Great scripture in Matthew 22. I had to post another entry even though these are pretty thick and fast!
"29.Your mistake is that you don't know the scriptures, and you don't know the power of God"
This could be a sermon or 10 in its own right. Most of our mistakes boil down to two things. Firstly we lack the foundation or soundness of our understanding because we base too much on what we think and not enough on what we read in scripture or we distort scripture that we know to match what we think. Secondly, even if we have sound knowledge of God from scripture, if we are unable to take this from theory into practice, we limit the power of God and we are weak and ineffective. If you go to many ineffective churches, one or both of those things are present.
At my church they have a phrase about the "twin rails of Spirit and Word" that represent the balance required between the written, objective knowledge of God and the subjective experience of the power of God. Take one away and the train derails.
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