Knowledge & Power

a Jesus thought...
Woe to you! For you pay tithe but have neglected the weightier matter of the law: justice and mercy and faith. (Matthew 23:23)

a Godly thought...
Like Jonah, we are glad to be one of his people, willing to do his work, able to recite our creeds, happy to sing his praises, but too often reluctant to allow him to minister outside of the boundaries of our limited understanding and our inherited traditions. (p139 Yuill)

a leading thought...
Like an air traffic controller, we need to learn to land one plane at a time - to do fewer things with excellence rather than many with mediocrity. (p283 Covey)

a Dave thought...
Yesterday I quoted for my Jesus thought the verse from Matthew 22 when Jesus says, "You are in error for you do not know the scriptures or the power of God." I believe this a powerful warning to us all as one without the other is dangerous. I have been in situations where people ministering are so content to reveal the power of God that they fail to open the scriptures and faith becomes all about experience and they lack the biblical foundation to go alongside it. On the other hand I have seen and at times and have operated myself with great knowledge of scripture but have not welcomed the power of God. So we become intellectual Christians with little experience.
If you are unsure where your bias is ask yourself if you get more excited in the worship or the preach? If you love the worship time you maybe a power player, if you can't wait for it to finish so you can hear the word you are probably in the knowledge camp. Both are needed, so let the theologians and the Pentecostals join together and lets bring the best out of each other with knowledge and power.

Just a thought.