Tragedy, Community, and Action by Kim Reisman
Kim Reisman
September 27, 2017
The Wesleyan Methodist tradition is one that puts actions with intentions.
The Wesleyan Methodist tradition is one that puts actions with intentions.
When we are teachable, we come with simple, trusting hearts, ready to gain insight from another.
We sing and play instruments, we paint and sketch, we enact and perform, and all of these are triumphant expressions of the truth of our faith.
Metanoia will be a place where we can hear God’s dream, see it with our own eyes, touch it and be touched by it – and then go declare it to all the world. I hope you’ll join me!
We must walk with people for a long time if they are to come into a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
We share the grace of God through word, deed, and sign, whether anybody notices or not.
I will do whatever it takes so that God can work in me and through me.
Embracing the pain of the crucifixion in order to experience the power of the resurrection involves right living, not easy living.
Jesus was full of passion, which makes following in the Jesus way a passionate endeavor.
The disciples were transformed into messengers by the presence of Jesus in real time, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
It’s dangerous to live your life with a past focus, with a two-dimensional Jesus, because you may end up following a tradition instead of following Jesus, God’s living Word.
Jesus wasn’t about hanging out on the “healthy” side of the river, the side of the “haves.”
It is better to stop worrying about the results of our evangelizing and instead worry about whether we have truly made the gospel known in our relationships with others.
Deep and authentic faith is meaningful; but can be costly, challenging, even frightening.
If you reflect on your spiritual walk, how do Peter’s various responses to Jesus resonate with your experience?
Yet, for our faith to be real, for it to be authentic, we must risk moving out of the shadows. So the question is, how close to the fire will we get?
Integrity as a core value of authentic evangelism is not only about our integrity, but about the integrity of others as well and allows space for the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.
And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
Prayer is asking. It is a request. But here is the difficult truth: all prayer is answered but not all requests are granted.
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