As the Christian Church moves further into the 21st century God longs for people who will pray from their hearts, 'Lord, do what you want to do'.
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Four reasons for being a Christian.... (1)I accept scientific understanding, including the processes of evolution, but I do not believe that human life with all its qualities has no other level of explanation....
Paul says he has learned the secret, in whatever circumstances, to be content in them (Philippians 4.11-12). I was once tempted to write this Bible reference in the Comments column of a dreadful guesthouse in Newcastle - but in the end was content not to. Paul has known contrasts in his life - substantially different situations at different times of well-offness and deprivation....
Hope Song.... Acts 2.42-7.... Names of Jesus.... I am happy for these to be used. They are in familiar metres and tunes suggested from 'Hymns and Psalms' are suggestions only.
From experiences of my own through the last thirty years and from very many experiences recorded by others I have learned more about listening to God in this mysterious way that comes through impression. Of course we should recognise what purely human elements may be at work. Yet it can be an authentic way in which God communicates....
God our Father,
Your will be done through your Church.
We do not ask it with passive resignation
but in active pursuit of what pleases you.
Risen Jesus,
Do what is in your own heart to do,
Drawing many more to be your disciples.
Come, Holy Spirit.
Show us your fresh touch on inherited things.
Help us beyond the limits of our own resource.
Lord God, your purposes.
Jesus Christ, your passion.
Holy Spirit, your power.