Comments on: Secular or sacred? https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/ on Life and Love Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6288 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:05:29 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6288 In reply to beverley.

Yes, I heard the “but” coming. 🙂 That’s not what I’ve been taught, but I think there’s still so much we haven’t figured out yet about the Trinity so it’s good to listen to each other. I appreciate you sharing your viewpoint.

I know that we do agree on the desire to live our lives in a way that honors God in all we do–and I like how you phrased this: “if we are with the low in body, if we bend to help the needy, the forgotten, then the Spirit is right there with us.”

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6285 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:58:42 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6285 In reply to Mia.

That’s a beautiful truth, Mia:

“…the whole world becomes a sanctuary…”

Thanks for sharing Tozer’s wisdom–a perfect fit.

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6284 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:56:56 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6284 In reply to tcavey.

So glad you tied in the DC Talk song. Love that one. We sometimes forget that unbelievers do pay attention to whether or not we’re walking our talk. And that includes seeing if we’re accepting God’s GRACE to save us instead of depending on our own self-efforts.

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6283 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:54:19 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6283 In reply to Rick.

I’m glad you’re going to read this book too, Rick. I hope you like it even half as much as I did. It made me think through quite a few things I’d been believing.

]]> By: beverley https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6241 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:31:12 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6241 I have been taught the Trinity differently than most church teach. I see them has three separate beings, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ having a purified exalted body of flesh and blood and the Holy Ghost being a Spirit so that it can dwell in us.
I agree that all things are spiritual and therefore so are our lives (can you hear the but) but the Holy Ghost will only stay with us if we stay away from places and things that pollute our minds and our bodies with the worldly. I am sure if i were to go out and party in some of the less salubrious places in the city the Holy Ghost will try and persuade me not to go but then would leave me the minute i walk through the door of such an establishment until i came again. However if we are with the low in body, if we bend to help the needy, the forgotten then the Spirit is right there with us. I hope that makes sense.

]]> By: Mia https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6184 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:14:12 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6184 Dear Lisa
A.W. Tozer said in his little book, In Pursuit Of God, that when we offer everything we do to our Pappa as a gift of love asking Him for grace to do it for His glory, the whole world becomes a sanctuary where everything we do, apart from sin, becomes a sacred act!
Blessings XX
Mia

]]> By: tcavey https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6181 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:02:42 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6181 Well said! We need to remember we are ambassadors for Christ EVERYWHERE!

your post reminds me of the DC Talk song “What if I stumble”- “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dc+talk/what+if+i+stumble_20037744.html

]]> By: Rick https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6179 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:32:15 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6179 Read this, clicked there – waiting for my copy now – these are things I’ve believed for years in the sense that we’ve been mainlining lies disguised by the fact they seem like there is truth in them. Thanks, Lisa! 🙂

]]> By: Lisa notes... https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6148 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:12:30 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6148 In reply to Hutch.

I love that God works that way, leading us to what we need, when we need it. Glad that the words here helped you today, Hutch.

Yes, this is exactly about identity–who we really are, not who we think we are. And who we are is who HE says we are.

This is an awesome book. I read it on my own about a year ago, then did it as a book club with the ladies in my family this past summer and loved the truths in it all over again. It’s very centered on Christ being the one who’s finished the work on our behalf. We simply respond to his grace.

]]> By: Hutch https://lisanotes.com/secular-or-sacred/#comment-6142 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:20:33 +0000 https://www.lisanotes.com/?p=1407#comment-6142 It’s interesting to me how I’m led to places where there is something that I need to read. I clicked over from your comment on Joseph Pote’s site and bam… something that speaks to a current question that I have.

For me this is about identity (who I think I am vs. who He designed me to be) and am I living it out correctly.

I need to read this book.. Thanks for sharing this.

-Blessings

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