Written
by David Grigsby, Creative Pastor - Church of Champions
on Monday, 05 May 2008.
Posted in Champion's Blog
In Luke 10, we find Jesus embroiled in another encounter with the educated theocracy of the day. A young man rises with a challenging question, “What is the key to the door of heaven?” What followed was a dissertation on the two great commandments. After Jesus' rebuttal, this young law student, in an apparent attempt to justify himself, asked another provocative question, “Who is my neighbor?”
This question was not posed to Jesus' to discover “who” we are to love, but he was asking about the “limit” to which we are to love! He was asking, "How far do I have to love and to what limit." Jesus uses this opportunity to explain the chasm between their head knowledge and their heart knowledge. The chasm was great. There was a great divide between what they professed with their lips and what they were doing with hands and feet.
Are we in a recession? Officially, that's up to a nonprofit group of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research to decide. While their declaration is based on facts and figures, we can look around to determine whether we are already in the midst of the big "R." Gas prices are higher than ever, restaurants are not as busy, golf courses are empty, there are fewer shoppers in retail stores, travel is down, real estate values have diminished (in the Northwest), and the stock market is inconsistent.
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The Church is designed to be a place of restoration, because restoration is a prelude to a manifested revival and revival is the change element of revolution – it’s the enginery by which the wheel becomes the middle of the wheel through apostolic order and apostolic government.
