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Listen to the audio recording of the second teaching session in Professor Greyham Bryant's groundbreaking series on God's Apprentices. |
God's Apprentices
Recap
Spirituality Back in Fashion
The Emerging Church
- Midwife Evangelism
- Reverse Evangelism
- Tell Your Story
Spirituality includes:
- Our world view
- Our view of others
- Our view of ourselves
- Our view of God
God Can Change Our Spirituality
- Our Intuitions
‘At the age of 40 we all have the face we deserve' - Oscar Wilde.
‘Outwardly we are wasting away but inwardly we are renewed daily'- St Paul. - 2 Cor 4.16.
‘Conservative evangelism has not produced mature Christians'
‘everywhere I go I look for those who by example, teaching, friendship and supernatural power, can bring Christians to spiritual maturity'. - John Wimber. Maturity Conference. HTB.
The New Covenant - Ezekiel 36.25-25-6.
1) I will sprinkle you with clean water and make you clean.
2) I will cleanse you from your impurities and idols.
‘Unless I wash you, you have no part in me' - Jesus to Apprentice Foot Washers. John 13.8.
3) I will renew your heart of stone.
4) I will give you a new heart.
‘those with a good heart...produce a crop' - Parable of the Sower.
'and he looked on him and had compassion on him' - Parable of the Good Samaritan.
5) I will put a new spirit in you.
6) I will put my Spirit in you.
When the Spirit of truth comes he will guide you into all truth. - John 16.12.
‘the true worshipper will worship the Father in spirit and truth.' - John 4.39.
‘the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness... - Galatians 5.17.
7) I will move you to follow my decrees.
What we do. What we are.
Kind deeds. Kind Heart.
Service. Servant Heart.
‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.'
‘This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood; do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.' - 1 Cor. 11 24-5.
‘The greatest leadership, ministry and Mission, we can offer... is who we are as a people... sinners on the road to recovery...'
Dallas Willard - Renovation of the Heart.