Tuesday, September 19, 2006

What roles have you played in your life of mission with God?
Let's see if those around you see what you see.


Sobering - to know if we could have been more.
Encouraging - to know that we can be more - now that we are aware of God's desire to use us in particular ways.

Also, the smallest things we've been - friends, jokers and livewires - God has used us.


What a challenge it is then, to take a step into serious consideration of our service to God - in a significant contribution to the lives of those whome He has called us to serve.

What better practical step then to ask "Where, O God, are You leading me to serve in my Church?"

May we all find and commit ourselves to a place of service - recover a generation of young working adults in church who love Jesus and express it in an obvious and exemplary way.

Let's move into Jordan!
Welcoming new friends -

Something we ought to do naturally. But yet, for most, it's an un-natural act that requires us to make an intentional, proactive decision - to reach out and welcome someone.

I'm glad we all did.

got to meet new friends thi month haven't we? Hope some of you got to say hello to those folks on Sundays. It's a good thing if you let the rest of Jordan know if you have friends coming to church with you - we will be more than glad to welcome them warmly and perhaps share the gospel with them if the Lord opens an opportune door.

Its a great time to get ourselves used to living like this on Sundays - with a new interest and expectation for God things to happen- our friends and families finding life, complete turnaround from disease and disaster - coming to know Jesus Christ as we know Him.

You've been a great bunch and in many ways, I know God has begun to warm your hearts more towards Him in a real way... with that comes a new desire to participate in serving Him in some way.

Our journey with God comes with an inseparable dimension - our service to God, being used by Him in some powerful way, which only in His strength we can accomplish. How has God guided you today?
Well about time to post something!

What better way than to have a re-cap of our journey so far?

If God is a Guide, not just a stagnant roadmap, it pays to look back at how our Guide has led us - and listen afresh for our journals (sorry robin! no journal yet!).

On 4 August - “God invites you to be involved with Him and His work”.
We then talked and explored scripture on the other dimension of our Christian life – our service to God. God led to us to see the very real needs of those around us and sense the urgency of His invitation for us to be involved in His mission. The LG then watched a segment from “Transformations”, a real life documentary of how God touched a community plagued with painful needs. We then prayed and ministered to one another.

On 18 August, we discussed the Seven Spiritual Markers when God guides us on mission. We acknowledge that at each and every point, we can choose to reject, ignore and short-circuit our mission with God. Mission with God, is thus, not an automatic or accidental outcome. Our discipleship demands that we pay intentional attention to following Christ amidst the reality of our careers and family life.

We looked more intently at “Your Relationship with God will determine Your Activities” – this was complemented by a time of looking into our own private world with God. It was a sobering time as we acknowledged the quality of inner lives after all our years of knowing Jesus – and the need to intentionally create space for God.

On 1 September - “God sends you where He can best work through you”. But we focused on the truth that “Everyone rightly related to Him is on mission with God. He drops you into the time line of His local, global, and eternal kingdom activity”

We reviewed that:
-God chooses Us
-There is a TRUE call for us as a disciple to a vocation with Christ
-Our inner life with God will govern our activities
-We committed ourselves, no matter how, to make space for the discipline of quiet time/prayer listening/reading in our lives.

And brought ourselves, after thinking about it for the week, to answer:
“Do you think you are now in the Centre of God's Will? if Yes/No, why do you feel that way?” and “Why are you doing what you do now (i.e vocation/service in church etc)? Does anything need change?”