Living God’s Love
The adaptation of “Living God’s Love: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality” to classes for Christian youth was an easy and natural process. It is ‘on time’ for our church family.
At first read I thought the book was too easy, already in play in our christian lives, and would not whip us into the shape a family of our age should be in. But after further reflection and realization that the practices in this book are re-center my faith, I changed my mind. We are a fragile group. I believe there is fine line between letting God recreate us into something useful and burning us up. And I believe this study is perfect for walking that line for me and SC.
If you’ve not yet read the book, please do because it will be the foundation of much of what we are going to do as a family in the near future. At our stage the Spirit will should speak communally, and we should set aside our sin of pride and commune together to accept its guidance. It is my belief that the prayers of our leaders for a more active faith community are going to be answered in part through this Sunday morning (and more) plan of Discipling Groups and the study of this book- take full advantage.
Young people. Accept the fact that you are blessed to have an older community to learn from that will allow the Spirit to convict and alter their lives. Your faith will be better for it. The kingdom will benefit from your increased awareness of the hard work and dedication it takes to initially let go and let God. You are going to see SC start from scratch in its ministry to the world. You will see us admit we aren’t close to God. And you will see grown people (the madness) do whatever it takes to step out of our worldly lives into a life full of God.
To live God’s love (in all of life) is to live, everything else is just a waste of time. Believe it.