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Can you serve Jesus and still enjoy your life? Our lives will shrivel if we allow our passion for redemption to smother the pleasures of creation. Being a Christian must not become an obstacle to being human. But the problem is even worse in reverse: When we eliminate our earthly pleasures, we inevitably limit the reach of our heavenly purpose. If we want to attract people to Jesus, our lives must be attractive. God calls us to both heavenly purpose and earthly pleasure. These aims often compete. The afternoon I spent spreading mulch around my house was money and time I didn’t give to missions. Conversely, the week I spent teaching pastors in Liberia was a week I wasn’t home with my family. Heaven and earth may seem to compete, but when we look deeper we find they are actually complementary. A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people. Can you serve Jesus and still enjoy your life? Let me tell you a story... Releasing soon - Becoming Worldly Saints by Michael Wittmer zondervan/becoming-worldly-saints
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:00:01 +0000

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