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August 25, 2005

Where is God these days?

One of the things I always appreciated about the Vineyard movement was their emphasis on "blessing what the Father is doing"; in other words, they were always encouraging people to follow the example of Jesus:
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does." (John 5:19)
This simple approach was devastatingly effective in keeping man-made agendas at bay. To stop and ask each other, "What is God doing, right now, among us? What is He saying to us?", meant that as a community, we were always having to submit ourselves to the Lordship of the Holy Spirit (see the Nicene Creed for a historical understanding of the Lordship of the Holy Spirit in the early church).

I find myself noticing, from time to time, that I don't hear the question "what is God saying/doing?" very much anymore. I hear a lot of (good and necessary) discussion on ecclesiology and missiology (and I'm often knee-deep-in-sheep when it comes to those discussions myself), but every now and then, I want to pull us all back to the simple question, "what is the Father doing, that we as His children, followers, disciples, and servants should be paying attention to"?

Any thoughts?

posted by Robbymac at 10:30 PM

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