SPIRITUAL PORNOGRAPHY dysfunction DYSFUNCTION confusion hurt feelings anger

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SPIRITUAL PORNOGRAPHY

SPIRITUAL PORNOGRAPHY

dysfunction

dysfunction

DYSFUNCTION confusion hurt feelings anger multiple sexual partners addiction poverty

DYSFUNCTION confusion hurt feelings anger multiple sexual partners addiction poverty

better ideas better words better plans

better ideas better words better plans

addicted to dysfunction

addicted to dysfunction

CHRISTINE POHL: LIVING INTO COMMUNITY Fantasizing § about something that God has not offered

CHRISTINE POHL: LIVING INTO COMMUNITY Fantasizing § about something that God has not offered § by ignoring what God has already offered as sufficient for abundant life

EPHESIANS 1: 3 God… has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual

EPHESIANS 1: 3 God… has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

scarcity there is not enough I lack what I need to be OK more

scarcity there is not enough I lack what I need to be OK more

SPIRITUAL PORNOGRAPHY what God has made available to me is not enough for my

SPIRITUAL PORNOGRAPHY what God has made available to me is not enough for my well-being; I need more, something else.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ingratitude is monstrous

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ingratitude is monstrous

OPPOSITE OF INGRATITUDE Gratitude Gratefulness Appreciation Consideration Thanks Appreciativeness Thankfulness Thanksgiving

OPPOSITE OF INGRATITUDE Gratitude Gratefulness Appreciation Consideration Thanks Appreciativeness Thankfulness Thanksgiving

PSALM 95; JOHN 3, 6 1 CORINTHIANS 10; HEBREWS 3 -4 Don’t let your

PSALM 95; JOHN 3, 6 1 CORINTHIANS 10; HEBREWS 3 -4 Don’t let your heart be calcified in ingratitude!

KARL BARTH To be Christian… is to be grateful

KARL BARTH To be Christian… is to be grateful

GRATITUDE If we are in Christ, there is no lack. There is enough. I

GRATITUDE If we are in Christ, there is no lack. There is enough. I am ok today, because everything I need for flourishing is available to me in Christ – even in the midst of dysfunction and brokenness.

mission does not run on dysfunction mission runs on the reality that there is

mission does not run on dysfunction mission runs on the reality that there is enough in Christ

learn to see beyond dysfunction & embrace gratitude

learn to see beyond dysfunction & embrace gratitude

easy to allow our frustrations & disappointments to metabolize into ingratitude

easy to allow our frustrations & disappointments to metabolize into ingratitude

easy to allow our frustrations & disappointments to metabolize into ingratitude harder but more

easy to allow our frustrations & disappointments to metabolize into ingratitude harder but more fruitful to allow our frustrations & disappointments to be met by the fullness of God’s grace to metabolize into gratitude

practice notice choose

practice notice choose

cultivating gratitude practicing | noticing | choosing it is a fundamental missional posture

cultivating gratitude practicing | noticing | choosing it is a fundamental missional posture

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 16 -17 So from now on we regard no one from

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 16 -17 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 18 -19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 18 -19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 20 -21 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were

1 CORINTHIANS 5: 20 -21 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

settle

settle

2 CORINTHIANS 10: 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up

2 CORINTHIANS 10: 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord

‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. ’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. ’ There is no commandment greater than these.

2 CORINTHIANS 10: 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up

2 CORINTHIANS 10: 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

EPHESIANS 1: 3 -8 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord

EPHESIANS 1: 3 -8 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ… In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us.

EPHESIANS 1: 17 -19 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus

EPHESIANS 1: 17 -19 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

EPHESIANS 1: 17 -19 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be

EPHESIANS 1: 17 -19 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Jesus & only Jesus who § changes us § transforms us § sets us

Jesus & only Jesus who § changes us § transforms us § sets us free

‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord

‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. ’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. ’ There is no commandment greater than these.