Darian Hickman
I love warm weather, soccer, social entrepreneurs, and Jesus. I'm obsessed about the future and want to design it via a video game called Village the Game: love may abound more and more in knowledge - Friday, September 30, 2005
Philippians 1:9-10 (New International Version)
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,
And this is what I have been struggling with mentally--should I go for a deeper experience of spiritual phenomenon like casting out demons, healing people, clairvoyant intercession, and spiritual warfare, the kind of stuff you read about in Acts and the Gospels but don't often see today OR should I pursue a way to serve through social entrepreneurship, my organically grown passion, arising from all that I've read and done in college and seen at work in the world as being an effective way to "fight for the poor and the oppressed". Are those spiritual gifts something to be developed over time or should I accept current level of experience with spiritual gifts as my permanent level? Should I go forth with my pragmatic wisdom and tell people about the wisdom I found in the Bible or should I commit to loving them exactly like Christ did: healing people, prophecying to them, casting out demons, calming the storms, and miracously multiplying the food supply?
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ,
And this is what I have been struggling with mentally--should I go for a deeper experience of spiritual phenomenon like casting out demons, healing people, clairvoyant intercession, and spiritual warfare, the kind of stuff you read about in Acts and the Gospels but don't often see today OR should I pursue a way to serve through social entrepreneurship, my organically grown passion, arising from all that I've read and done in college and seen at work in the world as being an effective way to "fight for the poor and the oppressed". Are those spiritual gifts something to be developed over time or should I accept current level of experience with spiritual gifts as my permanent level? Should I go forth with my pragmatic wisdom and tell people about the wisdom I found in the Bible or should I commit to loving them exactly like Christ did: healing people, prophecying to them, casting out demons, calming the storms, and miracously multiplying the food supply?
