Ideas about the Kingdom of the Heavens around us and the unity of believers in Christ within it
About the shortness of my time remaining, the failure of my life thus far, priorities, how Don Quixote, the Serenity Prayer and Ponce de Leon fit, love is always passionate, and passion always hurts, and proudly wearing the craters on my heart.
There is only one kind of love, the love of God, who is unique, united in one. I must love God and my individual neighbor with the same unique, pure, undivided love with which God loves me.
Solo hay un tipo de amor, el amor de Dios, quien es único, unido en uno. Debo amor a Dios y a mi vecino individual con el mismo amor único, puro e indiviso con el que Dios me ama a mí.
Explicación de la carta que he escrito a Regina Oliveira. Ella era una parte importante de la historia surreal de mi vida de 1984 a 1991, luego desapareció. Su amor nos sostuvo en un momento muy difícil. Esta historia enseña que no puedes saber cuánto la bondad que haces hoy cambiará el mundo dentro de cuarenta años.
A God who Speaks, Angels, Complex unity, Denominationalism, Ethnic Division, Events and Signs, Forgive as we forgive, forgiveness and mercy, God Acts by Speaking, God is light, God is Love, God Never Stopped Speaking, God Speaks to Us, God's purpose for us, God's sovereignty, Heresy, His Friends, In the Church, Love each other, Meaning of Unity, patience, Personal Background, Replacing Relationship with Morality, Restoration of our Relationships, Show us the Way of Truth, The Kingdom is all around us, The Kingdom of the Heavens, Through others, To be his ambassadors, To be in his image, To live in unity, Truth and Falsehood, Victory
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.
A God who Speaks, Complex unity, Conversation with others, Desire to have our own way, Ethnic Division, God is Love, God Speaks to Us, God's purpose for us, Language and Speech, Must Trust God to Enter, Personal Background, The Kingdom of the Heavens, Through teachers, To be his ambassadors, To be in his image, To live in unity, Trusting sight over God's words, Truth and Falsehood, Victory
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.
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!
A God who Speaks, Complex unity, God Acts by Speaking, God is light, God Speaks to Us, God's Existence and Nature, God's purpose for us, In the Church, Love each other, Meaning of Unity, Must Trust God to Enter, Other Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Restoration of our Relationships, Show us the Way of Truth, The Kingdom is all around us, The Kingdom of the Heavens, Through others, Through the church, To be his ambassadors, To be in his image, To bear fruit, To see God's glory, Truth and Falsehood, Victory
God created the first human, male and female, as a being like himself with whom he could share his life and his creation. But the disobedience of the first humans introduced shame, which drove them away from God and hindered them from agreeing with God about their sin and returning to him. This is always the effect of shame, which comes from us, not from God.
Complex unity, Confession and Repentance, Conversation with God, Desire to have our own way, Forgetting God, Free will, God is Love, God's Existence and Nature, God's purpose for us, Guilt versus Shame, Knowing good and evil, Language and Speech, Male and female, Marriage, Marriage, Marriage and Reproduction, Meaning of Unity, Repentance, Replacing Relationship with Morality, Sin, To be in his image, To bear fruit, To fill and govern the Earth, Trinity, Unity, What is sin?
The importance of broad family and kindred groups to God’s work on Earth and my initiative to my own.
God uses our uniqueness and gives unique gifts and roles. He does not make interchangeable, cookie-cutter believers for our administrative convenience. Examples: the first deacons, Stephen, Philip. Paul and the anomalous New Testament prophets.