Why do we think we should be any better off than Paul or any cooler than the Apostles? God isn’t concerned about making churches cool…He wants them to be clay pots containing the Gospel. Everything else it would seem; is about us…and superfluous. Inside or out, it must be the same. The Gospel within and the Gospel without!
If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized, we’re not sure what to do, we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives. 2 Corinthians 4: 7-11 The Message
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