Sublime

Actions that live out God’s story are formative practices: they change who we are deep inside and help us become whole.

Contemplation is distinctive because it shows us that we are not only in a subject-object relationship with God—parent to child, king to servant—but we are also in the process of reuniting our being with the divine reality. We are light. The “flowing light of the God-head” circulates from Love to each of us and through us to one another.15 As Jesus

If a reflective life is meant to be more than just affirming our existing beliefs, then Torah provides the opportunity to engage with life more fully.

How can we help Majority World churches declare and demonstrate the good news of God’s kingdom by helping poor people glorify God through sustaining work?

The key to transformation is self-awareness. A transformational leader helps participants bring attention to hidden assumptions, which are often part of our default stories or identities, such as the lost child or hard-hearted person. We do this through the safe witnessing of habitual thinking and judgments.

temptations are, as well as our gifts—not that we might better “know ourselves,” or in modern parlance, “feel good about ourselves,” but in order that we might become instruments of divine grace for other people, and eventually return to God.