
Pray for Portrait Church as they launch today.
“Everyone has a
until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
The vision is
James 1:26-27
How do I deal with people in my community who
me?
James 1:19-20
Punch #2 - How do I respond to the Bible when it exposes me?
James 1:21-25
The Bible reveals ultimate
Our current reality:
1. We are
2. We are
3. We are
“THIS must be stronger than THAT.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Morality is a
THIS is
than THAT.
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—
let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today
what time will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin