Christ Church
Christ Church Sermon -The Land Between Week 2
Locations & Times
Christ Church Mt. View Campus
2416 Zion Church Rd, Hickory, NC 28602, USA
Saturday 6:30 PM
PLAIN TRUTH: Godly Meltdown prevents fatal meltdown.
1. Is it good?
2. Whose glory is it?
Prescription for Melting Down the Meltdown:
a) Confession
E. Stanley Jones wrote of the importance of confession in our spiritual disciplines: I know that there are certain mental and emotional and moral and spiritual attitudes that are anti-health: anger, resentments, fear, worry, desire to dominate, self-preoccupation, guilts, sexual impurity, jealousy, a lack of creative activity, inferiorities, a lack of love. These are the twelve apostles of ill health.
So in prayer I’ve learned to surrender these things to Jesus Christ as they appear. I once asked Dr. Kagawa: “What is prayer?” And he answered: “Prayer is self-surrender.” I agree. It is primarily self-surrender, blanket surrender, day by day. It is all we know and all we don’t know. “All we don’t know” covers the unfolding future and involves problems as they arise. So in prayer if any of these twelve things arise, and they do arise, for no one is free from the suggestion of anyone of them, I’ve learned how to deal with them: not to fight them, but to surrender them to Jesus Christ, and say, “Now, Lord, you have this.”
b) Worship - honoring the Sabbath.
c) Hope in surrender
a) Confession
E. Stanley Jones wrote of the importance of confession in our spiritual disciplines: I know that there are certain mental and emotional and moral and spiritual attitudes that are anti-health: anger, resentments, fear, worry, desire to dominate, self-preoccupation, guilts, sexual impurity, jealousy, a lack of creative activity, inferiorities, a lack of love. These are the twelve apostles of ill health.
So in prayer I’ve learned to surrender these things to Jesus Christ as they appear. I once asked Dr. Kagawa: “What is prayer?” And he answered: “Prayer is self-surrender.” I agree. It is primarily self-surrender, blanket surrender, day by day. It is all we know and all we don’t know. “All we don’t know” covers the unfolding future and involves problems as they arise. So in prayer if any of these twelve things arise, and they do arise, for no one is free from the suggestion of anyone of them, I’ve learned how to deal with them: not to fight them, but to surrender them to Jesus Christ, and say, “Now, Lord, you have this.”
b) Worship - honoring the Sabbath.
c) Hope in surrender
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