Missional Impulse by Dr. Stephen Johnson, Cornerstone, 31 October 2011

What does it mean to think and act missionally?

How is missional living connected to Christian story?

How might a missional life begin now?

Bluegrass music.

Understanding Bluegrass music...

Is to understand the Apalachian Mountains.

The land in the mountains were cheap, most immigrants chose to live there. They brought their instruments, and started making new music. Influenced over time by the environment, politics, war, change.

Anykind of music carries all of this things. Having stories of their own...

What's your soundtrack of your own life?

Pop? Rock? Hip hop? Country? Latin? Christian?

We learn to be students of our mind/process/think/decisions.

What's up with the music?

Act I:

Missional Impulse: Incarnation

Begins with God, His son's death. His coming into the world.

Self-giving, grace, mercy.

He calls us into His misson, to embody for the same thing for the sake of the world.

We understand our identity, our vocation, primarily as the people of the world to give ourselves for the world.

Act II: Knowing the Community.

Missional Impulse: Meeting God in the Stranger

Men are strangers as called or describe in the Bible

Like Abraham and Sarah in the wilderness.

We sent into the world as someone for another.

As how we treat others, we are acting on what the Bible says that Jesus would treat you.

Conflict of Interest.

Act III: The Wilderness?

Slowing down...

You can't pay attention, simplify, be content with wshat you have.

Missonal Impulse: Meeting God at the Margin.

This notion is where Christians can find themselves in the 21st century.

Powerlessness will cause us to notice what we have.

Acts IV: New Jerusalem

To discover at the start, to have a vision of a goal/desire to live out for God.

How to make a difference...

Missional Impulse: Imagining God's Future into Reality.

To not thread the same path as Christians did before but to dream, to offer their lives for the world.

To pray thy kingdom come and thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

The End.

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"Those People" - The Needy, October 30, 2011. Lifechurch

Those People
Those "overly needy" people.

Emotionally needy people.
Sometimes when we encounter needy people and don't help them in the right way, we hurt them and overselves.

Difference between relief & restoration:

Relief: Immediate & temporary assistance.
We should ambush them with the love of God. Be there for them in a massive way.

Restoration: Working with people to restore them to their God-given potential.
It takes a lot of time and effort, which is why not a lot of people do this. You help them work with their problems through long periods of time, and they might fall again and you will need to pick them up til they are secure.

The problem is, today, we tend to provide relief and not restoration.

Restoration:
Acts 3:1-8
"One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer - at three in the afternoon. Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put everyday to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!" So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give to you, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles become strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God."

The crippled man was provided relief by people by helping him to rich places so he can beg from the rich who want to look good.
Peter gave him restoration by reaching out to him, so that the man can pick himself up.


Three Prayers of a Restorer:

1. God help me give people what they truly need not just what they want.
Peter gave the man the ability to walk. People would ask for what they want rather than need. The crippled man "needed money" but Peter knew he needed a job.

There will be times when we are tempted to tell/give them what they want, but let God tell you what they need.

Acts 3:6

2. God help me stay out of your way by not continually rescuing people from their consequences.

Do not be decieved: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Galatians 6:7

When you sow stupid seeds, you reap stupid people.
Don't give stupid advice/help.

Consequences, consequences, consequences...

The prodigal son, who took his fortune and spent it all, ended up in a pig pen. His father did not look for him but let his son come to his senses to come back to his father.


3. God, help me remember that I'm in need too and that you are always the answer.

"Yet I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay."
Psalm 70:5

When you and other another person realize that we're all in need, then both of you come together for a similar need. Mutually broken people in need of Christ.
Then we can come to our sens for our God-given potential.

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Switching, cause I love switching the lights off.

This blog is too awesome for me, so I've decided that I'll only post my notes( chapel, church, classes ) here.

I've been thinking about using wordpress, and so instead of making superdastic life event posts on blogspot, I'll post them on wordpress.

Cause it's not fair, firstly, for my friends, whom I honor, for their time spent coming to my blog when there is an update.

Second, I have never been updating anything about what is happening around; moreover, this blog is just filled with, really good spiritual exciting life changing bombastic phenomenal notes about God.

