Divine Intention: How God's Work in the Early Church Empowers Us Today
Larry Shallenberger takes a fresh look at the book of Acts to help you gain a deeper understanding of how God moved in the early church and what that means for you today.
Top Highlights
“The rushing wind let the first believers know that ‘breathing in God’ was a key to life in the Spirit. This metaphor helps us understand and express our relationship with the Holy Spirit in the language of dependency. The Holy Spirit offers life; we inhale the Spirit as if our spiritual life depended on it.” (source)
“. I’ve slowly learned, and am still learning, that ‘abundant life’ is a relational term.” (source)
“The burning bush is a symbol to help us understand that the Holy Spirit works through our brokenness” (source)
“. We get to be weak and broken, and he gets to burn through us without destroying us.” (source)
“Then church politics pushed you away. You experienced a lack of consistency between the values celebrated on Sunday morning and the way the church truly operated during the Tuesday night board meeting. Love and servanthood are triumphed from the pulpit on Sunday, but the ‘greatest of these’ is a good old-fashioned power play any other day of the week.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Divine Intention: How God's Work in the Early Church Empowers Us Today
- Author: Shallenberger, Larry
- Publisher: David C Cook
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781434765604
Larry Shallenberger is the pastor of Children's and Student Ministries at Grace Baptist Church. He oversees ministries that touch the lives of churchgoers ages 0 to 25. Larry is also the author of Lead the Way God Made You and a monthly columnist on churchvolunteercentral.com. Most importantly, Larry is passionate for the future of the church and is eager to enter his thoughts into the conversation.