Today we continue our short series on “Practices of our Faith.”
We often think of religion as confined to certain texts or spaces, and the practices of faith as things we do in addition to “regular life.” But our faith can be so much more — actually, that’s what Jesus’ life is an example of—he challenges us to live our faith—having it guide our life’s purpose and inspire the seeming minutiae of our daily routines.
In this series, we’re exploring just three Christian practices that go beyond the typical practices we think of, like reading scripture, prayer, worship, and service. These additional practices particularly speak to our lives as we move into the busy holiday season—but really, they apply to life year round.
Today, we’re looking at the practice of “household economics.”
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Today we continue our short series on “Practices of our Faith.”
We often think of religion as confined to certain texts or spaces, and the practices of faith as things we do in addition to “regular life.” But our faith can be so much more — actually, that’s what Jesus’ life is an example of—he challenges us to live our faith—having it guide our life’s purpose and inspire the seeming minutiae of our daily routines.
In this series, we’re exploring just three Christian practices that go beyond the typical practices we think of, like reading scripture, prayer, worship, and service. These additional practices particularly speak to our lives as we move into the busy holiday season—but really, they apply to life year round.
Today, we’re looking at the practice of “household economics.”
For the past few weeks, we’ve been taking a look at some occasions in scripture when people of faith had “holy meltdowns”—when pillars of our faith like Moses, Jonah, and Elijah had big emotions.
Because right now, there seem to be a lot of big emotions in the world. Something that might have bothered or annoyed us before, now has the potential to really set us off. It’s like we each have less of an emotional buffer, and then when you put us all together in society, we feed off each other and reactions get really intense really quickly.
Traditionally, the church has told us that "good" or "faithful" Christians don't let their emotions get the best of them. But the truth is, there are times in everyone's life when they have "big emotions." Sometimes, even the most faithful people—those who love God and serve Christ with their whole lives reach a breaking point. In this series, we’re looking at these “holy meltdowns” to see how God worked in or through them, and think about how God works through us, too, in similar situations.
We’ve looked at holy meltdowns in the prophets and in Jesus himself, and today we see a different kind of moment—a relational meltdown between two apostles: Paul and Barnabas.
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Today we continue our short series on “Practices of our Faith.”
We often think of religion as confined to certain texts or spaces, and the practices of faith as things we do in addition to “regular life.” But our faith can be so much more — actually, that’s what Jesus’ life is an example of—he challenges us to live our faith—having it guide our life’s purpose and inspire the seeming minutiae of our daily routines.
In this series, we’re exploring just three Christian practices that go beyond the typical practices we think of, like reading scripture, prayer, worship, and service. These additional practices particularly speak to our lives as we move into the busy holiday season—but really, they apply to life year round.
Today, we’re looking at the practice of “household economics.”
