This weekend at Grace, we kicked off a new series about the "spiritual exercises" (or "disciplines" of disciples of Jesus). We're calling the series Get Ripped! We're taking six weeks to help people learn the exercises to get "spiritually fit."
Our first exercise was "Humility" (primarily from 1 Peter 5:5-8). I challenged people with "humility exercises" this week:
- Let someone else lead
- Learn from negative feedback
- Eliminate your sense of entitlement
- Get a hearing aid
- Be ok with not being noticed
- Be ok with being noticed
- Ask for help
- Apologize first
- Pray out loud
- Serve in Secret
- Don't "one up" people's stories
- Hear the Bible like your life depends on it
- Pray like your life depends on it
- Believe God like your life depends on it
- Apologize, Admin, Admire (C.S. Lewis)
One person sent me this quote by C. H. Spurgeon.
- "There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself."
Another person was watching via Live Stream:
- "Because I know you
are a cat lover, I thought you would enjoy this photo of my cat watching
today's message. She could use a dose of humility so I'm glad she's tuning
in!"
- "Love the messege. Look
at the photo. Something happened and you were split in half."
Here were the two homework assignments I gave:
- Read 2 Chronicles 33-35 & compare:
- How Manasseh humbled himself (the dad)
- How Josiah humbled himself (the son)
- Study what God loves, hates, & delights in.
- What God loves or the Lord loves
- What God hates or the Lord hates
Let's start working out to avoid a "spiritual flab-alanche."
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