Third, I find it really, really, really weird that people search me on google(blogspot says "google" is spelled wrong, like if I am gonna put an apostrophe for Google)[wait... a minute...=_=] and to their dismay they find notes about God.... ACTUALLY :D that means that they can come here and read about God and then, like a good boy I am, I've planted a, well... sprinkled water on their life about God. Memoir here people, kudos to me.

Fourth, visitors that I get on my blog are usually searching on the subjects that I have on my notes. I'm happy if they find something useful, but deeply hurt that no one comments or gives a "thanks that really helped me". I guess it decreases spam mail, but who wouldn't want to be told that they were helpful? :P

Which makes me think, I should totally post a note on the top of this blog which states, "if this helped you please just give a thank you." I'ma genius 8B.

Fifth, I have big dreams so one day I wanna be freaking awesome and like awesome while still be doing something good.

So what now?

To my friends... if you like my notes, hey what ever floats your boat X) but if you wanna stalk me then its my wordpress.

To visitors who read this blog, don't hate meeeee.

To my stalkers, keep on rockin' :D

Jaelga "WHUUTTTTDDDDDDD????"

Its good-bye in korean "WHUUUUUTTTTT DDDDD:?????"

Yeah I know korean, lawyered.

Connerstone, Week 6: Decision Making by Dr. Jeanene Reese

Decisions...

Making the right decision in life.
God's will/purpose/destiny?
What will you decide?

Ability to think/logic/rationality = what seperates humans and animals.
This is wrong.
Learning how to think, makes you think better.

Ways of Knowing: keys to adaptive decision-making
1. Adaptations.
2. Sense-making.
3. Expertise.
4. Decision making.
Intuition.
Improvisation.

Baboons are scary. Like so scary...

Dr. Jeanene,
"God would always be the Lord of all decisions.
A woman of prayer.
Seek counsel of other brothers and sisters.
I would not regret the decisions I make.
I decidied to trust God not only with my decisions, but in them."

The truth is the bigger decision is how would you be a Christian in what you do.

What type of friends will I have? What will I do in my life?

Adjustment bureau people :P
Make your own choices, make your own path,
You have free will,
But do all these things in the light of God.

BOOM

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Passing the Test, Week 2: When we test God, October 23, 2011

Malachi 3:6-11 ESV
"For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statues and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' 8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. 9You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the window of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until tueres is no more need. 11I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. "

10 Facts about the Tithe:

1. Tithe means 10 percent.
2. It describes the immediate gift of ten percent of your income at your first opportunity.
3. It's a symbol.
4. It is to be off the top.
5. It is a universal law like the Sabbath rest.
6. It was part of the law but predates the law and continues after the law.
7. It was practical throughout church history.
8. It was a thermometer of spiritual vitality.
9. It's important to God.
10. It's the starting place for New Testament giving.

Malachi 3:8-9
Do not rob God of what He has given to you. Imagine if God gave everyone around you first then left the last ten percent for you...

Akon robbed from God. Old Testament.

Acts 5, New Testament.

Malachi 3:10
God wants us to test Him when it comes to our financial needs. Give His portion and test Him to let Him provide for us.

90 percent with you and God is more than a 100 percent with you on your own.

Why Tithe to the Local Church?
1. You get the wisdom of a group.
2. It avoids "send and forget".
3. It avoids the tendency toward control.
4. Sow back into the fields that you have harvested from.

Malachi 3:10b
Put God to the test... "...and see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you."

Tithe is allocating ownership.
Tithing is saying everything I own belongs to God, and that I am giving back what should be God's.
Accountibility.
He has done so much for us, is it not "right" for us to repay Him?

Malachi 3:11 ESV
"I sill rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts."

Principles
1. Stealing from God has significant consequences.
2. Financial partnership with God brings significant blessings.
3. Faith comes before miraculous provision.
4. Prove the tithe.

Be challenged to tithe :)

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Passing the Test, Why God Tests Us. Week 1, Oct 16, 2011

James 1:1-5
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve trives in the Dispersion: Greetings.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
3 for you know that the testing of your gaith produces steadfastness.
4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."


Joy is a supernatural Delight.

In the Person of God.

In the Purpose of God

In the People of God.


Verse 1-2
"Count it.. "
Consider, calculate, press down on your tests in life.

Ask Yourself :
1. What happened to me?
:Oooooooooo

2. Why am I here on earth?
Cause its 11:28 right now

3. How can what's happening to me advance the purpose for why I'm still here?
We're here because we show the superiority of God on earth.

