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")
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