15: A New Faithfulness
The story of the WWJD movement. A quote from Charles Stanley: “It is, indeed, easier to give assent to the Westminster Confession than to love one’s enemies.”
FAITHFULNESS: WHAT IS IT? Faithfulness is test (or faith) over time. It can’t be measured until the evening of life.
THE CHURCH NEEdS FAITHFUL FOLKS, NOT HEROES. The example of Randy Harris
WE HAVE GOD’S NEW CREATION POWER FOR FAITHFULNESS. “Faithfulness is not our own strength muscled up by determination and discipline and grit; nor is it our strength combined with God’s strength. Faithfulness happens when God’s strength is unleashed in us as we look to, lean on, and love God.”
WE NEED TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO FAITHFULNESS. “Faithfulness is the result of a lifetime of daily commitments, of what Eugene Peterson calls a “long obedience in the same direction,”4 or, in the case of Charles Sheldon, a lifetime of asking a simple question — “What would Jesus do?”
WE CAN BE FAITHFUL AND ORDINARY. Paul expected ordinary Christian’s to do the ordinary things in a Christian way.
FAITHFUL CAN BEGIN NOW, REGARDLESS OF THE THE SEASON IN LIFE. “In the evening of life, I want God to say of me that I was an ordinary person who lived an ordinary Christian life empowered by the extraordinary grace of God my whole life long ...”
Quotes from: Scot McKnight. “A Fellowship of Differents.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/9W9u1.l