Verse 3 "For you know the testing..."
Your faith is being tested.

God is always testing us. He tests all His children.

3 parts of questions to ask during God's test.

1. Do you believe that God is in control?

2. Do you believe that God is good?

3. Are you willing to wait by faith until you see it?

Consider tests as joy.
".... you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." Verse 3.

Hooo po ne. Greek word.
Means - remain under.

The ability to remain under.
God is teaching us how to handle pressure.

When the pressure is on, we try to get out of it.
Escaping, run away, lash out, bail.

Verse 4 " and let hoopone have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. "

Hoopone is the single fundamental characteristic that through all Christian virtue/fruits grows.

If God can produce this characteristic in you, then you can have everything.

Verse 5 " if you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."

Don't ask why this is happening to me...
Rather ask God what does He want us to learn from this.
Then only then will He answer us.

What's the purpose?
What can I learn from this?

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Perspectives from the Arts, week 6, connerstone.

Dan McGregor

Artistic Questions:
What does art do

How do we know if a work of art us great?

Are value jugdgments important to thinking critically?


Making Aesthetic Judgments

A topomap, shows geographical map details.
Ansel Adams, "The Tetons and the Snake River (1942)"
Art, a different way of seeing and knowing things.

What is aesthetics?
Aesthetics - branch of philosophy dealing with beauty or taste.

Art Auction

Tim Keller, his opinions about art.
"...most people know good art when they see it."

Bathos and pathos.
Bathos, just explains it. Exciting waterfall.
Pathos, makes you feel it. Surging water, from the heights of heavens.

Test Criterion for Great Art:
1. Popular Appeal.
Thomas Kinkade, Lakeside Manor (2006)
More of his art in peoples house than Michaelangelo.

2. Worth by Association
Celebrity worth, many people are fans of it.
Pablo Picasso, Boy with Pipe (1905)
Head of a Woman (1965)

3. Market Value
The more money is cost, then it must be good.

Damien Hirst, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (1992, 2006)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, "The Finding of Moses" (1904)
Was known so when in the early 20th century, later on was forgotten, and remembered again in 21st century.


4. Critical Recognition
If the experts say its a great art work, then we need to listen to them.

Tracey Emin
My Bed (1998)

So... how do we judge?
Creating the Canon.
All the arts, music, theater.

LOL.........
Takes a 100 years to see whether it is good.

Paul Schrader's
"Refurbished Criteria for a Film Canon"
1. Beauty
2. Strangeness
3. Unity of Form and Subject Matter
4. Tradition
5. Repeatability
6. Viewer Engagement
7. Morality

Repeatability, to be able to come back to an art and find new meaning to it.

Critical Thinking About Aesthetics

1. Give difficult art a fair shake before dismissing it.
2. Like what you like, divorced from both popular and critical opinion.
3. "Enjoyable" and "Great" aren't necessarily synonyms.

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Unleashed, October 9, 2011, Beltway Park

Acts 2:42-47

Talent show, fear of public speaking.
Has been a top ten fear for years.
The problem is what to show during show n tell?




Part of who we are as followers of Jesus is a witness. (Acts 1:8) How do I live as a witness?

Show and tell.

The Holy Spirit empowers us to be everything we need to be.


1. We show the gospel by walking the walk.

The original idea of a hypocrite was one who wears a mask as an actor - one who plays multiple roles.

Roman actors were called hypocrites as they acted out roles during ancient times.

Integrity, integer. A number that is not a fraction, but complete. A whole.

The utter opposite of hypocrisy. The opposite of coming into to church and to agree and but go out and live out a different way.

We have not been living out a Christian life as we say we should.


Integrity is conducting our lives in a Christian way. It doesn't mean I'm perfect and have it all together.

If we are "working out our salvation," it means we are growing. If we're growing, we haven't arrived and don't have it all together - but we are growing. (Phil 2:12)

People appreciate - people admire - those who are willing to strive to live like they say they believe.

And people are sure more willing to listen to what we might tell them when we have already shown them the joys of the gospel through our own lives.

