All of us are given the same amount of time each day. How do we spend it? Sitting at the feet of Jesus is the source of life for all Christians. To achieve anything in this world we need to practice. The Bible is the Christian’s core fitness regime. If you skip practice it will show. If we are not in God’s Word, we are playing church. We are not being shaped and we will not have the fullness Jesus promises. We need to get back to the source.

God wants two things for us: that we know the heart of God in Christ and to know our heart in the light of Christ. We are to minister out of God’s love for people, therefore we need to know Him deeper.

We put God in a box when we think He turns a blind eye to sin in our life, or when we worship the doings rather than the Do-er, or when we try to repeat what He did in the past, in our own strength. Putting God in a box is trying to control Him. Sometimes He just quietly leaves and sometimes He reacts dramatically...

We should love the church because Christ, its head, loves the church. We cannot approach church or God as consumers. Meaningful local church involvement is not an optional spiritual discipline, but the essential context in which believers are to grow in Christ. Therefore, God wants His church to be a learning church, a caring church, a worshipping church and an evangelising church.

Living out whole Christianity means embodying the greatest commandment. There are three postures that describe what this looks like: standing firm - using all our mind; kneeling - using all our heart and soul; and running - using all our strength. We need to stand in truth, wisdom, our thought life and choices. This is foundational. We also need to kneel before God in surrender and intimacy. Finally, we need to serve our neighbours, engaging our tithe, time and talents to reach the unloved, unreached and unknown.