Tag Archives: Love
The new face of American Evangelicalism
Posted on 20. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
I recently came across this video clip from ABC News that aired last Spring. Sorry if you’ve already seen it. What do you think?
So much of what is said here rails against the how I was raised within the church. The world needs the Gospel. Period. Almost as if this statement gave us license to overlook the loving and caring of the world around us. Interesting.
I’m not going to lie. The words these people say sound more like the words I’d imagine Jesus would say if he was sitting on that stage. What they’re talking about is a living and active Gospel that is shared as it is lived out. What do you think?
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Camp Day Two: Love your neighbor
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Kenny.
So, here we are at day two of Kids Camp. Yesterday the main point was:
Take it in & Live it out. Build my life on what really counts.
Today we’re adding to this with: Choose to see you the way God see’s me. The scripture base is the parable of the Good Samaritan. This morning we challenged the kids to think of who the Samaritans are in their lives. Bullies, siblings, people that are just plain hard to love. We left them with the challenge this morning to think about who the Samaritans are in their lives and what it would look like to show them love.
Tonight we’re going to challenge the kids to make a heart decision. It’s one thing to “show love” to people who are hard to love, but an entirely different thing to truly love your neighbor as yourself. We’re going to challenge the kids to see others the way God sees them. This isn’t a switch we can turn on or off, but something the Holy Spirit has to do in our hearts. We just have to be willing to let him change us.
So, join with me in prayer tonight that the 400 kids at camp this week would be attentive to the words they hear and that they would open their hearts to the work God wants to do in them. This could be the start of a Revolution of Love!
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Question of the day: Does God trust us?
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by Kenny.
At Gateway Church our mission is tied into what we call the “Way of Christ.” The “Way of Christ” encompasses loving God, loving people, building character and being the body (Christ’s body to the world). Next week we’re beginning a series on “Love God.” So today in our all staff meeting we sat in groups and discussed the concept of loving God, what it looks like and how we live it out. It’s very interesting how a simple little concept can be so complex in reality. After reading through the following passages (Matthew 22:34-40, Mark 12:28-34, Luke 10:25-28, Deuteronomy4:6-9, 10:12, 11:13, 13:3, 30:6 and 1 John 4:7-21) , we had a list of 15-20 questions to discuss. We never got past the first one.
“Why is loving God the most important thing?”
We talked about love, what love looks like, what it isn’t and how all of this relates to loving God. In the discussion someone brought up trust as a meaningful component to a loving relationship. My Early Childhood Director quickly spit out the question, “Do you think that God trusts us?”
What do you think? I don’t have an agenda. I don’t even know that it makes any difference, but at least it’s something to think about.
Does God trust you?
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