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Cardboard Testimonies

>> Friday, July 18, 2008

Way to go, Hillsong. Just beautiful. And you've left me in tears. Too cool!

3 comments:

AndyM July 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM: WOW. That was something else. Thanks for sharing that.

Andy
Unknown July 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM: Wow ~ I look forward to listening to it as well tomorrow when I don't have my earplugs in (couldn't sleep, am just browsing)~ even with just the visual I was in tears several times ~ thanks.
Kim July 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM: Powerful! The true testimony of what God does in people's lives.

It got me at the special needs child and I cried the rest of the way through.

"Real theological thinking, which is thinking with the mind of Christ, is hard to find in the practice of ministry. Without solid theological reflection, future leaders will be little more than pseudo-psychologists, pseudo-sociologists, pseudo-social workers. They will think of themselves as enablers, facilitators, role models, father or mother figures, big brothers or big sisters, and so on, and thus join the countless men and women who make a living by trying to help their fellow human beings to cope with the stresses and strains of everyday living.

"But that has little to do with Christian leadership because the Christian leader thinks, speaks, and acts in the name of Jesus, who came to free humanity from the power of death and open the way to eternal life. To be such a leader it is essential to be able to discern from moment to moment how God acts in human history and how personal, communal, national, and international events that occur during our lives can make us more and more sensitive to the ways in which we are led to the cross and through the cross to the resurrection."

(Henri J. M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership (New York: Crossroad, 1998) pp. 65-67

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