Love Your Enemies Meaning in Matthew 5:44 Explained biblestudytools.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biblestudytools.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Process, Development, Journey, Relationship. Mysticism is dynamic, not static. More verb than noun. It’s something we
do in response to the love of God.
Christian Mysticism begins with God. In this dance, God is Fred Astaire and the human being(s) whether a single, individual, or the collective “Body of Christ” is Ginger Rogers. God leads, we follow. God asks, we answer. God initiates, we respond.
And what is at stake is more than just a dance. We are offered a
relationship there’s a reason why marriage is a metaphor that shows up again and again in the writings of the mystics. Mysticism is a process of entering into an ever-deepening relationship with God: from an initial experience of longing or desire, to a gradual growth of friendship, intimacy, and love, to the consummating bliss of nondual union.
The First and Most Broken Commandment desiringgod.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from desiringgod.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Herald on Sunday letters: The continuing decline in interest in the Christian faith is tragic for humanity I NOTE Neil Mackay’s The Big Read article (“A crisis of faith”, April 4) in which the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair, is reported as maintaining that “Christianity isn’t about those who like to sing hymns on Sunday, it’s about being where people are vulnerable, fragile and broken – and being alongside them.” I read elsewhere that the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Easter message referred to the church getting “involved with resisting injustice, treasuring our world, tending the needy – it’s why Christians throughout the centuries have lived with compassion and love for all who are excluded and marginalised.”
The Resurrection Matters wau.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wau.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.