Monday, November 15, 2004

brokenness

Once a year our staff team goes out of town for a time of encouragement and renewal. This year Neal Gooch, the director of the Campus Outreach Johannesburg ministry, came with his wife Jen and shared about stirring up a fresh pot of the gospel.

What we learned was that the more we treasure Jesus, the more we’ll be broken over our sin. If you asked the staff as a whole, brokenness probably summarizes better than any other word what we are experiencing currently. I would still say that it’s a fragile brokenness. We are on the verge and feel the pull each day to run back and try and be strong on our own again. But the calling is clear – be jars of clay for him so that the treasure is what’s important.

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