March 27, 2022 - Creating Space for God: Hospitality and Wholeness
Slide 1
A. Beautiful Messy Relationships
B. Creating Space for God
1. Silence and Solitude
2. Fasting and Slowing
3. Service and Humility
4. Hospitality and Wholeness
Slide 2
Hospitality as a discipline goes beyond having someone over.
Slide 3
Two difficult words: worthy and calling
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Slide 4
Things that enhance your calling
2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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Produce or profit from?
3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
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Repeatedly focus on the source
4 There is one body and one Spirit, ... one hope ... 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
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The skipped section: service unites
12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith
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Steady in the storm
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching
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People are the problem - and we are people
and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
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Again, Simple, but not Easy
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love,
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Hopeful expectation
we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
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Beyond a well-oiled machine
16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
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So how does this work?
1. Invite people
2. Dare to go deep
3. Figure it out when it goes sideways