Spiritual People

For those who were at service on Sunday, November 11, 2012, a few bullet points to jog your memory:

• Who are you?
• What is your profession?
• I suggest the answer to both these questions is, "Spiritual person."
• Spiritual person is our profession.  Anything else we do in the world is our avocation.
• A spiritual person demonstrates the following three characteristics (among others):
• "Risk Taker"
• Step out and follow God, even when it's not in the normal flow of the people around you
• "Visionary"
• Lives for what is forthcoming.  Sees the good, the perfect pattern of God, and they are willing to do whatever needs to be done now to let that pattern emerge.
• "Outrageous"
• We have found our spirituality because we were looking for something that didn't fit the normal flow, something that we could use every day of our lives to live in an unusual, fulfilling, incredible space where we are aware of God's presence every moment in our lives. When we become willing to be outrageous enough to see God's design for our lives, we become willing to do what it will take to fulfill that design.
•  Jesus demonstrated these characteristics
• "Risk Taker"
• He dared to challenge the scribes and the Pharisees 
• "Visionary"
• He looked around at a time when people had very little, when they were struggling to find their daily bread, and said to them, "The kingdom of heaven is within you, and it is God's good pleasure to give you the fullness of that kingdom."
• "Outrageous"
• He ate with publicans and sinners; forgave an adulteress; touched lepers; stood before the tomb of his friend Lazarus and said, "Come forth," knowing absolutely that his friend would arise; was crucified, died, buried, and rose up.  Then He goes an outrageous step further and says to us, "These things that I have done, you can do also, and even greater things."  Definitely, He was not your average person
• What must it be like to live within and from the power and Presence of God?
• Take the risk of the visionary and in outrageous contentment live that life.

God Bless you.
 
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To read the complete text of "Spiritual People" from Sunday, November 11, 2012,  click here.