The Virtue of Humility
When we think there is nothing left to learn, that we have heard it all before, our hearts are closed and we no longer are able to see what God is doing in the world. Opening our hearts enables us to discover the joy of seeing God at work today
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Quotes from the book:
‘noticing the movement of God in the world is an art that local communities of faith can become experts in’ p. 46
‘The church exists to enable normal everyday people to walk the way of Jesus’ p. 47
‘what God does in us is as important as what God does through us’. p 49
‘The key question for mainline churches is not ‘how shall we die?’ but rather ‘how shall we join in on what God is doing today and live?’ – the way to move from one to the other is to adopt a stance of humility and become a community of learning and spiritual growth’ p. 55
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Turning Ourselves Inside Out emerges from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015, as well as from a Facebook conversation where someone asked, "We always hear about the problems in our churches. When are we going to talk about the good news stories?" This got the authors thinking: How do we learn about what is exciting and what the Holy Spirit is doing? How do we broaden the conversation beyond how sad, afraid, and grumpy we often are as church people?