Thank you Jack, this is helping me to see that my goals may not have had real outcomes, mostly because I didn't focus on the process enough.
I did find this sentence to be an excellent challenge, "Instead, they placed that result squarely in God’s hands while they focused on handling their process properly."
"Dialing in" our process as a congregation, or eldership or individual, can be more difficult than we realize. Like Daniel and his friends, who knew what type of a leader Nebuchadnezzar was, prepared for what they would face in the future.
So, how do we prepare for our future and not let apathy or complacency grow out of the fear of past and possible future failures? I would love to hear more about how we can "dial in" our process. Certainly ignorance of the scripture is the first step, as you have said many times before, but what do we do when ignorance is not the issue?
I think one of the best things we can do is to start small. Faithful in little, faithful in much. So, what are the smallest, most immediate needs I should be taking on today. For example, I can’t get somebody baptized in a day, but I can start praying for them today. So that’s what I need to be doing.
RE: It’s far more important for the mind of Christ’s indwelling Holy Spirit to try to build a better carnal-minded process that could increase your time in the Word than for Him to have you lukewarmly continue with the impotent carnal-minded process that fails to perfectly hit a one-time self righteous goal.
Or, maybe you self righteously have an evangelistic target but your unregenerate carnal-mind is worried that you might push them away if you bring up Jesus. But evangelistic results are out of our flesh’s self-willed control. All we can religiously do is consider our carnal minded process.
Yes, we want to get through the Bible, bring lukewarm foolish virgins in Lucifer’s Laodicean Church to Christ, and so forth. But putting the right carnal-minded processes in place has a way bigger impact than simply reaching a fleshly goal.
Thank you Jack, this is helping me to see that my goals may not have had real outcomes, mostly because I didn't focus on the process enough.
I did find this sentence to be an excellent challenge, "Instead, they placed that result squarely in God’s hands while they focused on handling their process properly."
"Dialing in" our process as a congregation, or eldership or individual, can be more difficult than we realize. Like Daniel and his friends, who knew what type of a leader Nebuchadnezzar was, prepared for what they would face in the future.
So, how do we prepare for our future and not let apathy or complacency grow out of the fear of past and possible future failures? I would love to hear more about how we can "dial in" our process. Certainly ignorance of the scripture is the first step, as you have said many times before, but what do we do when ignorance is not the issue?
Thank you again for your Bible 101 posts.
I think one of the best things we can do is to start small. Faithful in little, faithful in much. So, what are the smallest, most immediate needs I should be taking on today. For example, I can’t get somebody baptized in a day, but I can start praying for them today. So that’s what I need to be doing.
RE: It’s far more important for the mind of Christ’s indwelling Holy Spirit to try to build a better carnal-minded process that could increase your time in the Word than for Him to have you lukewarmly continue with the impotent carnal-minded process that fails to perfectly hit a one-time self righteous goal.
Or, maybe you self righteously have an evangelistic target but your unregenerate carnal-mind is worried that you might push them away if you bring up Jesus. But evangelistic results are out of our flesh’s self-willed control. All we can religiously do is consider our carnal minded process.
Yes, we want to get through the Bible, bring lukewarm foolish virgins in Lucifer’s Laodicean Church to Christ, and so forth. But putting the right carnal-minded processes in place has a way bigger impact than simply reaching a fleshly goal.