Zac Poonen - Learning from Jesus Riding on a Donkey
Summary
Jesus riding on a donkey exemplifies God's counter-cultural values, deliberately rejecting human standards of honor, attractiveness, and capability. Through this image and examples like the Apostle Paul and Joni Eareckson Tada, Zac Poonen teaches that God deliberately uses the weak, despised, and overlooked to accomplish His purposes, and believers should value others not by worldly metrics but by recognizing Christ's presence in them.
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Speaker: Zac Poonen Title: Learning from Jesus Riding on a Donkey Date: 07/06/2025 Our Goal as Christians is this: To be an exact reflection of Jesus, the Son of God (Romans 8:29) We do this individually by growing in purity in our personal lives (1 John 3:2-3) We do this corporately by becoming fully functioning members of a local Church (Ephesians 4:11-16)
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