2. We show the gospel by deeply loving each other.

The people were amazed by what they saw.
John 13:35

Meet together in homes, live together, ate together. Loved each other. Acts 2:46

Spirit empowered generosity, Acts 2:44


As a result of the radical love in the early church they were "enjoying the favor of all people." How did all the people - meaning those who were part of the community of faith as well as those who weren't - how did they know all this was happening?

Those early followers of Jesus were always inviting people to join them.

When people did join them, they saw imperfec messed up people honestly asking God to help them grow. They saw people give to - pray for - love each other.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

But one they see how much we care, they might care to know why we care so much. And we can tell them about what we know. Or, more accurately, we can tell them about why we know.

Believe it or not, the simple invititation to come and see - come and join me in worship on Sunday, come and join me at my LifeGroup - a low pressure invitation to come and see is likely the most common first step in being a witness.

3. We show the gospel by encountering the presence of God .

Christianity isn't merely a philosophy of life of doctrines to be believed or principles to be followed.

It is all those things, but at the core Christianity is vibrant relationship with a loving Father who is working powerfully among His people today.

Awe inspiring things still are happening. Miracles still happen today.

Jesus said we should expect the Father to work in powerful, awe inspiring ways to confirm to people the message we have regarding Jesus. (Mark 16:16-18)

Live out our lives, so that people can see that this guy is something else.

What if we started asking God to show us opportunities where we can pray for people?

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Dating, College Park. Both Guys and Girls :)

The lose type of relationship.
And the extreme type of relationship.

Extremes in God.
Living in fear while in a relationship.
God wants you to be married.
It is ok to feel attracted to the opposite sex.
God created us to be attracted.
The issue is whether we're gonna do it in the light of God.

What defines, what dating really ought to be like? Or look like?
Do let Jesus to allow show you how it looks like?
Do we trust Him?
Will you really trust what God has to say about dating?

Godly dating?
No scripture. No text, no paul.
Nothing to tell us what to do.

Is it possible to understand what dating is, in this century?

Discover when God calls us a man/woman.
Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

Define the most important part of dating:
Your singleness is the most important part.
Who you are when your single is who you would be when your dating.

1. Define who you are in Christ.
Where you long for Christ to change you from the inside out.

Galatians 2: 20
"I have crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live. But Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

If your singleness is not right, then your heading towards turmoil.
Two sinful people does not make a right.

2. Maturity in God
Ephesians 4, unity and mature. To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

It does not have to do with perfection.
You do not have to be perfect to date.
Maturity happens when we die in our problems and ask God to help us.

Relationships work when both parties hold each other up to work together and grow in Christ.
God wants to root out all the sinful secret junk.
God wants us to deal with our secret sin, to be honest.
If you haven't dealt with it, then the relationship will not work out.
You will self-implode, when you wait to solve your secret sin.
Honesty.
Many married couples are in distraught because the wives are weeping because their husbands are locked down to pornography.
Being in a relationship does not stop pornography.



Godly Community.
Use this season of singleness to solve your problems.
Be right now, before you move on.

If you get along great with the opposite sex, there's probably something wrong you have with the same sex.

It is wrong to be in a relationship and having close friends who are the opposite sex. Your partner will not be happy.

Healthy Interaction with the Opposite Sex.
1 Timothy 5: 5
"Do not rebuke older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity."
It is bad to use woman to your own self pleasure.
Vice versa to woman.
Do not treat men other than brothers.

For guys:
1. Biblical man, in the scriptures when it comes to dating.
2. Called to be of honor, called to comminucate, called to pursue.
3. Reject being a pansy. Lol... man up. Don't be some limping puppy.
Biblical dating is about Biblical manhood, and God is whom we should copy.

Romans 12:9-10
"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."

Men start to honor, are when they start to communicate.
You honor a girl by saying what your thinking and doing what you said.
Don't be a chicken, do what you say.
Be king of the DTR. Define The Relationship.

Dudes should be the one leading the way that defines the relationship.
Men are the ones whom should be chasing the women.

If you like a girl, be honest and say something like:
"Hey I really enjoyed hanging out with you, would you like to hang out soon. Could I call you and go to lifegroup?"
That's what lifegroup is for :D
Taking time to let her know that your interested in her.

Friends, "intentional friendship", Relationship. :P

It is important to know the girl in her community.
To see what she's like, how she lives with her friends, peers, leaders. Know who she is.


