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multi million dollar industry record labels artists songwriters conferences and even workshops are all devoted to worship usually this worship is in the form of music but scripturally speaking worship is really more about the way we live our lives in relationship to god in romans 12 for example paul tells us that we should offer our bodies to god as a living sacrifice and that this is holy and pleasing to god calling it our true and proper act of worship nothing about singing songs there simply laying our lives down at his feet in adoration and complete surrender in other words when we give up our lives for christ this is what worship looks like just the same way that jesus gave himself up for us as paul reminds us in ephesians 5 25 we should also give up our lives for him and for one another see jesus showed us what worship really looks like when he stepped down from the throne and humbled himself and became a servant to us he was demonstrating to the entire universe what worship really is so on that basis and by following his astounding example we should also worship him by giving up our lives as living sacrifices this is what honors god this is what gives him joy when we understand that his love for us compelled him to kneel down and serve us and yes to worship us with an absolute adoration that drove him to the cross and exploded from the grave in victory how else can we respond how can you not love a god who gave himself up for you how can you not serve a god who first served you how can you not worship a god who would lay everything down and worship you until it killed him there is no one like our god let us worship kg note special thanks to jordan hathcock for inspiring this blog post posted by keith giles at 7 27 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels amazing love gave himself up for us god who worships us jesus monday november 06 2017 help america is caught in a feedback loop another day another mass shooting in america once more a white man with an assault rifle opens fire on innocent people most people say there s nothing we can do others insist that only our thoughts and prayers matter now many christians believe that the second amendment overrules the sermon on the mount so the next time a killer with a semi automatic rifle enters a church he ll be blown to smithereens by all the jesus loving christians who keep a sidearm cocked and loaded in the shoulder holster under their sunday best halleluiah just think if the earliest christians in the first century had only adopted this brilliant preemptive strategy killers like saul of tarsus would have been slaughtered where they stood not only would that have prevented the death our dear brother stephen it would also have prevented us from having to carry around such a thick new testament text since half of it would never have been written but maybe there s another way i know it sounds crazy but hear me out for a minute there are about 175 million christians here in the united states so if even half of us decided to love our neighbors and bless those who curse us and do good to those who hate us maybe we could use this preemptive strategy to love people i know it sounds kinda crazy to follow that jesus guy he was so first century ya know but i once heard someone say that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result since almost no one has tried putting these jesus ideas into practice lately what do we have to lose kg posted by keith giles at 10 50 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christian non violence following jesus preemptive love proactive agape monday october 30 2017 big blog news we re moving after more than 10 years blogging here on subversive1 and the blogger platform i ve decided to move my blog over to patheos here s what that means first this blog will continue to remain online if you re subscribed here then this is still the place to come for my personal posts about my life family and house church related news second i will keep all of my old blog articles and posts here on this blog so don t worry that any of this will one day disappear it won t third all of my newer blog articles will appear on patheos in a few weeks i will post a link to that new blog as soon as it s live note you must subscribe to the patheos feed if you want to receive my new blog posts once everything moves over there don t worry i will post a link to help you do that as soon as it s all ready to go but if you don t subscribe and it s free then you will not receive my new blog articles and posts here s the scoop i was invited to join the patheos blog platform about 2 weeks ago by benjamin corey and chuck mcknight typically the people at patheos prefer to move the entire blog over to their platform however since i have 10 years worth of posts and since blogger and patheos don t sync so well together from a technological standpoint we arrived at a compromise solution which is i will move about 50 hand picked articles from this blog and agree to post all new content on the patheos blog moving forward so in short this is a soft transition what the heck is patheos glad you asked it s a very large blogging platform for a variety of writers to share their ideas and thoughts there are various channels on the platform some are christian some are not some are religious some are not why move to patheos another great question the move to patheos allows me to reach more people because they have a much larger subscription base and they drive much more traffic than i ever could all by my lonesome do they pay you to blog yes they do but that s not why i m moving over honestly i would make this move even if they didn t pay anything at all should i follow you here and at patheos yes here s why the quality and frequency of my posts at patheos will increase significantly i m contractually bound to post a minimum