Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last.

Opening Prayer
Sunday August 25th, 2024

Hope in the Grove Baptist Church,
Cottage Grove, OR

Dear Lord,
Let us never forget you sent your Son
to fulfill the Law.

Give us this day the grace of Your blessing
That our understanding may pierce the Mystery of Christ,
That we may be led from the shadow of true things
To the reality of the Kingdom itself,
Out of the desert of sin, through salvation,
To a still greater good of holiness
Like branches from the eternal vine
Bringing forth goodness
According to the glorious transformation
Of the resurrection process.

Your inspired Word is the seed, Lord.
Give us ‘Kingdom eyes’, ‘Kingdom ears’,
That we might worship you by living your love,
Signposts for the whole world
Bearing witness to your promise, purpose and will
Making all things new.

Thy Kingdom come
On earth as it is in heaven, Lord.
In the name and spirit of Jesus.
Amen.
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Opening Prayer Sunday August 25th, 2024 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church, Cottage Grove, OR Dear Lord, Let us never forget you sent your Son to fulfill the Law. Give us this day the grace of Your blessing That our understanding may pierce the Mystery of Christ, That we may be led from the shadow of true things To the reality of the Kingdom itself, Out of the desert of sin, through salvation, To a still greater good of holiness Like branches from the eternal vine Bringing forth goodness According to the glorious transformation Of the resurrection process. Your inspired Word is the seed, Lord. Give us ‘Kingdom eyes’, ‘Kingdom ears’, That we might worship you by living your love, Signposts for the whole world Bearing witness to your promise, purpose and will Making all things new. Thy Kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven, Lord. In the name and spirit of Jesus. Amen.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Aug 2024

@AimeTim I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners.

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It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven."
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Copy of tweet here: It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven."

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @millinerd Yup, there's dumbing up as much as dumbing down: wising down as much as wising up. In practice then, Christianity Complete is Jesus Incomplete. Until, that is, the crowning of His supersessive authority, yoked to earth reality, owned by none yet overcoming all, the Church first.Quoted by@millinerd Yup, there's dumbing up as much as dumbing down: wising down as much as wising up. In practice then, Christianity Complete is Jesus Incomplete. Until, that is, the crowning of His supersessive authority, yoked to earth reality, owned by none yet overcoming all, the Church first.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Dan_Bowdoin @brianmclaren @BrianZahnd “[I]t’s better to think about the aim of spiritual and religious efforts this way: as developing another - an extra - dimension of consciousness, & “seeing” a reality coexisting along with, but above & beyond ... our everyday world.” ~ Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein, God 4.0.Quoted by@Dan_Bowdoin @brianmclaren @BrianZahnd “[I]t’s better to think about the aim of spiritual and religious efforts this way: as developing another - an extra - dimension of consciousness, & “seeing” a reality coexisting along with, but above & beyond ... our everyday world.” ~ Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein, God 4.0.