Here is the sermon I preached today: God in the Gaps: Working with Dirty Hands. It's kinda cliché to say that legalistic Christians tend to get Pharisaical. What I didn't realize until I did all the research for this sermon is how close Pharisees were to Protestants: worship is supposed to be 24/7, not just an hour on the Sabbath; priesthood of all believers; etc.
In regard to holiness, some of the questions raised during the sermon were:
How holy do you have to be before God can use you?
What does purity look like when God is using you? (What if holiness, being set aside for God's use, led you to having to do some messy stuff? What if your hands got dirty?)
The Pharisees were so well-intentioned! Too bad they came off sounding like legalistic Christians, but what does that suggest about our legalism?
The plan is to put some lesson plans out here regarding the Alliance doctrine of sanctification. These lesson plans are not intended to replace the fine books the C&MA uses for teaching Christ as Sanctifier. They are lessons used at our Wednesday night contemplative service, and I hope that they may be ancillary resources to help you understand the what it means to become "wholly sanctified."
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- A free range chicken is not in the coop 24/7 and it has to grub for its own food. Similarly, I am between assignments right now, and thinking that being bi-vocational may be the way of the future for me; that would pretty much put me outside of "the coop" and leave me grubbing for food as well. Why bi-vocational? At my last church, I was a high school XC and track coach as well as a pastor, and eventually I got to where I'd introduce myself as a coach instead of as a pastor. Want a great way to kill a conversation? When introduced to a stranger, tell them that you are a pastor. (100% guaranteed to end the conversation 70% of the time.) There are plenty of other reasons to be bi-vocational, but trying to bridge the gap between myself and the people I want to reach is a big one.
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