Caring For People God’s Way ~ Week One

Well, it’s Thursday of week one in my second summer term of eight weeks and although I feel overwhelmed with the amount of tasks we are expected to complete in only eight weeks time, I’m really enjoying the course material so far.

One of our text books — Caring for People God’s Way — has clips of written confirmations scattered through-out to my beliefs and several things that God has put on my heart… Some of these things weigh so heavily they often cause me to weep as I pray about them… but I’ve recently turned into a big cry baby or so it would seem! And since it is often hard for me to speak of things, which make me cry, I’m going to share a few quotes from our class text that center around a “few” of  them here.

I often jest and state that “this page is a working draft” in my writings, but I’m really not jesting this time.  So if you’d like to read the completed post or follow-ups, you really will have to check back periodically. I’ll be writing each week, about various things, as I feel inspired to do so…

Living in a Hard-Hearted Age

In “Caring for People God’s Way” the author writes that Charles Colson asserts “there is only one way people will genuinely ‘hear’ the gospel message: by observing how the church itself lives… They should see in the Christian community a unifying love that resonates with their own deepest longings-and points to a supernatural source.” [Clinton & Ohlschlager, 2005, p. 12]

…and this is not only a statement in which I wholely agree with, but it is something that I also deeply long for and pray about daily.

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“God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Savior, the Prince of Peace: Give us grace seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions; take away all hatred and prejudice, and whatever else may hinder us from godly union and concord; that, as there is but one Body and one Spirit, one hope of our calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may be all of one heart and of one soul, united in one holy bond of truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”