Evergreen Christian Community

Mark 8:34-38Matthew 11:28–30Big Idea: As we give God an undivided heart, He infuses our life with His Spirit as we learn to walk in step with Him.1. We balance ON the rock–Jesus–our foundationMatthew 7:24-25 “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” ― Deitrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship2. We balance WITH the Spirit–with all of our lives intertwined with the Spiritual (capital S), yoked in sync with Jesus"I think if you had asked Jesus about His spiritual life, He would have looked at you very confused. My guess is He would have asked, “What do you mean by my spiritual life? All of my life is spiritual.” –Garden City, John Mark Comer3. We balance AMIDST the mysteries of God–where faith lives in tension.“Other paradoxes in the Benedictine spiritual way of life include the creative tensions between community and solitude, words and silence, human labor and divine grace, dying to live, and becoming poor to find true riches. Part of the genius of….spirituality is learning to live a balanced li