It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.
Interpretation
Focusing on love rather than avoiding sin changes behavior positively.
John Wimber's quote implies that preoccupation with sinning can lead to more of that behavior, while focusing on love—specifically, a deep love for Jesus—can transform one's actions and reduce sinful behaviors. This suggests that love and positive thinking can be more powerful than fear or guilt in guiding one's moral choices.
In practice
During a sermon, the pastor quoted John Wimber to emphasize the importance of love in overcoming personal struggles.
Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.
We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.
I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
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