I started listening to Darrin Patrick after hearing him at PLANT! two weeks ago. I started reading "Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission" a couple of days ago too. I started downloading the Journey podcast a while ago, but started listen to it last week. God has definitely used it to deconstruct & reconstruct my thinking. To continue to get my focus off myself and back on the Savior which leads to reaching people.
Which leads to another sermon that's smacked me upside the head. As I was running late last night, the next message in the "Darkness Into Light" series was entitled "Getting Your Eyes Off Yourself". I was familiar with the text when I saw it come up on the screen & kinda knew what I was in for...but not really. Grateful for God using men like Darrin to speak truth. Oh to God that I would be a conduit of grace & not a cul-de-sac of intake. Glad to know that I haven't arrived & God's still working to shape, refine, & redefine me.
Love this text...it hits home:
"So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men." (Phil 2:1-7)
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