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Picking your party According to William Barclay

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I’m reading William Barclay’s commentary on the letters to the Corinthians and his commentary on chapter 3 is amazing for 2019.

“This identification with some party is the acceptance of slavery by those who should be kings. In fact they are masters of all things, because they belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. The man who gives his strength and his heart to some little splinter of a party has surrendered everything to a petty thing, when he could have entered into possession of a fellowship and a love as wide as the universe. He has confined into narrow limits a life which should be limitless in it’s outlook.

Leaving Room for God or Bumping Him Out of Vengence

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Romans 12:19-21 NET

19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

If we repay, or take justice into our own hands, we risk becoming the oppressor. We risk beating the evil of our enemy by being more severe or untrue or unjust than they were. When that happens, we take away the room for God's justice, because He always takes the side of the persecuted or oppressed underdog.

1 Corinthians 6:7

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

He is saying that it would be better to be defeated than to risk man-made justice that threw dirt on God's face.

How many times do you get in a fight (maybe this just happens between husbands and wives?) and afterwards you see that it was an argument over less than $10? After the fact, don't you ever think "Man, I would totally pay $20 for peace and reconciliation right now!"

Romans 12:19-21 NET

19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

WCAGLS Session 6: Bob Goff

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Session 6 Bob Goff

"I'm emotionally incontinent!"

Getting our signals wrong. In Uganda, our american motion for hello is Ugandan for "Follow Me!"

Stalkers find out all kinds of information about people they don't spend time with.
"I was stalking Jesus, and it was freaking both of us out!"

1 John 3:16 – we should lay down our lives for each other…let us not love with words and speech, but with words and truth!

  1. Who are you?
  2. What do you want?

If you get the answer to those two questions right, you'll be a great leader.

Moving from agreeing from Jesus to DOING STUFF.

He built a chapel for his daughter and his son in law! They built it together.

You guys can do a lot of things! Let's tease out the thing that Jesus made you to do.

Live a life worthy of the calling that you received! you, not me, not your brother.

Like a polaroid, you have to wait and give it time to develop. Sometimes as leaders we want to jump in and do stuff for people and keep them from developing.

This guy is so freaking intense.

If we weren't afraid, we would all do all of the stuff God gives us to do and it would be awesome.

He acted like a wax museum statue and two little old ladies came up and tugged on his beard. He stayed still so that he wouldn't kill them. He was a poser. He was acting.

Life is like an interrobang. It's an exclamation and a question all at once.

Bob adopts this 8 year old kid from Uganda so he could have surgery in the US.

This guy's stories are to awesome to take notes.

Every Thursday he quits something. He is continually making margins for Jesus to step into.

God wants to show off. DO STUFF and watch and see what God does!

Lazira prison was made for 200 inmates, but it holds 3,000 people.

The guy that maimed Charlie told Bob that he needed forgiveness. "I am going to die in this prison, I need to be forgiven." and Kabi, the most evil man you can imagine, became a Christian. He is now reading the Bible and wants to do what it says.

Kabi stood up and preached the gospel to 3,000 men on death row.

Then he baptized 3/4 of them with a cup of water.

Then he forgave Bob, who got him busted and landed into prison for a life sentence.

Ok, that was the best talk yet.