Girls stop wondering what guys are thinking.
But if he calls you and wants to hang out with you with some friends then you know what his thinking.
Girls you have every right to say yes/no.
You have more control.
1000 years ago women were traded like possessions.
Don't listen to the world.
The world is brutal to women.
Woman are the 50% of the creation.
Guys have to wait too, if God did not give him the green light then he does not deserve you.

Proverbs 4:23
"Keep your heart with all vigilance, ..."

When the time has been spent in the intentional friendship.
The guys, you have the chance to ask her out, to be honest.

The girls, you have the right to say yes or no.
Be honest with them.

Guys, you supremely honor. Pay for everything.
Use de-odorant. Open the door.
Do all of this, because when time passes and she feels that your not keeping her, then she can walk away.

Ladies, too keep your heart, if the dude only talks about apples and rashes, walk away.
Don't lie, don't give the God told me this or that.....
You do not worry about hurting people's feelings, because God wants you to be honest. He handles everything.
Cause the hurt can look to God for help.


When it goes well, you spent time with each other in community and dating. If the people around you agree and she also feels the same then it is time to move on.

Time to give gifts, write notes, flowers.
Share hearts.
There are no rules, but be faithful and honor God, in a Godly way.

Measure of physical interaction:
Men, you define the relationship.
Men you talk about the boundaries.

The moronic question :
How far is too far?
The real question is,
How far is too far till you anger God?

When you go pass those boundaries with someone your not in covenant with, you will start to rot.
You won't be able to lead out as a Biblical man.
You dishonor your wife.

What if we're not physically compatible?
Then you have your whole marriage.

If your seeking to do as much as you do and get away with it, then your destroying your life.

Guys, man-up, the most honest thing you can do, is ask the girl's father whether you can be in a relationship with her.
Make him know that you will honor her in everyway.
The girl is worth it to do that.
Don't worry about the father, any father would feel honored to know that a guy wants to honor his daugther.

There is no sex in dating. It would be all about your selfishness. Even if you are still a virgin and did everything else under the sun then you have sinned.
Sexual immorality is sin.

1 Corinthians 6:19b -20
"You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."

Jesus can purify anything. If you have sinned, do not lose hope, do not think you horrible. God is creator. God makes all things new. Through all things are pure. through Him you can stand pure at your wedding day.

Date in a Godly way.

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Dr. Jon Camp, Social Sciences.

What are the Social Sciences?
A set of analytical tools to help us explore the complexity of human experiences.

Social science at the drive-thru?

Persepctives from the social sciences.

1.What are the social sciences?

2.What counts as evidence in the social sciences?

3.How do the social sciences help us think critically?

Perception is Weird.
We don't always know what is going on about people.
A society of making decisions without knowing the consequences of our minds.

Awareness test; moonwalking bear. :P

Truth does not reveal itself to lazy thinkers.
The brain only runs a dim lightbulb.

What do we social scientists actually do?
What are social sciences?
Methods
It is based on grounded information


Quantitative methods:
Surveys and satistical analyses
Patterns


Qualitative methods:
In-depth interviews and observation.
Not measuring but specificness, and details.

Critical ethnography:
Research that specifically challenges status quo.

People think social science
Soft sciences, not real, not smart enough science.

Broad patterns
The media influences our perception.

Limitations?
It is closed ended answers. Fixed answers.

Qualitative is open.
Virtue of attentiveness.

Social science
It can be a powerful weapon for those who are oppressed.

Dwight Conquorgood.
Did research on the social activities that lead to gang activities.
To respond to the world justly, you first have to perceive it clearly.
The problem for the people were there weren't enough jobs.

Research or agenda pushing?
His ability to be objective?

If we lose objectivity, have we lost our validity?
Objectivity and critical thinking.

1. We should try to remain objective, but we need to be intellectually honest.

2. Even when we might lose some objectivity in research, we haven't necessesarily lost validity as long as our methods are sound and transparent.

What does this have to do with my major?
Ethtical care.

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Identity crisis, engage the mission of God

AWho am I?
We try to be someone, to try to look cool.
We think that if we had a certain level of something we would look cool.



Do we care about the things of God because it will make us look good?

If we don't understand our identity we won't be able to do the mission of God.

Bear a burden that you will never meant to carry.
More concerned with our calling then with our identity.
Who is God?
Who am I?
What is God's will for my life?

