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I am grateful to Jean Vanier founder of the magnificent L’Arche community for the following thoughts This is a broken world that is very fearful. Fear is all over the place. We will never get rid of fear but we must not being controlled by it motivated by it or subdued by fear. But we fear people discovering […]
Mission is as much for the inviter as the invited person. Health and well-being flow to the inviter. Listen to the words of Isaiah in chapter 58 and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night […]
UCLA Professor Matthew Lieberman says the same brain region that expresses physical pain also expresses social pain. Lieberman offers scientific evidence to counter the idea that the need to survive and reproduce is the fundamental driver of human behavior. He believes social connection is the fundamental human need. He believes our urge to connect is […]
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. When the body is at homeostasis or at peace, the heart pumps automatically, without having to consciously do anything, the digestion system, kidneys, lungs, pancreas all automatically know what to do next. Together with us being […]
Woody Allen said, ‘Showing up is 80 percent of life.’ Sometimes it’s easier to hide home in bed. I’ve done both. To persist is to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition. Persist in the area of invitational mission and invite someone to take […]
Jesus tells the story of two sons are invited by their father to go and work in the vineyard. One initially said yes and then did not go to work. Another initially said no but then did go to work in the vineyard. Sometimes we will invite someone and they will say yes, but really […]
I want to encourage some deliberate faith practice in churches that I work with on a consultancy basis. The specific goal is to become an invitational church . (I am describing an invitational church as one in which 50% of the congregation invite or have a deliberate God conversation with someone new once a month.) […]
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