Category: Richard Dahlstrom

Richard Dahlstrom

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn’t tell us to go to church. He didn’t tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told us to get out and actually do the stuff he’d already been doing, painting the hope of God’s reign on the canvas of God’s world. He told us we’re artists.

Richard Dahlstrom

But what we did yesterday isn’t ever really the point or the question.The question is, are you open, by virtue of your relationship with this new Lover of yours, to being challenged in new ways, invited in new ways, to participate in what God is doing? The overwhelming testimony of the Bible is that too many finish growing long before they have finished living, and so they complete their days sitting on their assets. That’s hardly the abundant life that Jesus came to give.