Spiritual Growth
I was home over the weekend so went to The Summit church. It's always a pleasure to hear J.D. Greear deliver a sermon. He's a very dynamic, funny, engaging, Biblically-driven preacher.
The topic of Sunday's sermon, well the latest series really, has been the difference between "mechanical change"- going through the motions and rituals of being a Christian and "organic change"- a more internal change.
J.D. talked about the "cultural mandate" that God gave us in the Bible to go out into the world, take the earth's materials and make something beautiful out of it to glorify God. In short, the people of God are supposed to restore the earth and preach the gospel.
We Christians should take God to the people. J.D. noted that Christianity is the only religion with a vision for the world. We are supposed to be stewards of the earth. J.D. talked about how Armageddon is the battle for influential places in the world.
In the Triangle area and most other places, the spheres of influence will occur, not in the church, but in arts and communication, family, government, agriculture, justice, economics, religion, science and medicine, education and other sectors.
65 percent of our life is spent at work, according to the pastor. When it comes to work, J.D. outlined four options
1)paycheck-driven
2)passion-driven
3)philanthropy-driven
4)purpose-driven
The sermon also talked about four characteristics of a "Christian" business:
1)God-Honoring
2)Others-benefiting
3)Redemption-demonstrating
4)Global-encompassing
I know this summary is disconnected. But these are the snippets of notes I have. I don't really have a "point" to this post rather than to share some salient ideas. I guess the bottom line is eat at Chick-Fil-A.
Just kidding. Although I do love eating at the sort of ultimate example of a "Christian" business.
Spiritual growth is important. Without there is definitely a disconnect.
That's why I'm particularly thankful for groups like Grad Resources while I'm in college.
The topic of Sunday's sermon, well the latest series really, has been the difference between "mechanical change"- going through the motions and rituals of being a Christian and "organic change"- a more internal change.
J.D. talked about the "cultural mandate" that God gave us in the Bible to go out into the world, take the earth's materials and make something beautiful out of it to glorify God. In short, the people of God are supposed to restore the earth and preach the gospel.
We Christians should take God to the people. J.D. noted that Christianity is the only religion with a vision for the world. We are supposed to be stewards of the earth. J.D. talked about how Armageddon is the battle for influential places in the world.
In the Triangle area and most other places, the spheres of influence will occur, not in the church, but in arts and communication, family, government, agriculture, justice, economics, religion, science and medicine, education and other sectors.
65 percent of our life is spent at work, according to the pastor. When it comes to work, J.D. outlined four options
1)paycheck-driven
2)passion-driven
3)philanthropy-driven
4)purpose-driven
The sermon also talked about four characteristics of a "Christian" business:
1)God-Honoring
2)Others-benefiting
3)Redemption-demonstrating
4)Global-encompassing
I know this summary is disconnected. But these are the snippets of notes I have. I don't really have a "point" to this post rather than to share some salient ideas. I guess the bottom line is eat at Chick-Fil-A.
Just kidding. Although I do love eating at the sort of ultimate example of a "Christian" business.
Spiritual growth is important. Without there is definitely a disconnect.
That's why I'm particularly thankful for groups like Grad Resources while I'm in college.
posted by Geoffrey Graybeal | 6:30 AM
2 Comments:
Good to see you have a post going already!
That previous post was from Morgan
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