The Other Side

The Miraculous Catch

almost always interpreted as church growth

Banging your head

attention captured by Simon and the fishermen.

They’ve been working all night, with no reward.

Have you ever felt like that?

The Dead End

Anti-Vax, racism, the argument you can never win because the rules keep changing

Big dead end looming

The Other Side

Can be hard to see. What does it even look like?

Still in the same boat, but not being dragged down by the circumstances.

You’ll know it when you see it

Fruit of the Spirit,

Galatians 5:22–23 NIV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Faith, Hope & Love

1 Corinthians 13:12–13 NIV

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Colbert - Death is not the end

Let’s be a 1 Corinthians church

I'm a Christian and a Catholic, … and death is not defeat. Sadness is like a little bit of an emotional death, but not a defeat. If you can find a way to laugh about it, because that laughter keeps you from having fear of it. And [laughter] is the thing that keeps you from turning to evil devices to save you from the sadness.

As Robert Hayden said, we must not be frightened or controlled into accepting evil as our deliverance from evil. We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity, though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us.

You must understand and see this in the light of eternity and find some way to love and laugh with each other. - Stephen Colbert