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Mainly I would like to express the fact that I am sincerely wanting to see change in how we as Christians approach our life in God. I am a follower of Christ, first and foremost. I also believe that God operates in the places where we are, "poor in spirit,", which doesn't necessarily mean poor monetarily. In my life, I have had opportunities, but most of those opportunities meant nothing to me outside of true fulfillment in the life in Jesus. The riches of Christ are more pleasant to my life than any money. I am not at all downplaying the suffering of people all over the world.
The articles which I chose empower people through the means that they possess as followers of Christ. Some of the articles show the compassion showed the underprivaleged in the area's where these people lived. George Mueller didn't have to travel very far to see a deep need for providing food for the starving orphans in Bristol, England. He lived in Bristol, England, and although he traveled all over to world, preaching the gospel of Christ, he lived where he worked. Because he lived where he worked, this enabled him to find the needs of the people, and fulfill the needs of the people.
Last week I had mentioned the life of John Wesley. Also John Wesley worked where he lived. Sometimes I think that our thoughts are large, because then it would mean that I don't have to touch, hold, handle, and be involved in the everyday aspects of someone else's life. Jesus lived where he worked, in and among the people. If we look at the life of Jesus, some statements he made may seem mean, such as, "I only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew 15:24) What Jesus meant was not that He wasn't for the world, but he was sent for a specific purpose at that time. I think that today we would think that this was too small a thing. It wasn't global enough. I believe that people are sent all over the earth, but specifically for this project, I am focusing on U.S. economic issues, but a different method of effecting change. Not necessarily from a perspective of a new entitlement program, or eradicating big business, although from reading some of my group members' blogs, I have been educated to the need for change. I think the laws that have been established already, if enforced will be sufficient for change.
Sometimes some of the programs that we believe help people, do not help, but allow them to remain subserviant to a structure which does not enable them to be free. The articles I believe will enable some to think that in the light of the gospel of Christ. Meant for the "poor", but that they would not remain, "poor."
Some of the objectives raised to some of my articles may be that it is too simple, or how does this change the corrupt governments, including the corruption within our own government. I do believe that through men and women, sincerely attempting to change the governments structure, they may, but socialism has proved to corrupt, coup's do not usually work, due to the bloodshed thing, so maybe the problem is really a "spiritual one." I have personally seen though how one person, myself can effect natural change in an environment, so it is possible. The way I did it though was because I was in a position to effect change and was enabled to do so by the government. I was placed there for a purpose.
The articles which I chose empower people through the means that they possess as followers of Christ. Some of the articles show the compassion showed the underprivaleged in the area's where these people lived. George Mueller didn't have to travel very far to see a deep need for providing food for the starving orphans in Bristol, England. He lived in Bristol, England, and although he traveled all over to world, preaching the gospel of Christ, he lived where he worked. Because he lived where he worked, this enabled him to find the needs of the people, and fulfill the needs of the people.
Last week I had mentioned the life of John Wesley. Also John Wesley worked where he lived. Sometimes I think that our thoughts are large, because then it would mean that I don't have to touch, hold, handle, and be involved in the everyday aspects of someone else's life. Jesus lived where he worked, in and among the people. If we look at the life of Jesus, some statements he made may seem mean, such as, "I only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew 15:24) What Jesus meant was not that He wasn't for the world, but he was sent for a specific purpose at that time. I think that today we would think that this was too small a thing. It wasn't global enough. I believe that people are sent all over the earth, but specifically for this project, I am focusing on U.S. economic issues, but a different method of effecting change. Not necessarily from a perspective of a new entitlement program, or eradicating big business, although from reading some of my group members' blogs, I have been educated to the need for change. I think the laws that have been established already, if enforced will be sufficient for change.
Sometimes some of the programs that we believe help people, do not help, but allow them to remain subserviant to a structure which does not enable them to be free. The articles I believe will enable some to think that in the light of the gospel of Christ. Meant for the "poor", but that they would not remain, "poor."
Some of the objectives raised to some of my articles may be that it is too simple, or how does this change the corrupt governments, including the corruption within our own government. I do believe that through men and women, sincerely attempting to change the governments structure, they may, but socialism has proved to corrupt, coup's do not usually work, due to the bloodshed thing, so maybe the problem is really a "spiritual one." I have personally seen though how one person, myself can effect natural change in an environment, so it is possible. The way I did it though was because I was in a position to effect change and was enabled to do so by the government. I was placed there for a purpose.
posted by Paul M. Pace | 6:53 PM
1 Comments:
Paul - I figured out why those links under recent posts are bleeding onto the rest of the page - its because you are putting the URLs at the title of the blog. So come up with a name for each post and then just put the link inside each post. Does that make any sense? email me if you have any questions.
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