Neighborhood Church
Note To Self: Godliness
Brian Ross
Locations & Times
Neighborhood Church
5505 W Riggin Ave, Visalia, CA 93291, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
If You Take on the Character of God:
1. You will seek to do what is good and right, even if it feels impractical.
2. You will seek to treat people better than you believe they deserve.
3. You will seek to be somewhat different than other people who come from your ethnic, socio-economic, generational, and cultural background.
1. You will seek to do what is good and right, even if it feels impractical.
2. You will seek to treat people better than you believe they deserve.
3. You will seek to be somewhat different than other people who come from your ethnic, socio-economic, generational, and cultural background.
“If you have a genuine encounter with God, whatever they are, your politics will change.”
-Tim Keller
-Tim Keller
Godliness: choosing to engage mysterious spiritual experiences, so that you can connect with the Good and Beautiful Creator, who is so much more than your circumstances.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Possible Forms of Leaning into “Godliness”:
1. Consider reading (probably listening to) large portions of the Bible.
1. Consider reading (probably listening to) large portions of the Bible.
Too much emphasis on… wordy [faith] feeds our egos and gives us far too much to argue about. That is surely why Jesus emphasized quiet prayer in one’s own ‘inner room’ and warned us not to ‘babble on as the pagans do’…
In silence all our usual patterns assault us. Our patterns of control, addiction, negativity, tension, anger, and fear assert themselves….
“In reality our growth… is accomplished by the release of our current defense postures, by the letting go of fear and our attachment to self-image. Thus, we grow by subtraction much more than by addition. It’s not a matter of more and better information... Once our defenses are out of the way and we are humble… truth is allowed to show itself.
-Richard Rohr
In silence all our usual patterns assault us. Our patterns of control, addiction, negativity, tension, anger, and fear assert themselves….
“In reality our growth… is accomplished by the release of our current defense postures, by the letting go of fear and our attachment to self-image. Thus, we grow by subtraction much more than by addition. It’s not a matter of more and better information... Once our defenses are out of the way and we are humble… truth is allowed to show itself.
-Richard Rohr
“Men of my age flock together and at our meetings the tale commonly is --I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.
But to me, Socrates, these complainers seem to blame that which is not really in fault. The truth is that these regrets are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.”
-Cephalus / Plato's Republic
But to me, Socrates, these complainers seem to blame that which is not really in fault. The truth is that these regrets are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.”
-Cephalus / Plato's Republic
Godliness: choosing to engage mysterious spiritual experiences, so that you can connect with the Good and Beautiful Creator, who is so much more than your circumstances.