{"id":746,"date":"2014-01-11T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2014-01-11T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:44:20","slug":"its-all-about-him-not-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/its-all-about-him-not-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s all about Him – not a cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copied and pasted from my friend Heather Pound’s blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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“People in the poorest countries that rely heaviest on aid are human beings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dquite often, very thoughtful human beings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith equally valuable and important places at the table of God’s mission in the world as anyone else……Jesus was\u00c2\u00a0not known as one who dished out meals to prostitutes and other vulnerable sinners. He sat with them and ate with them. Doing mission, then, probably needs to look more like a shared meal than a soup kitchen, with none of us bound in gratitude except to God alone.”
\n-Rachel Marie Stone<\/p>\n

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I believe in Justice,
\nBut I am not a preacher of the gospel of Justice
\nBut the gospel of Christ who calls us to Justice
\nI Believe in Love
\nBut I am not a preacher of the gospel of Love
\nBut the gospel of Christ who calls us to Love
\nI Am\u00c2\u00a0committed\u00c2\u00a0to Peace
\nBut I am not a preacher of the gospel of Peace
\nBut the gospel of Christ who calls us to Peace
\nI believe in the value of the simple life
\nBut I am not a preacher of the simple life
\nBut the gospel of Christ that calls us to the simple life
\nLet us be aware of the ultimate plagiarism of borrowing some great concepts from Jesus, then running off proclaiming these concepts and not sharing the Christ that empowers these concepts.
\n-Myron S. Augsburger<\/p>\n

It’s all Him. \u00c2\u00a0Any gratitude belongs to Him, both\u00c2\u00a0of the receiver and the one\u00c2\u00a0privileged\u00c2\u00a0to give in His name. \u00c2\u00a0Any presentation of peace, love, justice, hope, freedom is hollow without pointing the way to Him and giving credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n

Him. \u00c2\u00a0In us, but NOT us. \u00c2\u00a0No one better than the next—but infinitely valuable all the same.
\n“And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father………Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ.”<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Col. 3: 17, 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copied and pasted from my friend Heather Pound’s blog   “People in the poorest countries that rely heaviest on aid are human beings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dquite often, very thoughtful human beings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith equally valuable and important places at the table of God’s mission in the world as anyone else……Jesus was\u00c2\u00a0not known as one who dished out meals to prostitutes … <\/p>\n

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