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#SH2015 Day 3: Deeper (with @krishk & @drbexl)
The document discusses being rooted in love through the Holy Spirit. It explores what it means to be filled by the Spirit, including when believers receive the Spirit, whether being filled is a separate experience, and what are the signs of being filled. The document emphasizes that without the Spirit, believers do not have Christ, cannot please God, will not be transformed, and fail to experience life to the full. It encourages finding more slides on being rooted deeper in faith.
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#SH2015 Day 3: Deeper (with @krishk & @drbexl)
- 1. CHEW MORE: DEEPER Saturday4th April 2015
- 2. Chew More Deeper Dr BexLewis Social Media & Online Learning, CODEC Director, Digital Fingerprint T: @drbexl W: drbexl.co.uk Dr Krish Kandiah President, London School of Theology Founder/Director, Home for Good T: @krishk W: krishk.com
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- 5. 14 For this reasonI kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Ephesians 3:14- 17
- 6. Paul likens themfirst to a well-rooted tree, and then to a well-built house. In both cases the unseen cause of their stability will be the same: love. Love is to be the soil in which their life is to be rooted; love is to be the foundation on which their life is built. One might say that their love is to be of both a ‘radical’ and a ‘fundamental’ nature in their experience, for these English words refer to our roots and our foundations. JOHN STOTT
- 7. THE RADICAL FUNDAMENTALS whatdoes it mean to be radically rooted? what are the fundamentals of our faith?
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- 9. Sitting - waiting DrBex Lewis
- 10. False Gospel? When itcomes to issues of contextualization, however, Christians and churches must be careful to not fall to the right or the left. In my last post, I described what I believe to be one of the major issues plaguing American Christianity: obscurantism; that is, obscuring the gospel by emphasizing things that are actually external to the gospel as being central to it. The end result is a false gospel that becomes a stumbling block to those Christians and churches are trying to reach. Syncretism, in this case, is the mixing of Christianity with something else such that they become a different gospel. Syncretism can take place with a positive-thinking gospel, a nationalist emphasis, or emerging culture. Syncretism happens more than we might know. When anything is added to the message of the gospel, the uniqueness and sufficiency of Christ is compromised and another gospel can be created that is, well, actually not the gospel. http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014/june/avoiding-pitfall-of-syncretism.html
- 11. Workaholism Again, I’m allfor reaching past our typical anti-workaholic bias and striving for a healthy “work-life fusion” over a lazy and an overly leisure-obsessed “work-life balance,” but achieving a successful integration demands far more of us than blind self- gratification and finding a job that’s easy to love. Indeed, God will often call us to discover such meaning in a job we currently despise. Without the proper attention and care, the “do what you love” mantra can just as easily be interpreted by excuse-making hedonists as “indulge thyself” as it can be contemplated by Christians as “follow your God-given directive.” Joseph Sunde http://blog.acton.org/archives/50348-work-life-fusion-re-thinking-workaholism-in-christian-context.html
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- 15. Wholeness? But when itcomes to the subject of wholeness, the unique element that Jesus brings to the discussion is that of transformation into the image of God. Our character is not simply formed through knowledge, rituals and discipline. One is transformed by faith in the work and power of Wholly Jesus. The Imageo Dei is the Holy Grail for humanity. It is what we are in search of constantly. It is how we live the painting of life. We are meant to possess the character of God. Mark Wesley Foreman, Wholly Jesus: His surprising approach to wholeness and why it matters today, p133
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- 17. “Accept some ofyour own limits today – not out of laziness or fear, but out of contentment and assurance” Brian Draper, Lent E-Mail Series, 2015 http://briandraper.org/engage Image Credit: Purchased from Stockfresh
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- 19. Discuss • What stopsus sitting in God’s presence? • Why are we so busy? Culture? Expectations? Being needed? • When God seems to be missing, is it Him or us?
- 20. Filled, not shriveling DrKrish Kandiah
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- 22. And I praythat you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the Lord’s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge— that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17- 19
- 23. WHAT DO WEMEAN BY THE FILLING OF THE SPIRIT? When do you receive the Holy Spirit? Is being filled a separate experience? What is meant by a second blessing? What are the signs of being filled? What happens if we use a liquid metaphor of the Spirit?
