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Question: What does Jesus shaped leadership look like?

Posted in Discussion, Introduction, Jesus Community, WWJT on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Dear Mr. Spencer:
I’m a big fan of both the website and the podcasts, and since you say you always welcome questions I’m going to take you up on that offer!
My question is how does pastoral leadership fit into a Jesus-shaped spirituality? Is the current system even necessary? (By which I mean, the churches that have [...]

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Considering Two Good Observations From The Music Discussion

Posted in Discussion, JS Analysis on May 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »

JSS commenter Michael Bell makes two worthwhile comments about the “worship” post.
When we get to heaven, if I am reading the book of Revelation correctly, we are going to be doing a whole lot of worshiping. I appreciate the fact on Sunday Morning that I can get a glimpse of what that will be like.
Michael [...]

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Our central lie is in the discrepancy between the language of worship and the actions of worship. We confess “Jesus is Lord” but only submit to the part of Christ’s authority that fits our grand personal designs, doesn’t cause pain, doesn’t disrupt the American dream, doesn’t draw us across ethnic and racial divisions, doesn’t add the pressure of too much guilt, doesn’t mean forgiving as we have been forgiven, doesn’t ask for more than a check to show compassion. We “sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” expressing our desire to know Jesus, but the Jesus we want to know is the sanitized Jesus that looks a lot like us when we think we are at our best. Despite God’s Word to the contrary, we think we can say that we love God and yet hate our neighbor, neglect the widow, forget the orphan, fail to visit the prisoner, ignore the oppressed. Its the sign of disordered love. When we do this, our worship becomes a lie to God. -Mark Labberton
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