“Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Three-in-One, is our model of holistic well-being. The Eternal “Us.” They model what we all long for as individuals and as a community.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Life played God’s way is a relational sport. Played well, it volleys back and for the between the Trinity and us, between us and others. Discipleship has been given to the grace training we undergo; this implies that we are intentional about processes of learning, self-discipline, and life application as is led by God.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Isn’t our goal to become increasingly like Jesus? We get to know the Master because we live with him. As apprentices you and I can’t have a relationship with Him just because we have read a book about his way of life. While I may admire the man, that is like saying I am like Winston Churchill just because I read one of his memoirs.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Ongoing apprenticeship is crucial because it forms a relational connection between Jesus and us, His followers. Whatever language you choose, apprenticeship/discipleship is picture of the same process. It’s less “knowing about,” and more “knowing for yourself.” The experience engages our whole hearts the process of relating and refining in love.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“The alternative to apprenticeship is life under self-imposed religious legalism. It sounds like, “I don’t really want to know the Master, just tell me what to do.” That was sad story of the Pharisees who thought it would be better to crucify Jesus than allow challenge to their legalism.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“When we function out of fear, we end up “doing the God thing” without God. Driven by fear, we opt for control and control numbs us to the value of relationships – especially our relationship with God.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“If we divide the second, every fraction becomes the past faster than the speed of thought and every fraction of every fraction. We would need to step down to the Zero Point of time to measure the present; we would need to divide the smallest number by the infinite number of numbers and look for the past in the infinity of the second. The whole matter is smaller than the numberless “number” of infinity. Infinity is endless.”
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“Abiding apprenticeship to Jesus protects us from religion’s common dysfunctions.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“It is outrageously foolish to dismiss relationships as “fluff” or “nice things to have.” God designed relationships to provide the central organizing experiences and the primary vehicle by which we learn to experience and respond to all of life.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Trinitarian relationships are particularly important to the brain. Grace-filled interactions with two people are necessary for our brain and identity to become stable and complete. Neuroscientists call these “three-way bonds” or “family bonds.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others