2012-08-29T16:56:44-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/different/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/how-to-live-in-a-stew-without-having-the-beef-6688 2012-08-29T16:56:44-05:00 Why do we let there be walls where there should be bridges? Now, you can be what God delights in - a bring-us-together person. Are you one of those? Emphasize what unites us as followers of Christ, not what divides us. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/you-re-not-all-there-6428 2011-08-31T10:53:39-05:00 if you will open up to the rest of the family, you're going to be really rich! Let different Christians challenge you, and balance you, complete you. There is no family member in God's family that you don't need and who doesn't need you, because we're just not all there. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/so-many-flavors-6278 2011-03-11T16:33:30-05:00 You're on God's side when you're against whatever divides His body. It's not all vanilla. Its lots of flavors. It's all ice cream; but it's lots of flavors, and that's what counts. We're all the church. So, celebrate the variety in God's family. There are so many flavors. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1508 2010-08-09T16:33:10-05:00 Perhaps the biggest challenge to the western church today is the shift in the last 10+ years to a post-Christian context. And people are just not that much into us any more. Alan Hirsch is one of the key leaders helping us to understand this changing context and change our ministry approaches. http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/foreign-to-familiar.php 2010-08-07T15:53:32-05:00 Weather shapes our different national cultures more than we realise. A cross-cultural worker with wide experience, Lanier explains the vital differences between hot- and cold-climate cultures. This is not just of passing interest, because it dramatically affects how we communicate the gospel within different cultures. In a cold-climate culture, social life is lived primarily within the home. In a hot-climate culture, community life and relationships are conducted outside. Hot-climate cultures are far more relational, much less task-oriented. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%208:22-24&version=NIV 2009-10-01T17:36:50-05:00 In this passage God says that he will deal differently with His people and the Egyptians. He then sends swarms of flies everywhere except on the Israelites. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012:4&version=NIV 2009-08-18T15:53:48-05:00 We are each given different gifts. All are given to us from God and no gift is worth more or less in terms of the body of Christ.