Taking away something useful

Well, the Millers are now in Madrid and I am in full hangover reflection mode after their visit.  I always end up receiving so much more than what is actually ministered during meetings that I make it a point of really reflecting upon every word and every conversation in order to extract as much benefit for my life as possible.  Quentin is a person that has that effect on me.  A couple of things are really resonating in a deep, deep place within after this visit that deserve a mention here:

• The power of the tongue.  We really do have the power to build up or to tear down…. to create life or to destroy it….through speech.  Lets start living like it.  The opportunity we have is only matched by the huge omission that we would be guilty of if we proceeded through life ignoring this awesome truth.
• The power of grace is SO MUCH greater than the power of sin.  WOW that never ceases to shock impress me.
• The power of stories.  I probably brought this one up in conversation with Quentin but nevertheless, as humans stories have the power to transform our lives.  As humans one of our distinctive features is that although all of our cultures and tribes may not have a written alphabet, all of them have stories.  Jesus consistently used proverb as a medium of teaching.  We even need to return to the Bible as stories that carry power beyond the written letter – when we reduce the bible to a text book or an instruction manual or a series of systematic doctrines we reduce the Word of God to something far lower than the “authoritative place” we, as evangelicals, claim to give it.

Anyway that’s all for now.  I am chewing on this stuff right now so lets see what comes out if it all.

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