Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

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Scriptures on the Validity of Seeing All Things as Unified and Whole

Ps. 27.4 (ESV) – One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Luke 10.39-42 (ESV) – And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. [40] But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” [41] But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, [42] but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” Phil. 3.13 (ESV) – Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead [14] I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Ps. 73.25 (ESV) – Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

Mark 8.36 (ESV) – For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Luke 18.22 (ESV) – When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

John 17.3 (ESV) – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

1 Cor. 13.3 (ESV) – If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Gal. 5.6 (ESV) – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. Col. 2.8-10 (ESV) – See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemen tal spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. [9] For in him the