{"id":3049,"date":"2008-04-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/04\/nwa08-hugh-palmer-on-treasuring-christ-and-the-call-to-service\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T17:12:41","slug":"nwa08-hugh-palmer-on-treasuring-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/04\/nwa08-hugh-palmer-on-treasuring-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"NWA08 – Hugh Palmer on Treasuring Christ and the Call to Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Earlier today I interviewed Hugh Palmer<\/a>. Tonight, in typical wry self-depreciating humor, he began his talk by saying that we would be moving from the American passion<\/em><\/strong> we saw demonstrated last night, to the British understatement<\/em><\/strong> we could expect to experience now.\n

\"Hugh<\/a>He began by telling us that we don\u2019t tell people the gospel for one of two reasons\u2014either because we don\u2019t believe the gospel or because we don\u2019t love them. Hugh says he still struggles with evangelism and is looking for a third option, but can\u2019t find one. We saw in Romans 8 \u201cfrom no condemnation to no separation.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hugh pointed us to the heart that Paul had for his countrymen. Too often we don\u2019t really share Paul\u2019s attitude\u2014which was \u201ccurse me, not them.\u201d It\u2019s like Moses when the people had worshipped the golden calf. Neither Moses nor Paul can be cursed for others or blotted out of the book. Only the innocent Christ was cut off for others\u2019 sins. There is a curse for those who turn their backs on God. It is Christ-like to long for our friends to know what we have known. If we don\u2019t recognize ourselves in this attitude, does it mean we don\u2019t love or we don\u2019t believe the gospel? We need to pray that God will give us the evangelist\u2019s heart\u2014actually the Christian\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

God has given over people to disobedience so he can have mercy on them. We are urged by Paul to present our bodies to God as an act of worship. It is striking that he uses ritualistic cultic language, but then he ignores it all. We have an empty life full of guilt without God, which Jesus fills. We don\u2019t deserve God\u2019s love, but because of his mercy he loves us. Gripped by the mercy of God, we are then to offer our bodies. He doesn\u2019t ask us to give just our hearts to the Lord, but our bodies. Don\u2019t try and keep God in the so-called \u201cspiritual\u201d part of you. It\u2019s carried around in our bodies. All the rest comes with it.<\/p>\n

In the temple, sacrifices would be living, but end up dead. Here it\u2019s the other way around\u2014we are to offer sacrifices as those who have been brought to life. We worship by driving for Christ, by resting for Christ, by working in our workplaces for Christ, etc.<\/p>\n

Evangelists are awkward people once things are going well. Suddenly they want to plant a new church! They throw all the pieces up in the air and leave the pastor to put them back together. But we are all to have the heart of an evangelist.<\/p>\n

We are to be transformed. It is our minds that have to radically change. Beware of comfortable Christianity! Hugh said he was respectably godless before his conversion. But he discovered that his existence was shriveled. In the Christian body we have different parts with different functions. We are committed, we belong, we are serving. When people say they don\u2019t feel they belong, it\u2019s often because they\u2019re not serving. It is about putting people before ourselves as more important than we are.<\/p>\n

Be willing to associate with people of low position. Relate to people who are different to you. There are 55 different nationalities represented at All Souls Church. May the gospel define us\u2014it\u2019s more important than Anglican versus Free Church, old versus young, excited versus understated. Be careful about being too settled or the job is done now. Whether we move or not, we should have a godly restlessness.<\/p>\n

We need the Spirit to take his word and re-tune our thinking to be more like him as we read our Bibles. Only then can we test and approve what God\u2019s will is. It is only then that life will feel like a round peg in a round hole. What attracted Hugh to Christ was not the preachers, but a Christian friend who wasn\u2019t like everybody else. He was like nobody else Hugh had met before. May we be among those who won\u2019t settle for anything less than a radical change. In view of God\u2019s mercy, let\u2019s offer him our bodies. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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