Comments on: Bible Study Blog for Sunday, July 24, 2011 http://baysidewoodland.com/pastors-blog/bible-study-blog-for-saturday-july-24-2010/ a Bayside church in Woodland, CA Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bob http://baysidewoodland.com/pastors-blog/bible-study-blog-for-saturday-july-24-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Bob Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:16:44 +0000 http://baysidewoodland.com/?p=1485#comment-409 The changed life, indeed. If we're (the "regal we" for BW) going to reach the whole community with the Gospel we're going to need to have that evidence at work in us. The burden isn't ours (except to pray for it diligently,) but is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it is an urgent matter of prayer for us at BW because, as I've heard in more than one sermon recently, "we can't export what we don't own," We aren't going to be able to explain God in terms that will satisfy the empiricist any better than the best minds these days can satisfactorily explain the cosmos except they plug in unknown factors (e.g. "dark matter" and "dark energy") to complete the arguments why galaxies and the rest of the universe don't behave according to the mathematical models generally accepted by the scientific community. The Christian explains the changed life by citing the Holy Spirit, which stands as a satisfactory explanation without the need to cite some "dark" universal force. There is nothing dark about the Holy Spirit which by definition is life and light. The changed life, indeed. If we’re (the “regal we” for BW) going to reach the whole community with the Gospel we’re going to need to have that evidence at work in us. The burden isn’t ours (except to pray for it diligently,) but is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it is an urgent matter of prayer for us at BW because, as I’ve heard in more than one sermon recently, “we can’t export what we don’t own,”

We aren’t going to be able to explain God in terms that will satisfy the empiricist any better than the best minds these days can satisfactorily explain the cosmos except they plug in unknown factors (e.g. “dark matter” and “dark energy”) to complete the arguments why galaxies and the rest of the universe don’t behave according to the mathematical models generally accepted by the scientific community.

The Christian explains the changed life by citing the Holy Spirit, which stands as a satisfactory explanation without the need to cite some “dark” universal force. There is nothing dark about the Holy Spirit which by definition is life and light.

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