“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams”
LEVITICUS 22-23
“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
22“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.’ ”(23:22)
MARK 1:1-22
9At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
JOURNAL
So Jesus is baptized and immediately the spirit of God sends him out into the desert to be tempted by Satan. Ok to really digest this is a little unnerving. Instead of receiving comfort and love and people affirming him...God sends Jesus right out into the fire. Direct temptation, loneliness and hunger...what??
This really does expose my erroneous idea of God and conflict. Conflict is not to be avoided but rather is to be accepted, received and ultimately overcome with love, truth and actions that build the kingdom.
So Jesus is baptized and immediately the spirit of God sends him out into the desert to be tempted by Satan. Ok to really digest this is a little unnerving. Instead of receiving comfort and love and people affirming him...God sends Jesus right out into the fire. Direct temptation, loneliness and hunger...what??
This really does expose my erroneous idea of God and conflict. Conflict is not to be avoided but rather is to be accepted, received and ultimately overcome with love, truth and actions that build the kingdom.
This really does expose my erroneous idea of God and conflict. Conflict is not to be avoided but rather is to be accepted, received and ultimately overcome with love, truth and actions that build the kingdom.
You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. 3For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you. 4Now that the Lord your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan. 5But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
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