number of articles to patheos every single week plus this shift to a new potential audience has helped me to reevaluate my approach but that is a very good thing trust me see patheos is closer to slate or huffington post so every article i write will have to measure up to a higher journalistic standard than anything i held myself to here on my own blog does that make sense plus if you continue to follow this blog i mean the one you re reading right now you ll get more personal introspective and intimate posts that wouldn t be appropriate for patheos in other words you ll be getting the best of both worlds if you subscribe to this blog here and also to the patheos blog which should launch in a few days any other questions i ll be happy to answer them if i can please just post them below also i wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been faithfully reading following and sharing my posts here on subversive1 all this time you re still the reason i do this i still need your support your feedback and your encouragement this is just the next logical step for me as a writer and i hope you ll come with me blessings keith note my next book jesus unbound is nearly finished stay tuned for more info on that posted by keith giles at 4 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 23 2017 god does not have a penis several years ago i was writing a column for relevant magazine called subversive which featured interviews from various voices in the emerging church movement one of those voices was spencer burke he not only helped to launch an emerging church here in orange county but he also started an online magazine called theooze com and also wrote a great book called making sense of church that s why one afternoon about twelve years ago i was sitting across the table from him in newport beach california interviewing him for relevant but that s when he said something that made me second guess the entire interview he said just imagine if the jewish culture had been matriarchal instead of patriarchal god would have been mother and jesus could have been a woman honestly i didn t know what to say to any of that i was just so far outside my comfort zone at the time spencer is seriously one of the few people i have ever met that i would sincerely call a genius he has an astounding gift to predict where the culture is headed and he has an insight about human nature that is uncanny still i wasn t sure what to do with that statement on the one hand i didn t want to edit out that quote because i knew spencer would notice that i had left it off the article but i also didn t want to publish it and have it hurt spencer s reputation so i never published the interview at all that was over a decade ago since then my theology has radically shifted i owe spencer an apology for not having the courage to publish his statement which today seems so obvious and true here s the deal god is not male god is not female god does not have a gender we use the pronoun he for several reasons one because we don t want to call god an it god is a person and therefore has a personality two because a patriarchal society tends to fashion their deity in the male image in other words god made us in his image and then we returned the favor by making god into an image that reflects ourselves unfortunately the common use of the term he to refer to god creates the illusion that god is male but that is not the case god is spirit god is not male god is not female when the genesis account tells us that mankind was made in the image of god that means that men and women were both made in his image the man was created first yes but hidden within that man was the female therefore both man and woman were the image of god that was created one was hidden inside the other but both were created to reflect the image of god yes the male aspect of god gets more screen time than the female one but there are several images of god as female that unsurprisingly have been overlooked throughout church history but they are there for example when jesus stands up on the last day of the feast and invites everyone to come to me and drink the picture is of a mother nursing her young see john 7 37 this image is repeated when jesus weeps over jerusalem on palm sunday and says that he longs to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wing see luke 13 34 there are many other verses in the old testament hebrew scriptures that speak of god as giving birth to israel and uses metaphors where god nurses them and cares for them like a mother cares for her children the new testament scriptures often speak of us as being born of god and children of god who are nurtured on milk as newborn babes in christ so while we may be accustomed to calling god he it is not blasphemous or inappropriate to call god she or to alternate between the two because as i ve said before god does not have a penis or a vagina god is a spirit and those who worship god do so in spirit and in truth kg posted by keith giles at 10 12 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels female gender god male nature spirit older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me keith giles keith is an author advertising copywriter blogger activist and servant of jesus living in orange county california since 2006 he and his family have been part of a house church that gives away 100 of all offerings to the poor in their community please download keith s books for free or purchase online at the links below view my complete profile subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments pages home this is my body official website my books print and ebook help free organic church resources my podcasts subversive radio teaching on mp3 jesus without religion or politics podcast series videos 5 minute video series and dan notti series jesus untangled blog series the 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