Growing in Grace Together - Jim Robbins - The Good and Noble Heart - Part 2

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Part 2 of Joel's interview with Jim Robbins, author of the book Recover Your Good Heart.  (Here's Part 1). Among other things, this week Jim talks about the desires of our hearts, and how God is a God of desire and how desire is a good thing and is integral in every part of our lives.  Using some personal stories, Joel and Jim talk about how our relationships with God and with each other should be motivated by desire, and not by duty or robotic obedience.

Also discussed is the question of what to do with the desires that we have that don't line up with who we are in Christ.  Are those really "our" desires?  Do those desires come from the new heart?  And Jim ends up talking about the question of whether or not a person should stay in a fellowship/local assembly in which the true message of grace and the new heart is not being taught.  A very thought provoking conversation that will help us to recognize and live from the new good and noble heart that God has given us!

Find out more about Jim's ministry - The Good and Noble Heart - which includes a blog, a Ning community and a Facebook community.

Growing in Grace Together - Jim Robbins - The Good and Noble Heart - Part 1

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Joel had the pleasure of sitting down with his good friend Jim Robbins, author of the book Recover Your Good Heart, for a two-part interview. Jim talks about his ministry - The Good and Noble Heart - which includes a blog, a Ning community and a Facebook community as well.  These days, people are truly connecting and finding authentic, meaningful relationship through sources such as these online communities.

Joel asks Jim to define and describe what he means by the "heart," and about the difference between what is said in the Bible about a heart that is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" and a heart that is "good and noble."

Listen in for some great conversation about why Christians tend to walk around in guilt and shame, and why there seems to be such a focus in the church on behavior management and sin management - and how living with a New Covenant mentality rather than an Old Covenant mentality, as well as a proper view of the new heart, will overcome all of that.

The conversation was only getting started - Here's Part 2!

Guest on 'The Good and Noble Heart' podcast

This afternoon Jim Robbins had Joel as a guest on his podcast, The Good and Noble Heart. Jim and Joel had a really great discussion, talking about several things including:

-The new Grace Roots community on ning.com
-People being alone in their grace walk
-The worldwide body of Christ being able to connect with and encourage one another in God's love and grace through the internet
-How community is not just about one person's agenda, but rather everyone has things to bring to the table
-What it looks like when people aren't walking according to God's grace and their new good heart
-Several other things revolving around being established in grace and growing in grace

Just as Joel had found in studying Jim's Recover Your Good Heart study guide with other people, Jim asked really great questions that provided for a really great discussion on this podcast. You can download the podcast and/or listen directly by clicking on the widget below.