In this first trimester at “Something Else” we looked at three main aspects of living a Christian life: firstly, how to live out our Christian faith in a post-modern, hedonistic and materialistic society; secondly, how we can present Christianity to those people who are seldom at church… in other words how to reach a missional generation; and thirdly, how then should we as a church engage with the culture around us?
In order to do that, we had a look at a book called “Distinctives”, written by Vaughan Roberts. It brings issues that challenge us as Christians to live out our faith. “We should
be different from the world around us – Christian distinctives should set us apart in how we live, think, act and speak.” The book targets difficult areas in our attitudes towards such things as: money; possessions; sexuality; contentment; relativism; and service.
The challenge is here…… “Something Else” crew – Will you dare to be different?
We then moved onto the life of Moses, the people of Israel and God’s attempt to catch their attention in making them, the people of Israel, a chosen nation that would bring glory to His name. In the life of Moses we have learnt that God doesn’t always call people who are excellent in everything they do. God does, however, call people who have difficulties in their lives, in their character; He calls those who have some sort of impediment. In Moses’ case it was his speech, in your case what is yours?
The study of the life of Moses and the journey of the people of Israel demonstrated to us that obedience is the first call in our lives. Also, we realised that we needed to get rid of the ‘Billy Graham syndrome.’ Do we all have to be great evangelists… full of amazing and apparent gifts??? NO! NO! NO! However, we MUST indeed obey God’s call and we MUST learn to be a community of believers who love God and live for God in our daily lives.
So, Something Else crew – Are you ready to obey God and be used by him? What are the impediments?
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
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