{"id":1504,"date":"2018-04-19T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2018-04-22T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:58:44","slug":"matters-of-the-heart-salvation-army-northern-cluster-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Matters of the Heart&ndash;Salvation Army Northern Cluster&ndash;April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image result\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uFvUllf_4Pg\/hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Great to catch up with Cluster members today at Elizabeth Town.&nbsp; We are working through Dallas Willard\u2019s Restoration of the Heart.&nbsp; Some notes and resources from today are attached.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reflection on the parable of the Rich Fool<\/p>\n<p>The Greek text makes clear the four mistakes the subject of this parable makes.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On receiving the blessings of a bumper crop, he neither gives thanks to God nor reflects on how to share his blessing with others but holds a dialogue only with himself as if his wealth has isolated him.<\/li>\n<li>His self talk is all I, me, mine\u2026.&nbsp; He comes up with a philosophy to trust his possessions rather than God, so he plans to store them.<\/li>\n<li>His conclusion is that lots of good things <em>euphoreo<\/em> will give him a deep satisfaction <em>euphraneo<\/em>.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>He badly miscalculates \u2013 as he is not in charge of his own life it is on loan.&nbsp; God can call in the loan at any point.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/q71kefsg2kwgamo\/The%20Rich%20Fool%20annotated%20text.doc?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">Notes on the Greek text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/x7w35aq5m4ct5pa\/Questions%20for%20Reflection%20on%20Spiritual%20Formation%20%28FOM%29.doc?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">Questions for spiritual formation reflection<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/dj69bz37qlfg5d2\/Spiritual%20Formation%20in%206%20Keys.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">Spiritual formation in 6 Keys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to catch up with Cluster members today at Elizabeth Town.&nbsp; We are working through Dallas Willard\u2019s Restoration of the Heart.&nbsp; Some notes and resources from today are attached.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[116,157,158,27],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-teaching","category-lf","tag-cluster","tag-luke-12","tag-rich-fool","tag-salvation-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnmark.net.au\/jm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}