- 24. THE SPIRIT a) Through theSpirit we come to know who Jesus is and what he has done for us and so our conversion is a work of the Spirit b) Through the Spirit we are empowered to live the Christian life c) Through the Spirit we are united with Christ d) Through the Spirit the fruit of the Spirit are worked into our characters e) Through the Spirit the gifts of the Spirit are operative in our churches today
- 25. THE SPIRIT is fullyGod 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 Matthew 28:18-20 is a person (eg only persons can be grieved Ephesians 4:30-31) is the Spirit of Jesus John 20:11-13 is at work in our conversion John 16:8 makes us part of the church 1 Corinthians 12:13 empowers us for witness Acts 1:6-8 guarantees our future inheritance Ephesians 1:13-14
- 26. a) we donot have Christ b) we cannot please God c) we will not be transformed in our affections & behaviours d) we fail to experience life to the full without the spirit
- 27. Chew More: Deeper Findslides: http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl Dr Bex Lewis Social Media & Online Learning, CODEC Director, Digital Fingerprint T: @drbexl W: drbexl.co.uk Dr Krish Kandiah President, London School of Theology Founder/Director, Home for Good T: @krishk W: krishk.com
Editor's Notes
- #11 So, Cris started us off with thinking about how much we try and add to (or substitute) for the gospel as presented to us, and how this affects our theology… how much have we taken on from our culture, about the need to be busy, the ‘protestant work ethic’, etc. Refers to Fr Duncan and the fact that he prioritised prayer over all, and how counter-cultural we find that, and reminded of Youthwork the Conf with Justin Welby – gets up early to pray before the day starts … Time to discuss what some of these might be – that have been over-emphasised (e.g. importance of head-coverings, a particular form of liturgy, etc. or how things have been mixed – worries people had when I trained as a life coach (although I do believe is compatible, have to have wisdom when reading some of the literature).
- #12 In times of grief (and Holy Saturday is surely a time to grieve), I don’t know about you but I tend to get super-busy to shove stuff out of my head, and our culture approves of that… http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-workaholism.html p.152 – Justin Welby/
- #13 STOP DRINK deep, not just doing = be refreshed. Part of the emphasis that Cris has put in his book is the idea that properly rooted = less likely to be swayed by the troubles of life (and the temptations to be like everyone else) – well watered roots will deepen… (although I don’t know about you – I sometimes feel I’ve learnt enough!) and be able to stand up for those things that are valued, and for the unique ‘us’ that God created us to be… So I wanted to read out something that I wrote a couple of years ago (and that I still need to keep reminding myself of):
- #14 May 2012. The sun is beating down on my head in the gardens of Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire. I crawl under the shade of a tree and try to get my tired mind to be ‘creative’. I’ve made a conscious effort to move away from my desk, but now all I want to do is snooze. I have come to Mottisfont Abbey as Brian Draper (Less is More) recently brought me here as part of a guided retreat, where he’d both encouraged me to consider the need to constantly return to “the source”, and to sit still and take on board the W.H.Davies poem: “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare”. I did a search on Bible Gateway for the word “rest”, and in the New Living Translation it returned 508 entries, including being at the root of words ‘restoration’ and ‘restriction’. One that resounded for me was: It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones. (Psalm 127:2) Taking time to rest and reflect is a real challenge for me, and as highlighted by Rev Kate Bruce in a recent Big Bible post, it’s not down to the technology that so many associate with me. I find great value in conversations, collaboration and research online. Before computers, I used to spend hours writing letters, and getting lost in other people’s worlds in books, rather than sitting, staring, and recouping. As an Oak Hall tour leader, I remember leading Morning Prayer on the theme of rest. Doctors have said that if we don’t rest enough, God has designed our bodies to enforce that rest. God set the example: On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. (Genesis 2:2) In the Second World War, the government attempted to implement 8-day working weeks in attempts to increase productivity, but found that both the amount produced, and the quality, decreased. Leviticus is particular emphatic about this, with many references to the need to allow land to lie fallow every 7 years. As I lay there, my body tired after a week of illness, I absorbed the sound of the wind, ‘smelt’ the sun, and watched a small bird hopping around the lawn. I was so still it came almost within touching distance of me –if I had chased after it would have run away. It reminded me of the time I had been to Doubtful Sound in New Zealand, where the boat stopped on a mirror lake, all noise stopped, and the profound silence gave way to the sounds of nature, as we allowed all our senses to work. In a similar way a series of ideas that had been chasing around the edges of my thinking were coming towards me. The deadlines still continue to roll but this verse continues to encourage me: Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28) What ways do you find to take ‘time out’? What verses encourage you when life is tough?
- #15 60-90 second video re Mary/Martha, and the temptation to be so in a digital age.
- #16 WAIT – realising we are dependent on God – wholeness = not til heaven – this book continues to say that God created us to be fully human, and that Jesus was sent to return us to the blueprint of God’s original design, without whom we are only almost human – we have dependence – we can’t do it all ourselves?
- #17 Partly because I love these – but we do feel the pressure to be a certain way, can we get out of our own way, step back, re-root ourselves, and be who God created us to be…
- #18 Always challenged by Brian’s writings – this was recently – I am a busy achiever – can we stop, just for a bit, make space for God to speak into the situation… God can do life in the trenches with us – difficult times, mental health challenges, family difficulties (and that’s just me…) …