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By Kary Oberbrunner
What Does It suggest to Be on this planet yet now not of It? the reply may possibly shock You. Christ-followers are meant to be the main liberated humans ever to stroll the face of the earth---with a message strong sufficient to reason the useless to upward push and the unaware of see. we are speculated to have God residing inside us. we are speculated to understand how to be on the earth yet now not of it. Does that describe your existence? writer Kary Oberbrunner suspects the answer's no, yet no longer since you are not captivated with Christ. really, the reason is, the church has been ripped aside and reassembled into major camps that, at most sensible, casually tolerate one another. the 1st camp separates itself from humans, society, and tradition for the most goal of ultimate unstained by means of the realm. whereas the second one camp conforms itself to the beliefs, philosophies, and targets of the area in an try and be all issues to everybody. So what is the replacement? more and more humans think another way and a distinct international. they're transformists. they usually have the ability to alter the realm. Care to affix them?
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Over time the church has devolved into a place of artistic bankruptcy. And when we fail to take the arts seriously, we export an impoverished theology. Artists inherently know this. For many of them, the church is the last place they would go in order to feel encouraged and supported in their craft. The arts get placed on the back burner because they don’t seem practical or, sadly, because they’re too risky. Maybe part of the problem is that, as the church, we don’t know how to benefit from the arts.
If you meet someone’s need, you love her. Hebrews did not separate the heart from the mind, or belief from action. 2 The Connected/Holistic worldview celebrates the marriage between knowing and doing. As a result it invites proponents to live rich, integrated lives. The Fragmented/Dualistic worldview divorces what we know from what we do, producing lives that are shallow and hypocritical. indd 54 10/3/08 3:30:22 PM The Spiritual Aspirin Concept of Categories Let’s shoot straight. Categories confuse both the world and the church.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7 – 8 NASB Just as Christianity and culture are interrelated, so are loving God and loving people. Although loving God and loving people are distinct from one another, they’re not in opposition to one another. We’ve been slowly building the paradigm one piece at a time. indd 61 10/3/08 3:30:22 PM WHERE ARE WE? took a while to get here, but now we can finally put together the elements of this model.