  Or are we just like any other human organization, planning and managing by objective, operating by human power, doing what human power can do — the possible? We don’t need Jesus for the possible.  Don’t need His power, don’t need to depend on Him.  Leaning on our own…

The Pharisees so dumbed down the law and sin, that living for God was possible.  Like a six-foot high jump you train to conquer.  But Jesus raised the bar to sixteen feet, and you can’t use a pole.  Impossible.  The Pharisees were pseudo-obedient, pseudo-followers of God.  Humanly possible. Have we in the Church, also dumbed…

Abortion?  Prostitution?  Drugs?  Sins of rank heathen?  No.  Listen. “The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself – the Lord God Almighty declares, ‘I abhor the pride [independence] of Jacob [believers] and detest his fortresses [self-reliance].’”  Amos 6:8 The Pharisees of Jesus’ day didn’t get it, and neither do we believers today.  WE are the problem. …

My flesh thinks I’ll find love from accomplishing.  Love from others, love from self.  But this is conditional love.  Selfish.  Prideful.  And the flesh is a bottomless pit of need — it will never be satisfied through performance-based, conditional love.  Self-contempt-avoidance becomes the defining motivation on the fleshly path to happiness.  Ever striving, never arriving. …

is that pre-believers just think, “Dave’s a great guy.”  They are not wowed by Jesus, but by me.  They will only be wowed by the Jesus in me, if they know the real me.  They will only know the real me if I invite them into the closet of my soul, to discover the real…

of us believers.  We are the lords of our lives.  We know what’s best for ourselves and others.  So we want You to bless our plans/agenda for ministry.  Our joy and peace depend on our circumstances, how our ministry is going, how well we’re obeying, or trusting, all about us, instead of Your enjoyment of…

the power of a preacher being the chief confessor.  For those of you who didn’t see this on my Facebook page. http://vimeo.com/61121978# Evangelical delusion. Grace is for failures. –WeakDave, trying to promote the impossibility of following Jesus in the power of me To receive my weekly updates, email me, or search for GospelFriendships (one word)…