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Church purpose versus church growth

The opposition between God’s purpose for the Church and numerical growth as a purpose for churches

An important decision about my articles

August 22, 2024 0 Comments

The most important lesson of the last six months of my life is: to be who I am without reservation, without restraint. I’m a teacher, not a mushroom. And I participate in a Hispanic church. Therefore, I will write in Spanish first.

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Una decisión importante sobre mis artículos

August 22, 2024 0 Comments

La lección más importante de los últimos seis meses de mi vida es: ser quien soy sin reservas, sin contención. Soy maestro, no hongo. Participo en una iglesia hispana y ouedo escribir en español. Por eso, ahora voy a escribir primero en español.

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Encouragers/ Exhorters: Be who you are!

August 21, 2024 0 Comments

Each member has his or her own gifts, which are not the same as those of other members. The Church needs all our gifts. We are to be the persons that God has made us to be fully, unreservedly, completely in proportion to the faith. To Encouragers/ Exhorters, God says: “Be who you are!” The rest of us would be in a bad place without you!

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Animadores/ Exhortadores: ¡sé quién eres!

August 21, 2024 0 Comments

La Iglesia necesita todos nuestros dones. Debemos ser las personas que el Dios nos ha hecho de ser con plenitud, sin reserva, completamente en proporción a la fe. A los Animadores/ Exhortadores, Dios les dice: ¡Sé lo quién eres! ¡El resto de nosotros estaríamos en un mal lugar sin ti!

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And I think I have problems?

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

God’s people had been ruled by God as their King. But they had forgotten him. Still, Samuel said to them, “And as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.”

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A question about being forgotten

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

Many times it seems to me that people have decided to treat me as non-existent. How should I love them?

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Una pregunta sobre ser olvidado

August 20, 2024 1 Comment

Muchas veces me parece que personas hayan decidido tratarme como inexistente. ¿Cómo debo amarles?

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About “Turn, Turn, Turn” by “The Byrds”

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

This is my fear and my hope. There is a time to dance, although I could never dance. There is a time to hug each other. There is a time for peace. There is a time to love. Will that time come during my lifetime? I do not know.

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Sobre «Turn, Turn, Turn» por «The Byrds»

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

Responde a la canción vieja «Turn, Turn». Hay un tiempo para todo. Pero espero que el tiempo de bailar, abrazarse y hacerse paz no haya pasado ya.

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My Response to “The Rose”

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

So dare I hope so late as now
Toward the end of my life
That, beneath all of the ice and snow
Atop my frozen grave
When the sun’s love clears the cold stone
There will yet lie the seed
That in the spring becomes the rose?.

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