On Feb 22nd there was a retreat in our church. University students, working people and young families came together to have a time of worship, learning and fellowship
You can see me in the middle top.
Here is an excerpt from a book I am reading.
Wherever you look in the Bible you are faced with risk takers.Humanly speaking Jesus was the greatest risk taker. If you were calling people to follow you would you have picked the disciples? Tax collectors, fishermen, radicals and the traditional all made up Jesus ' inner circle. There were people who were ambitious,longing to see a new order come. Others just seem to have been plain confused. Some spoke up and others just talked among themselves.
Imagine leaving that group to develop the Church and take the gospel into the world. If you or I were planning a world-wide strategy to share the most important message in the history of language,I think we would have been a bit more choosy. The charismatic personality, or the leading academic would have swayed us. Experience would be vital, and we would have wanted three references. Applicants would have needed to take a personality test to check their mental stability.
For us style and substance would have to knit together in the proposed candidate. If the person we wanted was of influence, so much the better. I don 't think that any of the people that Jesus called would have made our short list. What a great comfort that is. God did not call just the perfect, the beautiful or the obviously gifted. God continues to delight us in taking risks with people. God calls and encourages the weak, ordinary and in the world 's eyes the totally unremarkable. God takes risks on people like you and I. However, are we willing to take risks in our walk with God?
(Taken from Fred Drummond' s book "I Spy The Rainbow")
These little sisters share the same birthday a year or so apart!
Here is an excerpt from a book I am reading.
Wherever you look in the Bible you are faced with risk takers.Humanly speaking Jesus was the greatest risk taker. If you were calling people to follow you would you have picked the disciples? Tax collectors, fishermen, radicals and the traditional all made up Jesus ' inner circle. There were people who were ambitious,longing to see a new order come. Others just seem to have been plain confused. Some spoke up and others just talked among themselves.
Imagine leaving that group to develop the Church and take the gospel into the world. If you or I were planning a world-wide strategy to share the most important message in the history of language,I think we would have been a bit more choosy. The charismatic personality, or the leading academic would have swayed us. Experience would be vital, and we would have wanted three references. Applicants would have needed to take a personality test to check their mental stability.
For us style and substance would have to knit together in the proposed candidate. If the person we wanted was of influence, so much the better. I don 't think that any of the people that Jesus called would have made our short list. What a great comfort that is. God did not call just the perfect, the beautiful or the obviously gifted. God continues to delight us in taking risks with people. God calls and encourages the weak, ordinary and in the world 's eyes the totally unremarkable. God takes risks on people like you and I. However, are we willing to take risks in our walk with God?
(Taken from Fred Drummond' s book "I Spy The Rainbow")
9 Fertilize my soul:
Last time during the sermon our pastor said, that Jesus was really brave man - He came to Jerusalem, despite the fact, that there were people, who hated Him.
I see, that Your church is big community.
Hi Zim, people from different churches came together.
Yes Jesus was determined to go to Jerusalem, knowing that it would be his last journey.
Jesus has a way of making the unlovely .. lovely .. and using the broken to mend. His ways are perfect and in their simplistic nature bring the message of the Gospel to all humanity .. a very far reaching approach :)
"Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of me", Mark 1 verse 17. It all depends on what the Lord Jesus makes us become.
Mrs Mac, that 's right.
Yes David, how great is our God
I was thinking something very similar to what Mrs. Mac said...The Lord calls the unlovable and then calls us to love the same. Very good post! I may have to add that book on my reading list!
Dear Amrita,
I'm so happy for you. You belong to a living, seeking congregation, and you are looking so strong and good.
I agree, God is the one taking the risks, letting his good reputation on a stake by letting us call ourselves Christians.
I say like Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?"
God is God and Jesus Christ can choose what manner and what kind of people He can associate with in spreading the Gospel to the world. Thanks for the post. God bless you always.
Dear Felisol,people came together from different churches to have fellowship together
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