"moves and removes" a blog by Kessia Reyne Bennett // a Seventh-day Adventist theology.
my heart has had
a hole inside
and from it drips
my fear and
that fear falls
into my legs
and makes them
weak.
but I worry that
if I should try
to mend my heart
then perhaps
without a valve
to leak it,
the fear would
fill my heart
and sink it.
Now the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to deviously arrest Him, that they might kill Him. For they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there be a riot by the people.”
And while He was reclining in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, there came a woman having an alabaster vase of oil-- pure and expensive nard. Breaking the alabaster vase, she poured out the oil on His head. But some were indignant, saying to each other, “Why has this ointment been wasted? For this ointment could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor.” And they criticized her harshly.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor among you and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but you do not always have me. She did what she could; she poured oil on my body as the preparation for
my
burial. Truly I say to you, wherever the Gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did will be spoken of in memory of her.”
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests in order that he might betray Him. And when they heard this, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. Then he began seeking for an opportune time to betray Him.
[mark14.1-11]
"Your old will dream dreams, and your young will have visions..."
The dreams and visions of table 6.
> We have a dream that the Seventh-day Adventist movement would be a movement of disciples, each member having the opportunity to be discipled, and equipped for the privilege of discipling another.
> It is our dream, our vision that Seventh-day Adventists would grow a stronger worldwide reputation as healers; and that when I tell someone I'm a Seventh-day Adventist Christian there is no need to apologize.
> Our dreams and visions include an Adventist church so filled with love for Jesus that there is no need for evangelism by guilt.
> We have a dream that our church—each of us—would consider our possessions not our own, but as belonging to Jesus and only lent to us, and that we would be willing to give them up in His holy name.
My job is not to be right;
my job is to be in Christ.
. . . . .
We can't argue about the truth of Jesus.
We can argue about the truth of the language we use about Jesus,
but Jesus transcends our explanations of Him.
. . . . .
We don't want to trade our Adventist distinctiveness for generic Christianity;
what we'd very much like to do, however, is to trade a self-centered Adventism for a Christ-centered Adventism.
. . . . .
These are some of the thought-gems from two great days I spent in Atlanta at a gathering for
, a movement to celebrate (and encourage) the supremacy of Jesus. One hundred seventy people gathered together to worship, converse, and re-consecrate themselves to live with Jesus as All, and leaving to be change-agents within the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. It was powerful.
You probably weren't there, which is a shame. But Joshua and I are already registered for
We'd love see to you there.
Jesus. All.
Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.