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Three weeks into tulsa church life - our building of culture is underway.
Try and define any culture - you will find you are telling stories, talking about pillars within the culture, but rarely able to actually define it. Specific behaviors will play into a culture, but behavior will always evolve and will erode or change. It requires shared values.
This is amazing in that you are unable to plug and play a formula and pop out a culture. It won't work. Culture is made up of people that live out similar values. And when those individuals are free those values will express themselves in a diverse manner.
As rob's and I are getting after the grind of the values that the Lord has laid out in front of us, we are shocked at how simple, yet convicting it is. It all comes back to the centrality of Jesus and His perfect leadership.
This week we cracked opened the value of simple honor- to treat people as God's created and not as their behavior deserves -
the last several weeks we have been blown away in our meetings at the weightiness of HS convicting all of us as we parse out what it means to live out these values.
Want to invite you to try this with us this week:
pick a co-worker, friend or family member - and actively try and engage them from God's lens and not as their behavior deserves. Engage that relationship with no expectation of an exchange but simply out of the desire to honor that nature of God in them.
give it a whirl...
I’ll drop some pics of the house later
Be vigorous and aware of your connection to heaven
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Mark 4 on tap for my soul
Reading proverbs 17.3 this morning. My hearts motives will get put out before the Lord to be judged...someday? Sure sure we will all stand before a judgement seat - in the meantime we exist in the today.
Just how much do we really want our motives to be seen and known? To a degree, we can add some churchy language to situations in our lives and make everything seem dandy - try and manage or control the externals around us so that people around us have the idea that we have great lives. And we will all see just how long we can hold that up...
But really whats the driver in your soul. And how will that end? Is it monies? health? reputation? Trying to work out the grind of life so that I feel secure, satisfying my internal need for whatever the thing is.
A free heart has no need for external validation, no need to be proven, it experiences the fire of life and is out on display come what may. Its proof of trust in a God that is in control.
Check proverbs 17.3
Then check out Phil 2. ...
a pretty good indicator of your thoughts and attitudes getting the day going.
That first thing, first word could be to a family member, a text, an email, a co worker, the coffee barista...irregardless take a moment and look at it.
Most of us, myself included have some sort of routine greeting informed by our experiences, culture, friends around us - its generally trite, creating minimal connection, and continues us on our day.
My invitation is to spend that moment with intention and allow Hebrews 3:1-14 to guide you. That first word could be so much more...
The author is giving a recount of the Israelites allowing their hardness to be. He runs the hardening through the redemption of hope in Christ, and then challenges us to understand we are no different than the Israelites apart from Christ.
And then verse 13...the solid therefore. take a moment and read it.
The exhortation is not a trite you can do it, but a calling of the reminder of the hope in the Cross, the person of Jesus, the ...
