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Boast In Weakness

11/30/2015

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Three months ago, Darren and I agreed that he would put up two Facebook posts a month, and I would write a K Anything each month. I assumed I would fail first, but I’m not ready to give up yet. The last two months I have enjoyed writing up ideas for possible juggling shows, and I have also written up a new juggling bit based on the wise and foolish builders that we are actually going to use so I won’t put it on hear. I enjoyed writing these and was planning on writing another bit for the November K Anything. My idea was to expand on our t-shirts.  Our t-shirts have “dropping the ball" on the front and on the back they have 2nd Cor. 12:9

 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
I really like the shirts. Audiences have always been amazingly forgiving of our drops and allowed us to perform with few worries, and I think this is an interesting type of grace that we regularly receive. However, this verse is not actually in the show, so trying to figure out a “boasting in weakness” routine was my goal for the month.
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I haven’t figured anything out. My first ideas involved one person doing something poorly that allowed the other one to shine. This weren’t really right. They ended up making God sound like an insecure bride who forced His bridesmaids to wear ugly dresses, so I threw those out.
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In 2nd Corinthians, the weakness that Paul is talking about is a “thorn in his side” that was given to him to keep him humble.  In a lot of ways a juggling show is just getting on a stage and showing off for while, which makes it hard to think of a way to make an act that centers around humility. Even though I don’t have an idea, I am going to post this. My dad is pretty much the only person who reads these things, and he always comments with an article or two, so hopefully one of those will give me an idea. If I get an idea you’ll read it in January.
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mark
12/2/2015 10:52:17 am

short but good

I don't know if I give you any ideas but I can make this comment long by checking my concordance.

One evidence that we do not have “freewill” is that our deaths are not “voluntary” but forced up on us from the outside. We are more like spectators than participants in our own dying. Judged before we were born, our only hope is the power of God to give us life.

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

1 Corinthians 1:25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling

2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are WEAK IN HIM, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.


Marva Dawn first sets out the standard translation. “My grace is
sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (37). A summary of her argument against this translation consists of the fact there is no possessive pronoun to make “strength” God’s strength and that the verb televw does not mean perfect, but ‘bring to an end’, which is in agreement with its use throughout the rest of the New Testament. Therefore she thinks that 2 Cor 12.9 should be translated “My grace is sufficient for you, for [your] power is brought to its end in weakness.” (41). This allows Dawn to make two fundamental claims about weakness and God’s tabernacling. First “…Paul’s power is brought to its end in his weakness; consequently, Paul glories in his weakness because through its very existence Christ is able to reveal his presence in him” (45), and second, “Even as Christ accomplished atonement for us by suffering and death, so the Lord accomplishes witness to the world through our weakness. Thus God has more need of our weakness than of our strength.” (47).

Sounds good, but no--- If there is no possessive pronoun why does she say Paul is implied when it could be God?

Notice he parallelism in the couplet, grace=power, sufficient =perfect. My grace =my power. Her making perfect, 'come to an end' also takes away the parallelism. Otherwise it would be that Paul's strength was taken away and replaced by his weakness.


Philippians 4: 11 I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content

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David Bishop
12/2/2015 11:03:17 am

What about a bit that you guys have been trying to do for some time but just can't get it to work. It's a thorn in your side.

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mark link
12/3/2015 11:42:13 am

Derek Webb's "Wedding Dress"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53eAvrknuZA

Im a prodigal with no way home
I put you on just like a ring of gold
And I run down the aisle
I run down the aisle to you

So could you love this child
Though I dont trust you to provide
With one hand in a pot of gold
And with the other in your side

'Cause I am so easily satisfied
That I would take a little cash
'Cause I am a whore, I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress

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dad
3/27/2018 06:24:29 am


https://mla.bethelks.edu/holdings/scans/martyrsmirror/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGC9KT918Kk


I know I'm not strong enough to be
Everything that I'm supposed to be
I give up
I'm not strong enough
Hands of mercy won't you cover me
Lord right now I'm asking you to be
Strong enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knuHDPbE5es


Hebrews 11: 32 And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about those who... shut the mouths of lions, those who quenched the raging of fire, those who escaped the edge of the sword, those who gained strength after being weak.... Some were tortured in order to gain a better resurrection, some were mocked and beaten and put in prison. Others were stoned, some were sawed in two,. Some wandered in deserts, hiding in holes in the ground. All of them had faith, but they did NOT receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for US, so that they would not receive what was promised without us at the same time receiving what ws promised




Rich Mullins---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYVCe_8XJX0


Did they tell you stories 'bout the saints of old
Stories about their faith
They say stories like that make a boy grow bold
Stories like that make a man walk straight

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mark
2/12/2021 08:38:27 am

My grace is sufficient FOR YOU. 

Abraham was not nearly as strong as God

God the stronger,  this God swore to Abraham

Abraham took sides with God's command, against God's promise

https://amnetwork.uk/resource/economical-with-the-truth-swearing-and-lying-an-anabaptist-perspective/

weak position

Job---God seems to be killing me, my only hope is God (who else to go to>)

not only what was in the promise,
but WHO made the promise


Genesis 22: 14 And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide so today it is said: “It will be provided on the Lord’s mountain.”  15 Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven 16 and said, “BY MYSELF I HAVE SWORN.  this is the Lord’s declaration: “BECAUSE you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,17 I will indeed bless you and make your children numerous

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