Tag: Grace Baptist Partnership
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Embracing the Butterfly Effect Pt.3 – Giving
The ‘butterfly effect’, the theory that small individual actions can operate within a wider ecosystem to affect huge change, is a wonderful metaphor for so many of our activities as Christians. When boiled down to their bare minimum, so much of what Christians do personally, and what the church does corporately, can seem hopelessly small…
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Embracing the Butterfly Effect Pt2. – Evangelism
Believing that big things can follow small actions offered in faith is one of the keys to understanding how God works in the world, and why what we do in our personal lives matters. In a world of well publicised biographies, grand gestures, and self-promotion, it is vital to understand that ministering in obscurity is…
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Embracing the Butterfly Effect Pt.1: Prayer
It is amazing how language which begins life in the laboratory, or in the halls of the academy, can quickly filter down into everyday use – often stripped of its more technical dimensions. We have become accustomed to referencing ‘critical mass’ to express how things inevitably come to a head in our lives, and the…
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