spiritual goose-bumps from all sorts of wrong places to keep their caboose going. How could this be a helpful way for us to understand how to test spiritual and emotional experiences? Why is the ongoing work of showing Christ-like love for each other actually the clearest evidence ‘slog’ of the Holy Spirit working within us and how can we encourage each other to keep on going? Missional How do those who are non-Christians in your experience view spiritual things? Are they impressed by the or dismissive of it? ‘spiritual’ What image does the world paint of a spiritual person? How can we engage with this image and paint a more truthful picture of what it means to be spiritual? Supplication Pray for wisdom not to after spiritual experiences devoid of the sacrificial living Jesus calls us to. Praise God for the power of the Spirit enabling us to love each other progressively in a more Christ-like manner and that in so doing the love of God is made complete in us. Pray for the wisdom to assess spiritual things by looking for the fruit of the Spirit that will be displayed in the lives of those who really are spiritual: love, joy, peace, patience… Faith in Jesus. 8 Read 1 John 5:1-21 This chapter contains the three most difficult verses in the whole letter v6, 17 and 21. The first two raise lots of differing opinions while the last verse just seems to drop out of nowhere without any context to explain it. But in spite of some of the complexities the chapter focuses our attention on where our faith must rest. Truth What does John mean by saying our faith overcomes the world vv1-5? In what ways before we were born of God were we overcome by the world? Does v19 throw any light on the question?
spiritual goose-bumps from all sorts of wrong places to keep their caboose going. How could this be a helpful way for us to understand how to test spiritual and emotional experiences? Why is the ongoing ‘slog’ work of showing Christ-like love for each other actually the clearest evidence of the Holy Spirit working within us and how can we encourage each other to keep on going? Missional How do those who are non-Christians in your experience view spiritual things? Are they impressed by the ‘spiritual’ or dismissive of it? What image does the world paint of a spiritual person? How can we engage with this image and paint a more truthful picture of what it means to be spiritual? Supplication Pray for wisdom not to after spiritual experiences devoid of the sacrificial living Jesus calls us to. Praise God for the power of the Spirit enabling us to love each other progressively in a more Christ-like manner and that in so doing the love of God is made complete in us. Pray for the wisdom to assess spiritual things by looking for the fruit of the Spirit that will be displayed in the lives of those who really are spiritual: love, joy, peace, patience… 8 Faith in Jesus. Read 1 John 5:1-21 This chapter contains the three most difficult verses in the whole letter v6, 17 and 21. The first two raise lots of differing opinions while the last verse just seems to drop out of nowhere without any context to explain it. But in spite of some of the complexities the chapter focuses our attention on where our faith must rest. Truth What does John mean by saying our faith overcomes the world vv1-5? In what ways before we were born of God were we overcome by the world? Does v19 throw any light on the question?
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