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I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.

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The Call of Malachi to the 21st Century Church

Posted by Don Paine

The book of Malachi is the last book of the old testament.  I completed a study and series of sermons from the 6 chapters a few months ago.  I believe it is a call to the 21st Century Church to a New kind of Honesty, A New Dimension of Humility and a New Frame for Holiness:

Honesty is about authenticity with respectfulness, not about brutality or judgment of parts.
Humility is about audacity with respectfulness, not about quiet, non-assertive or compliant parts.
Holiness is about the abandonment of self-serving agendas and self-promoting conditions not about sinless behavior.

These three qualities of the divine in us need courage and calmness to be nurtured and drawn out.

This shift results in redefining justice, redefining righteousness, redefining redemption and redirecting community.

It is about helping the church inside to come out side.

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