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There are three areas that need our continual focus for our individual lives and for our churches to be spiritually healthy. They are an upward or God-focus (Col. 2:9), an inward or personal-growth focus (I Pet. 2:2) and an outward or others-focus (Matt. 22:39). We have recently talked a lot about our upward God-focus. Today let’s talk about and look at the other two together. Growing and serving are essential ingredients if you desire to be spiritually healthy. What makes us think we are ...
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight” (Isa. 5:20-21).
What does it mean? The prophet might as well have written to us who are alive today as this is exactly what we see all around us. The...