Conversation today with some brothers about what it looks like to “sow in the spirit” and some of the clearest examples I can find in this exhausting and weary season is just loving my kids with whatever patience and kindness and long-suffering the spirit provides…and pleading for more. It’s amazing how that ”sowing” would not register on the “Christian service” checkboxes I grew up with in church.
I appreciated your perspective in discussing what you learned from those flannel boards. I was also an 80’s kid, but wasn’t raised in the church and had NO idea what a flannel board even was until I was almost an adult. It’s important when we are having conversations like this for words like “love” to be defined very clearly. From the studies I have done, what our current culture defines as love looks very little like the love Jesus was talking about in the commandment to “love God and love others.” I wonder if you could define love in a subsequent post? Maybe you have already, and you could direct me to it?
Conversation today with some brothers about what it looks like to “sow in the spirit” and some of the clearest examples I can find in this exhausting and weary season is just loving my kids with whatever patience and kindness and long-suffering the spirit provides…and pleading for more. It’s amazing how that ”sowing” would not register on the “Christian service” checkboxes I grew up with in church.
I appreciated your perspective in discussing what you learned from those flannel boards. I was also an 80’s kid, but wasn’t raised in the church and had NO idea what a flannel board even was until I was almost an adult. It’s important when we are having conversations like this for words like “love” to be defined very clearly. From the studies I have done, what our current culture defines as love looks very little like the love Jesus was talking about in the commandment to “love God and love others.” I wonder if you could define love in a subsequent post? Maybe you have already, and you could direct me to it?