John's charge - "As You Go"

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:48:14 GMT

On Sunday, June 29th, John spoke to us about being locally effective and globally connected. Below is an excerpt from his sermon charging us to prayerfully consider how we can do just that.

“So here’s what I want to ask you to do. Pray for our city. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce…seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." Jeremiah 29:4-7 when the people of God were carried into exile in Babylon -- which was a very pagan, idol worshiping, corrupt city, yet God told them to integrate into mainstream life, and pray and seek peace and prosperity for that city. And God wants to bless our city, through his church. For this next month, as you go through your day pray, “God help me see people through your eyes, and help me demonstrate mercy and faith with your hands.” And as you do that, ask him to show us as a church the one thing we could focus on for the next few years to really bless our city. Maybe it's going after Child homelessness, maybe not. Maybe there's some other systemic evil that he will start to show all of us that we could all get excited about focusing on. We want you to post your thoughts as you pray about this one area of injustice we can all focus on as a church. Let's let our one prayer be, “God make us locally effective and show us how.” Let’s seek God’s guidance together, as a unified church, and pray that by the Fall it will be clear if there’s One Focus we should bring light to. Let’s all pray, listen, and blog.”

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