Sharing – Week Four
“Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”1 Thes 2:8 NIV The final rhythm …
“Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”1 Thes 2:8 NIV The final rhythm …
While simplifying may seem confining, it is ultimately about finding true freedom. Freedom from the feelings of worry, guilt, and the anxiety inducing consumer culture in which we live.
While we are hyperconnected all the time, trapped in the individualism of the modern condition, never have we been more alone. Isolation and loneliness are the great soul wounds of our time. How can we heal from these wounds?
“So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he …
God is the source of all good things. There is nothing that we receive that is not a gift from God. The clothes we wear, the food we consume, the air we breathe, intimate moments of prayerful communion in the Spirit… all gifts from God.
Our lives are a movement of God’s love that has four rhythms, a cycle of receiving, co-creating, simplifying, and sharing. When any of these four rhythms get clogged or disrupted, it leads to a life of fragmentation and scarcity.