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.gif) The strap line of the Grace Project – “Discover who you really are” – articulates the heart of the first phase of our journey.
As we move into the next phase of life with these initial concepts, which we call birth truths, now embedded our focus is on becoming who we really are.Indeed there is a saying by Ian Thomas which states, “There are two types of people in the world – those who live a life that they don’t have and those who have a life that they don’t live!”
Maybe you have caught yourself thinking from time to time that there must be more to the Christian life than this? The Good News is – There is!
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Join Dr. Steve McVey (Grace Walk Ministries USA) and Paul Anderson-Walsh (The Grace Project UK) for their only two joint conferences of 2008. Steve & Paul will be teaching through the book of Galatians over the two days under the heading “Radical Freedom”.
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 I wrote this book in order to put the magic back into the Kingdom for all those who went to the Charismatic Disneyland of Evangelical Christianity only to discover that they would never be spiritually tall enough to go on any of the rides. By Paul Anderson-Walsh
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The Bonsai Conspiracy definitely belongs in my list of the most influential books I have read. Why? Because it is a book that breeds HOPE, a fresh, vital, living HOPE, of the genuine possibility of developing that life of grace and freedom, which Christ promised his followers and which so many Christians get to talk about but so few of us actually get to live. Much of the Christian literature that I have read, seems to suggest that we can self-improve our way into Heaven.
If only we could teach ourselves to: think in the right way; act towards others in the right way; feel (or completely ignore our feelings!) in the right way, pray and do our devotions in the right way, THEN, if we get it right and do enough of it, God will come and things will be better. In Bonsai, Paul Anderson-Walsh directly counteracts this 'self-improvement' lie. He speaks about self-replacement and NOT self-improvement. What a relief it was to finally hear this truth! He believes that it is only when we have finally exhausted our own resources and effort, and hit “burnout”, that dependence on the False self is destroyed and we can thus truly begin to live according to God's grace and strength. - to buy click here
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 “This book will inspire and encourage you. It will indeed cause you to feel safe and sound. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself experiencing an inward sigh of relief as you read. The three phases of Christian maturity discussed in chapters four and five stimulated my mind. My emotions were stirred by a renewed sense of deep joy as I read the extensive description of agape in chapter seven. The tenth chapter is one of the best apologetics for the security of the believer that I have seen. I wish every new Christian would read that chapter within the first month of their new life in Christ.”
Dr. Steve McVey
This book is the first in a trilogy that will take you on a journey into spiritual maturity. This journey is a pilgrimage into wholeness in God and oneness with God. There are three clear phases of the Christian life; the child phase, the teen phase and the father phase. Each phase has its climax the child phase results in confidence in God; in the teen phase we appropriate the competence of God and in the father phase we become the confidants of God. As we journey through each phase you will be drawn into a deeper and more profound level of intimacy with Christ. But it begins with a revelation; the child’s revelation that first and foremost you believe that God is Love and loves you and that and secondly all your sins past, present and future have been forgiven. - to buy click here
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Love Can Only Be Kept by Being Given Away |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
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Love cannot be kept it can only be given away.
From the writings of Thomas Merton
A happiness that is sought for our ourselves alone can never be found: for happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. There is a false momentary happiness in self-satisfaction, but always leads to sorrow because it narrows and darkens our spirit. True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, and therefore, the potential of such love is without limit. Infinite sharing is the law of God’s inner-self. He has made the sharing of ourselves the law of our own being, so that it is in loving others that we best love ourselves. In disinterested activity we be fulfil our own capacities to act and to be.
Yet there can never be happiness in compulsion. It is not enough for love to be shared: it must be shared freely. That is to say that it must be given, not merely taken. Unselfish love that is poured out upon selfish objects do not bring perfect happiness: not because love requires a reward for loving but because it rests in the happiness of the beloved. And if the one loved receives the love selfishly, the lover is not satisfied. He sees that his love has failed ro make the beloved happy. It has not awakened his capacity for unselfish love.
Hence the paradox that unselfish love cannot rest perfectly except in a love that is perfectly reciprocated: because it knows that the only true peace is found in selfless love. Selfless love consents to be loved selflessly for the sake of the beloved. In so doing, it perfects itself.
The gift of love is the gift of power and the capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by giving it away, and can only be given perfectly when it is also received.
I think Merton points us in a godward direction - this surely is what it is all about
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