While getting ready for work today, the following thoughts came to me...
The church and Christian learning institutions need to move from the academics to 'pracidemics' - a new word indicating the experiential learning and application of christian-ministerial-life practices. Why?
- Jesus is not a subject to be studied as much as He is a Person to be engaged with in intimacy and taught by through partnership in doing His works.
- Jesus is not to be a 'pulpit puppet' - a subject used to entertain and mesmerize congregations through fancy sermonizing; rather, He is a loving 'minister' of every church and wants to be revealed as such to all and through all who are there to find Him and minister with Him.
- Christian ministry is not a collection of theoretical principles to be learned in a vacuum, but rather an applicational life-style of those principles to be lived through a partnership with the One Who will teach us as we "go into all the world."
- Learning about Jesus should lead us to leaning on Jesus, for it is in the place of resting on His breast that we will find the love, power, and encouragement, both for our own lives as well as for the lives of those we are to touch with His presence.
enough musings for now. Coffee time.
Frank
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