Jim Wilder - Attaching to Jesus as a way to naturally love our enemies

04/24/20 • 56 min

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Jim Wilder is our friend and mentor and one of the people we've learned a tremendous amount from over the years. This book is life altering. I encourage you to pick it up today.
Jim and John sharing in conversation about his new book. We had a lot of fun talking, sharing and discussing the ideas.

Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms

Jim's hope and dreams for the book
Why loving our enemies is the litmus test for our apprenticeship to Jesus
What is enemy mode?
What does it mean to have God speak to us? And, what it doesn't mean.

The book proposes that

1) Salvation is about attachment and uses the human attachment system to grow a new identity

2) We can experience mutual mind with God

3) Mutual mind without attachment will not change character

This conversation will also be released on our YouTube channel.
I'm hoping someone would want to list the topics and time stamps we discuss them on Youtube. If you are interested please let me know.
He is the neurotheologian of Life Model Works.
Dr. Jim Wilder (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, and M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary) has been training leaders and counselors for over 27 years on five continents. He is the author of multiple books with a strong focus on maturing and relationship skills for leaders. His coauthored book Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You has sold over 100,000 copies and is printed in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training called THRIVE. He is the founder and chief neurotheologian of Life Model Work, a nonprofit working at the intersection of brain science and theology that is building contagiously healthy Christian communities through equipping existing networks with the skills to thrive. Dr. Wilder has extensive counseling experience and has served as a guest lecturer at Fuller Seminary, Biola, Talbot Seminary, Point Loma University, Montreat College, Tyndale Seminary and elsewhere.
BIBLE APP with writing from Jim Wilder
I'm reading the @YouVersion plan '12 Ways God Loves You: Practices That Form Strong Attachments To God And God’s People'. Check it out here:
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Jim introduces Dallas from the conference (story told in the book)
https://lifemodelworks.org/renovated/...
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Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms

Jim's hope and dreams for the book
Why loving our enemies is the litmus test for our apprenticeship to Jesus
What is enemy mode?
What does it mean to have God speak to us? And, what it doesn't mean.

The book proposes that

1) Salvation is about attachment and uses the human attachment system to grow a new identity

2) We can experience mutual mind with God

3) Mutual mind without attachment will not change character

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Let It Be : Done Unto Me [Breath Prayer]

008 Breath prayer :: Let It Be : Done Unto Me
To complement this week's sermon theme "Challenged", we will use the phrase, “Let it be done unto me!” as our breath prayer. We will breathe IN, “Let it be” and breathe OUT, “Done unot to me”. Our hope is to see our heartbeats pulsate with Mary’s surrender as we engage in this week’s breath prayer.

Mary was an human like you and me living an ordinary and yet well-ordered life. However, one day she was greatly challenged and her heart was gravely troubed with Gabriel’s visit. Gabriel brought a ‘good’ news that would change her well-ordered life into complete disorder. She knew that her well-ordered life would be called into a complete disorder if she let His order land on her heart. And yet, she welcomed that disorder.

How did Mary’s heart begin beating with a new rhythm?: the rhythm of letting go of her order and letting in of disorder; empyting order and welcoming disorder. Did she somehow know that God would not end with disorder but bring reorder?
This seems like a perennial truth: order-disorder-reorder.

We do not know how Mary did? One thing we know is that we would not let go of our well-ordered life unless we have to; we would not accept God’s invitation for transformation unless disorder sets in. Suffering in the course of our life - mental, physical, emotional and relational suffering - bring us disorder and challenges us to accept the fact that there are things that we can not easily fix, control, change or explain. It seems like we find ourselves or the whole world in disorder and destabilization.
What if we pause and receive this disorder as God’s invitation to follow Him in bringing ‘reorder’ in our life and the world? It seems like the ‘oder’ that once worked nicely was built upon many private and separate selves who constantly in competition. It seems like the ‘reorder’ God desires to bring will be built upon collective body that continually in cooperation. God is inviting us to become a kind of people who let go of our order and welcome this disorder as a necessary suffering to bring reorder into our life.

Jesus said to us, “Come, follow me!”

Let ‘I-Thou’ encounter take place as we closely follow Him today!

Let Jesus’ face reflect back to us who we are! We have Jesus’ DNA in us.

Notice what Jesus said at the end of his life, “Not my will, but yours, be done”

Those who are drawn to use Jesus’ phrase as this week’s breath prayer please feel free to use it as an alternative one. Mary’s phrase in the beginning of her life and Jesus one at the end of his life both share the same spirit of complete surrender and trust in God!

Pause and set your intention to become fully present to God who is with us in this moment.
Breathe IN and say, “Let it be”
Breathe OUT and say, “Done unto me”
Repeat three times
Notice the effect this prayer has on you.

If you want to study this passage more check out biblehub to get some background on the original language.
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Joy Fueled - Catalyzing A Revolution of Joyful Communities [LK10] with Toni Daniels

010 Episode -- Toni Daniels shares the impact of vibrant families of Jesus and the new book she co-authored.

Joy Fueled - Catalyzing A Revolution of Joyful Communities

Toni Daniels - Training Champion

Toni is passionate about seeing relational restoration in every level of society by awakening, inspiring and training emotional, spiritual ninja warriors.

God-given Design: Toni takes risks and spearheads experiments to find and implement the best pathways to fuel Jesus’ revolution of Joy.

TONI DANIELS

Missionary for 18 years Uraguary - Social Entrepreneur / Relational training
Mom of 4 (10-30) / Wife - 26 years
Wrote a book Back To Joy: An Intimate Journey Into Emotional Health and Maturity
Part of LK10 Ministries - https://lk10.com/

The Mission

To start vibrant families of Jesus within reach of every person on the planet.

Our 5 Core Values

In short, Lk10 is characterized by joy-fueled, Jesus-led communities of practice, training spiritual moms and dads to nurture ecosystems of grace. Here’s a closer look at each of these values:

Joy-Fueled

Joy, that feeling you get when you are “glad to be together no matter what” is what fuels and motivates us within LK10 (John 14:10). Instead of living out of shame, guilt, or duty, we take time to connect heart to heart with each other. We also ask God, “how do you feel about being with us?” This question gets at our root motivations and consistently brings relational peace as it reveals God’s deep enjoyment of us fueling us to move into our world full of life and presence.

Are you burned out? Tired of church as usual? Looking for deeper connection with others and with Jesus?

Then you’re in the right place. Lk10 trains people like you to start Jesus-led, joy-fueled communities. We’re re-imagining church as a simple, organic, and participatory family.

Visit us at https://www.presenceandpractice.com/
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