Experiencing a mother’s love is a sharing in the Father’s unconditional, unwavering love for his own children. When we suffer deeply as our children experience pain or are roaming from the path of righteousness, we are sharing in the Father’s heart for his children.
You cannot truly love your fellow believers if you are completely independent from them. How can you comfort someone if they are too ashamed to share their needs? How can someone show you generous hospitality if you insist on paying them back for each cup of coffee?
A parent’s identity is not to be a savior but rather to be utilized as a tool in the Savior’s hand to help our children along the way. We can lovingly provide a good foundation for the work that God alone is powerful enough to complete. This is good news indeed for we, as imperfect parents, are not equipped to be a spiritual heart transplant specialist. Only God alone is capable in providing a Savior for mankind through his son, Jesus Christ.
It’s incredible how time flies. It doesn’t feel like that many years ago that we were a small group of people with a calling and a dream to plant a church in Copenhagen. And now, 25 years later, we stand here and can look back on a fantastic and wild journey—with plenty of hard work, many ups and downs—but far overshadowed by God’s incredible blessings and goodness. And people’s transformed lives. It is a good opportunity to pause and look back on everything that has happened. And to share some of the experiences I have had, which may be an encouragement and help to anyone who is about to plant a church or serve in God’s kingdom in some other way.
Christians today need to show the world that the Church has more to say about wonder-hunger than anyone else. We have a theology of the imagination that offers the active and imaginative life for which even the most committed atheists are really longing. The goal of these articles is to whet your taste buds for engaging in this imaginative work. Whether you teach a church full of folks or only your children, capturing your hearers’ imagination with God’s truth is a work worth giving your time and yourself to.
