Last night I met with my Outreach Team, and we were challenged to think about what service means to us and put that into words to share with the group. In order to get us thinking and reflecting, Becky (our supervisor and friend) gave us a paper with some quotes from Henri Nouwen's "In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership", Shane Claiborne's "Irresistible Revolution", from the Word of God, and some reflective questions. Here are just a few thoughts from Henri Nouwen and my reading in Matthew.
"The long painful history of the Church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led" (Nouwen, 59).
"The vision of Jesus is not spread through organizational structures, but through touch, breath, shared life. It is spread through people who have discovered love" (Shane Claiborne).
What stuck out to me as I read Matthew:
"But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (6:33).
"Thus you will know them by their fruits" (7:20 - talking about bad/good trees).
"Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven" (7:21- which is then followed by the example of the man who built his house on rock vs. the man who built his house on sand- one of my favorite passages of the entire Gospel).
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Have you been reading "Irresistible Revolution" on your own, or was this just a quote someone pulled from the book?
My friends and I are reading it at school right now, he says some interesting stuff.
-Chase
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