Ministry in Motion

CS Lewis penned in The Weight of Glory: “ We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” If I were to ask, who believes in grace, who in this group could say no. None of us.   But let’s deepen the question:  

The Apostle Paul vividly remembers his first impression of the Thessalonian Christians to whom he writes. Paul calls these believer: "a quiet and holy people" Quiet. He says they are not obnoxious, not boastful, not demanding. Paul urges the same from us. "...Do all you can to live peaceful life. Take care of your own business..." A quiet and holy people. That describes the church at Thessalonica - may it describe the church today. #MininstryinMotion   #pkes   Facebook   Twitter   Instagram   Home   Office[at]minm.church Want to join our June 3rd 7pm Zoom Study?  Email me for the Zoom link and password...Pastor Keith

“If you know you are Beloved of God, you can live with an enormous amount of success and an enormous amount of failure without losing your identity, because your identity is that you are the Beloved” .     ~H. Nouwen   Bə ˈ ləvəd. One who is beloved is a much adored, cared for and treasured; beloved is to say that with the strongest of devotion you are able to love without any limitations; affection for another person is cherished, an unquestioning sincere assurance that your feelings are the truest of love, constant, unchanging and unconditional. Beloved - a love so sincerely special and genuine — the purest of love. Spend any time in the Christian faith and you’re likely to hear that you are the beloved of God. Maybe we hear it, consciously. We may even repeat it, longing to embrace the fact we are ‘beloved’ = loved unconditionally.   But many of us struggle to truly embrace the definition, unconsciously. Deep down there’s a self-talk,

Intimacy is an essential human need. It’s not spatial but relational. We all know what it’s like to be sitting right next to a person with whom we feel  distant  and we can feel  close  to a person who is four thousand miles away. “If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential” ~HerniNouwen Intimacy with our Creator — that’s essential. Get closer now: > Be quiet > Read > Pray; talk, listen > Give thanks > Marvel at what God has created … #pkes   #MininstryinMotion #MetroLifeChurch Facebook   Twitter   Instagram   Home   Email