The Power of Invitation

Invitation to contribute can demonstrate interest.
Invitation to a party can demonstrate care.
Invitation to carry responsibility can demonstrate trust.

Joining a party without Invitation is called Gatecrashing.
Helping a person without Invitation is called Meddling.
Entering a house without Invitation is called Intrusion.

1. When does a Prophet need an Invitation to speak?
2. When does a Missionary need an Invitation to go?
3. Who does a Leader expect an Invitation from?

Demons and Drama Queens

Being vulnerable. Exercising authority. Helping those in need.

They could be seen as attributes of a Christ-follower.
They could also be seen as roles under Steven B Karpman’s triangle theory.

Is there a place for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis in Christianity? Does it provide us with useful tools or is it an industry that meddles with our souls?

Under the marketplace rules of supply & demand, does a skew towards education, therapy and charity, breed a generation of clever, ill-minded beggars?

Guilty Of Hubbub

At Vanity Fair

Mrs. Jesus ?

At the wedding of Cana, Mary (Jesus’ mother) tells the servants, ‘do whatever he tells you’. This implies that Mary may have been ‘mother of the groom’ and that indeed the wedding at Cana was Jesus’ wedding to Mary Magdalene.

If Jesus’ was married does it impact on his deity?

[Thanks Nemo]

Pins In A World Map ?

Some missionaries are coming to my town from overseas.
I doubt they will introduce themselves as missionaries.

So, other than them being ‘the polite bunch with the sketchy dialect’, how will we recognise them as missionaries?