the opening clauses in the Lord’s Prayer, are all about looking to God and God’s future. We then have two commands to be open to fresh winds of the Spirit: don’t quench the Spirit, don’t despise prophesying. New wine is inconvenient in church, embarrassing even; but unless God is doing new things how can we be living as future-oriented people? Finally, three commands to serious moral decisions. Test everything; cling tight to what is good (if you don’t, it’ll slip out of your fingers); back off from
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