Focused on our identity than on the need of others.
If you wanna know who you are in God then we need to meditate. To relate with Him.

We are the Sons and Daughters of God.

If we think about ourself, do we really believe it?
If we do then we are free to go out and care for someone else. Motivation is getting identity or compassion?
We need to settle ourself so that we can help others.
If we are secure with ourselves with God then we can think about others who are not secure.

To pray for compassion to understand the needs of the world.
Don't take it as, a command to do something.
Be secure with ourselves. It is not a need for us to become someone in Christ. We already are.
Then have compassion for others.

When the need is our focus, we start doing nosense.
People then tell us it is our gift or calling. ?? ????

We need to care about the needs around us.
When we start doing the needs then we can find our gifting.
But when we start doing the needs of the world then we can see that it doesn't matter what our gifts are but the burning desire to do help.

Do we discount the needs of other things because we are not there or because we can't do it?

2 Corinthians 5:17-21
In trusted, commited:
God has commited to us this message.
There is no plan B.
We are ambassadors of the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 24:14
Ethnos

2 Peter 3:9
God isn't slow with His promise
He is patient to allow time for people to be saved.
That is the compassion of God for men.

There are many things happening in other nations.
People are suffering out there.
Neighbors, right infront of us.

Do we see the needs out there? The darkness that needs our light?
We are the light of the world. Jesus said He is the light of the world and told us we are too.

Find the needs, look at the needs of others.
Then we can change people.
We are somebody then go do something.

Let our focus be of burning and compassion, and one that loves Jesus.

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Fire

To build a good fire, we need a good spark.
The key to a good fire is actually having good fuel.

Looking for spiritual sparks.
But missing the spiritual fuel.
Seminars, to get excited.
Events, and talks.

What is the fuel?
Walking in the body of Christ and as a disciple.
We are not alone, together with Christians it keeps the fire going.
We case after the experience,
Challenges keeps us going.

Challenge:
World's worst lifegroup
Boring church
Hurt by the church

What is church?
Church is the body of Christ. The people, christians, are Christs body. He is the head. We the people need to work together to make it work like a body shoul work. Everyone has a specific role, talent, gifts. Together it forms the church and teamwork is needed.
The church is a place where people can go to spend time with God. To bring other people so that they can learn about Jesus.

Is church a culture?
Is it how we perceived it to be?
Is it a value we have?

Figure out what the church is.
Church means called out ones in greek.

Matthew 16:18

Ephesians.
We are the body. The fullness of Him on this earth.

Ephesians 3:10
The church is Gods vehicle.

The bride to Christ.

On fire for God.

Turn church into a consumer church
Hopping from church to church.
To consume from different parts to fulfill yourself.

Matthew 28:18-
The great commission.
Love.

4 commands
1. Go
It is not them who we ask to come, but us who go to them.

2. Make disciples of all nations
Discipleship is to help people to become disciples of Jesus.


3. Baptism
Causes people to go, energize


4. Teaching to obey.
Modeled lifestyle.
To help people to learn how to learn from God.
Deceived ourselves by teaching people.
Hears the Word and puts it into practice.
Learn to obey.
Heart of love.
Ask Jesus to obey.
The lifegroup can impact the world.
Sacrifice for others.

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Treasure Your Treasure, Beltway College Park 2011 Fall Retreat.

E3
Encounter Jesus
Embrace the church
Engage His mission

Treasures of the kingdom.
The treasures that people find, what do they do with it?
Do they keep it?
Do they try to save it for themselves?
Do they try to find a way to get it?

To treasure our treasures from God. To protect it, to sell all we have for it.

1.The hard ground.
Hearing the Word, and not receive it.

2.The rocks.
Trials, droughts. There will be these in our lives.
We need a root system. Good roots in Jesus will allow us to tap in to Jesus even when in dry times. Build a good relationship with Jesus. In conflict you pull together, not apart. To press in when pushed out.
We need to know our relationship with Jesus.
In hard times we build our relationship with Him.

3. Thorns
Distractions from growing; to stop our maturity.
We are bad at distiguishing structure and values.
Different phases of our lives : each with a new way of spiritual living. With new seasons in our lives we need to press in to know how to fit everything in properly, so that we do not fall out. To go through life with God.
Get pumped up about God.
To reenergize.
To recharge.
Start anew.

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