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Space Between the Logs
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Attention!  Your input needed!   The 6th week of this teaching series is called Straight Answers.  In this teaching (CF Community Center - March 9, Grundy campus - March 16, CF Sanctuary - March 30),  Dave Bartlett, in partnership with the teaching team, will be answering questions raised by people during the series. 

These questions can relate to any of the topics of the series.  If you have a question that you would like OHC to consider answering during this teaching, please e-mail it to Dave at dbartlett@orchardhillchurch.org!

The following quote is the perfect explanation for both this teaching series -- Space Between the Logs -- and for the resources and additional helps contained on this page.

"There is a growing epidemic occurring in many Christian’s lives. I call it ‘spiritual emaciation.’ Our bodies make us look well-nourished but beneath the skin, our hearts can feel dwarfed; malnourished and underdeveloped.

We mistakenly assume that because we are Christians, we know how to feed ourselves. When we’re told to ‘read the Bible,’ we assume we know how. When we’re told to pray, we assume we know how to tell God the secrets and longings of our hearts. When Jesus tells us to ‘Come to me,’ we think we know how to make step-by-step movements toward Him.

The fact is, we assume way too much. Even the disciples had to back up and ask Jesus to teach them specific things that evidently he assumed they had ‘gotten’ in their journey toward spiritual maturity. We need to back up and make sure we have some of the basics down in our lives before we think we are progressing further than we actually are." (Stephen Smith, The Potter’s Inn Journal)

Spiritual growth is the work of the Spirit. At the same time, God has designed us to seek after Him. This site is filled with ways we can do just that. Find one that works for you ... and engage it over time. And remember, Jesus defines eternal life in John 17:3 - "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." The sole purpose of any of these practices is to help us live more deeply into the eternal kind of life Jesus describes; a life of knowing and loving the One true God.

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