tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19736311.post5848521114625707548..comments2023-09-03T07:25:45.078-07:00Comments on Gaffney Journal: And They Shall Know You By...Gaffneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293658542211510275noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19736311.post-46687358680735073432007-10-25T12:36:00.000-07:002007-10-25T12:36:00.000-07:00"Christians? Oh man...those are the people that tr..."Christians? Oh man...those are the people that truly care about me, that love me unconditionally. I love those people!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19736311.post-36315834640304328182007-10-25T09:41:00.000-07:002007-10-25T09:41:00.000-07:00I would want non-Christians to know us as the peop...I would want non-Christians to know us as the people who lived our lives moment to moment, pursuing acts of radical trust.<BR/><BR/>My congregation has been working on this concept, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. But when people actually do take big leaps of faith based on active listening to the Spirit of God it is (a) very strange to secular eyes and (b) amazing.<BR/><BR/>"Who are these crazy people? And what voices are they listening to?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19736311.post-4315746327548544232007-10-24T22:30:00.000-07:002007-10-24T22:30:00.000-07:00Fun - today we had a really revolutionary chapel m...Fun - today we had a really revolutionary chapel message at our high school. The speaker didn't tell the kids not to have sex, or not to do drugs, or not to believe the lies of the liberal media. He didn't tell them they were hypocrites, or that they weren't on fire enough to be real Christians. He didn't tell them how bad they were or how much they don't appreciate what they have and don't give away what they've been given.<BR/><BR/>He did something that, for the first time in the four years I've been there, made every kid sit up and listen during chapel. He told him that God loved them, deeply, inexplicably, unconditionally. I've never seen the kids so moved, so interested.<BR/><BR/>And they'll know we are Christians...Lindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07435070216112833249noreply@blogger.com