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The meek bridle their lust for power and live to serve others. “The ‘politics’ of the Kingdom,” says Scott Bessenecker, “has more to do with meekness, submission and dying to self than it does with exercising authority to increase my share in this life (emphasis mine).”[i] Some outside observers evaluate Jesus’ words about being good …
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"The meek inherit the earth." The meek live as though they possess nothing and are therefore the most likely candidates to inherit everything. They don’t conquer or take over the earth, instead they “inherit” it from their Father who knows that these are the kind of people he can trust with his planet. Scott Bessenecker …
“The problem with our “change the world” rhetoric is that it is too often a thinly veiled grasp for power and a quest for dominance—things that are antithetical to the way Jesus calls his disciples to live.” Brian Zahnd Every time in history the Church has tried to raise the Christian flag over a nation, a …
How To Inherit The Earth: Submitting Ourselves to a Servant Savior by Scott Bessenecker, the Associate Director for Missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, is simply the best book I’ve read in years on spiritual influence. I wish I had understood and practiced the things that he unpacks in this small book about the ways of …
In the last piece of this series I’d like to share about how our reckless reactions to terrorism negatively influence our witness to the world. How hysteria and hostility smother our witness We fear loss of power, money, safety, so we wrap ourselves in insulation. What we should fear is suffocating in the insulation. Scott …
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