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4/8/2009
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By Bob Gladstone
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Unrestrained credit and insecure markets have shaken our culture. America is paying the price financially and emotionally for overextending itself to achieve instant gratification. This lust even characterizes much of the Church - not only financially, but spiritually. Too often we toil in life and ministry to achieve more without the corresponding spiritual resources. Put another way: when our spiritual ambition outweighs the reality of our spiritual lives, it's like living on bad credit. Eventually we will have to pay the piper. And as we've seen recently in the charismatic world, it's not pretty. Spiritual burnout leads to sin that hurts people and dishonors Jesus.
God calls us first to Himself. The core of life consists of secret fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the gritty spiritual character that grows out of that fellowship. That is the spiritual bank account from which we invest in our work. Listen to this story...
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