Becoming honest
Brandt Gillespie
(Audio: English)
SUMMARY: The speaker believes that God is at work in a unique way in their current setting and emphasizes the importance of humility in serving God. They focus on the combination of grace and truth in Jesus and how it can be difficult to balance the two in our lives. The speaker then looks at Psalm 32 and the story of David, emphasizing the importance of honesty and transparency in our relationship with God. They ask the audience to reflect on why they should commit to honesty, how honesty is like peeling back layers, and how we learn the habit of hiddenness. The speaker notes that hiddenness is often learned behavior and that it takes conscious effort to overcome.
The speaker talks about the struggle between the impulses within us and the moral standards that society expects us to follow. He believes that God is calling us to a place of honesty and vulnerability within a community that is full of grace and truth. In order for this to happen, we need to be willing to unveil our souls and be open to feedback from others. The speaker encourages us to ask God for revelation on what He wants to reveal to us and to take the initiative to speak to someone about something we've been afraid to unveil. The goal is to become a community of transparency, openness, and humility, where we can receive each other's brokenness with grace and turn that into a healing process.
The speaker talks about the struggle between the impulses within us and the moral standards that society expects us to follow. He believes that God is calling us to a place of honesty and vulnerability within a community that is full of grace and truth. In order for this to happen, we need to be willing to unveil our souls and be open to feedback from others. The speaker encourages us to ask God for revelation on what He wants to reveal to us and to take the initiative to speak to someone about something we've been afraid to unveil. The goal is to become a community of transparency, openness, and humility, where we can receive each other's brokenness with grace and turn that into a healing process.
You know I really think that God is at work in a rather unique way here in this setting. And I believe that it pleases him that the primary gifted leader that this is built around is Roberto Miranda, and I mean that based on the sense that he’s a senior pastor of this assembly of ministries and of ministers and of congregants and of outreaches, and we were talking, not this last time, but the time before, and as we were sharing and we’re talking there was this freedom in Roberto’s spirit that I was able to just hear and receive and really lean into and it was the sense that it’s all God’s, this is all God’s, that there’s no presupposition about how God is going to do whatever it is that he is going to do.
You know, I would really invite all of us to just be able to enter into the gift that there truly is and that truly brings because it’s a gift for you. It’s a gift for everyone of us. But as we come and as we gather, as we offer our praise that we never permit ourselves the trap of feeling as though somehow some portion of expression, of ministry or function, is ours for the possession and ours for the territorial taking. Believe there’s territories to be taken but they’re not taken that way, but with the humility of spirit that comes and says ‘we are here as servants’.
You know, I would really invite all of us to just be able to enter into the gift that there truly is and that truly brings because it’s a gift for you. It’s a gift for everyone of us. But as we come and as we gather, as we offer our praise that we never permit ourselves the trap of feeling as though somehow some portion of expression, of ministry or function, is ours for the possession and ours for the territorial taking. Believe there’s territories to be taken but they’re not taken that way, but with the humility of spirit that comes and says ‘we are here as servants’.
