More random thoughts from Bishop Ough:
- Most of our worship design & preaching doesn’t bring people to a place of vulnerability, so we don’t do altar calls because they feel fake
- Some felt that we try to manipulate people’s feelings but not of the questions are authentic.
- The Holy Spirit does the work on people’s hearts.
- Use testimonials to give glimpses of the answers.
- We should no longer appoint students to dead and dying places. It’s not the place to try your wings.
- Asking questions demands relationship.
- I can’t call people to a place I haven’t gone.
- How do we put into practice something we’ve never experienced?
- One reason we don’t pray for healing is because we’ve never seen it happen authentically. We’re also afraid God’s grace won’t touch that person.
- We need to go places where new things are done authentically.
- Many preachers preach like they know the answer. They don’t draw people into the questions.
- Do you go with the question so you can get to the deeper questions? We have to be okay with the conversation that might be uncovered.
Chapel Sermon – Ash Wednesday
- The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit.
- God is not an option we can take or leave as we find useful.
- Repentence means having a sense of being away. We’ve wandered away. We’ve looked in the wrong places for our happiness.
- It’s easier to believe we are God, not that we’ve wandered from God.
- Have you created any messes you’re sorry about?
- Have you wrecked anything lately that you wish you hadn’t?
- If your heart is hurting, why not open it up and make it a place for God to dwell?
- Rending and returning is impossible without God’s gracious presence.
- Turn and point your life toward Christ.
- Just because God is gracious, doesn’t mean we should take our good old time.
- It seems a disaster that God forgives us week and after week.
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