Yay I can post WKC stuff now! Here is what I learned:
- Turn to God in hard times. We can use our difficulties to help others. Serve others - be compassionate. We share in Christ's suffering - that is a great privilege. We will be perfectly restored in Heaven.
- We have a fantastic message. We should want to share it. It is an urgent message. It affects everyone for eternity. It is a life saving message.
- Give glory to God because he is the one who does the work. All people are mission impossible but it is possible with Christ. Pray hard because prayer is powerful. God wants all people to know him.
- God changes people, don't give up. We need to trust that God has a greater plan to shape us into a beautiful diomond. We are not no. 1, God is. We need to acknowledge and accept it. God has a grand plan and we are part of it.
- God loves us, so we should love our fellow christians. Build them up by prayer, fellowship, love and generosity.
- We don't know how God works. Be bold - we never know how people will be changed. you have opportunities to share all day everyday.
It all makes perfect sense to me but if you have questions feel free to ask! (you know when you write something and you give it to someone and they have no idea what you are writing about... it's like that! do you get me? lol!)
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
Sunday, September 11, 2005
the Answer!
Wow I got quite a big response to my last blog... people asking me what I worked out about the purpose of marriage... well... here is my answer.... I'm not really sure... but I think it would be cool to meet up and kinda have a discussion and read what the bible says about marriage.
I haven't really been able to think about it much recently because I just came from wkc which stands for Women's Katoomba Convention. It was really great. There were like over 1000 women in a huge tin shed singing and praising God and reading the bible and growing together which is really cool. At first it was really weird singing "And can it be" with no guys to sing the low parts... but it still sounded nice.
I learned so much! And the ironic thing is that I really want to share it with you all now but some of you will be going to WKC next week so I don't wanna spoil it for you. If you aren't going next week... call WKC!!! (www.kcc.org.au). I heard they still have tickets (and some beds) for it. [btw WKC is a christian womens conference where all these women go to katoomba for the weekend and hear God's word being preached by really cool ladies and... oh man it's just all good! If you haven't noticed I really love Katoomba and I plan to live there for a period of my life... or holiday there a lot. It just has this cool vibe and I feel like I can really get away from technology and just sit and study the bible and pray to God. WOOT!]
So I will post next week what I learned. Because we learned the best message that you could ever learn... and you all deserve to know it! Oh gosh I can't help myself:
We need to be reconciled to God. By ourselves... this is impossible! But God sent Jesus to die for us. When we admit our sins and believe in this... God forgives us! We become reconciled to God! God gives us life! We become a new creation... and will be fully restored in heaven. God is so loving and so great!
I haven't really been able to think about it much recently because I just came from wkc which stands for Women's Katoomba Convention. It was really great. There were like over 1000 women in a huge tin shed singing and praising God and reading the bible and growing together which is really cool. At first it was really weird singing "And can it be" with no guys to sing the low parts... but it still sounded nice.
I learned so much! And the ironic thing is that I really want to share it with you all now but some of you will be going to WKC next week so I don't wanna spoil it for you. If you aren't going next week... call WKC!!! (www.kcc.org.au). I heard they still have tickets (and some beds) for it. [btw WKC is a christian womens conference where all these women go to katoomba for the weekend and hear God's word being preached by really cool ladies and... oh man it's just all good! If you haven't noticed I really love Katoomba and I plan to live there for a period of my life... or holiday there a lot. It just has this cool vibe and I feel like I can really get away from technology and just sit and study the bible and pray to God. WOOT!]
So I will post next week what I learned. Because we learned the best message that you could ever learn... and you all deserve to know it! Oh gosh I can't help myself:
We need to be reconciled to God. By ourselves... this is impossible! But God sent Jesus to die for us. When we admit our sins and believe in this... God forgives us! We become reconciled to God! God gives us life! We become a new creation... and will be fully restored in heaven. God is so loving and so great!
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort" - 2 Corinthians 1:3
"Whom have I in heaven but you? And being with you there is nothing I desire on earth. My flesh and my heart fail: But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever" - Psalm 73:25
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21
From Car-O-Line
Monday, September 05, 2005
dating, marriage and divorce.
I just came back from bible study. We were looking at Mark 10:1-12. I think I really needed this bible study. The passage is titled 'divorce' but as my old bible study leader told me... don't take notice of the headings. And it's a good thing too! Otherwise you would all be thinking that I'm interested in divorcing someone which is even weirder since I'm not even married.
What we looked at were the concerns of the people (in this case disciples and pharasees) and also the concerns of Jesus. What the people were interested in when they asked "is it ok to divorce" (paraphrase), was what the law said and how much they can get away with while still following the law. But Jesus looks at the heart... and tries to get them to think about the underlying purpose of marriage. Sometimes when we read the bible we think... "oh it doesn't say we can't do that in the bible so it must be ok to do it." But what is our motivation when we say things like this... we are trying to live our lives our own way while still trying to keep the 'law.' God is interested in our hearts and he wants us to have the same motivation as him when we do things. It brought up tough questions like 'why do we date?' and 'why do we get married... how does this fit into God's original intended plan?' Like I've read stuff about marriage and how it's about love and stuff and that God made man and woman to be companions, etc... but I can't help but think that it's a lot deeper than that... lol I'm prolly too young to understand!
from Car-O-Line
What we looked at were the concerns of the people (in this case disciples and pharasees) and also the concerns of Jesus. What the people were interested in when they asked "is it ok to divorce" (paraphrase), was what the law said and how much they can get away with while still following the law. But Jesus looks at the heart... and tries to get them to think about the underlying purpose of marriage. Sometimes when we read the bible we think... "oh it doesn't say we can't do that in the bible so it must be ok to do it." But what is our motivation when we say things like this... we are trying to live our lives our own way while still trying to keep the 'law.' God is interested in our hearts and he wants us to have the same motivation as him when we do things. It brought up tough questions like 'why do we date?' and 'why do we get married... how does this fit into God's original intended plan?' Like I've read stuff about marriage and how it's about love and stuff and that God made man and woman to be companions, etc... but I can't help but think that it's a lot deeper than that... lol I'm prolly too young to understand!
from Car-O-Line
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