I've been sending out emails re: Worship Invasion, happening 7:30pm on Saturday, May 27 at Broadway. Worship Invasion is organized by an independent group of individuals from various churches. It happens once a month at different locations throughout the Lower Mainland.
Do you want more? They describe themselves as "intense worship for youth, young adults, and the young at heart." More information is available on their website.
Do you want more? They describe themselves as "intense worship for youth, young adults, and the young at heart." More information is available on their website.
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Here is the list of "who we are" and "who we would like to be" that we produced last week at Convergence. Feel free to comment or email if you have any more thoughts:
What are we?
· Social
· Accepting
· Welcoming
· Diverse -- culturally & spiritually
· Genuine
· Fun
· Compassionate
What would we like to see on that list?
· Faithful & committed
· ***God-centered***
· Thirsty
· Challenging -- the Church (& the church?), ourselves, & each other
· Selfless & missional
· Participants in the Kingdom of God
· Social outlets -- perhaps missional social outlets?
What are we?
· Social
· Accepting
· Welcoming
· Diverse -- culturally & spiritually
· Genuine
· Fun
· Compassionate
What would we like to see on that list?
· Faithful & committed
· ***God-centered***
· Thirsty
· Challenging -- the Church (& the church?), ourselves, & each other
· Selfless & missional
· Participants in the Kingdom of God
· Social outlets -- perhaps missional social outlets?
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I was reading from the Burnside Writer's Collective this week and noticed their tagline:
"An alternative to franchise faith."
I like that.
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On Thursday Corrie briefly talked about the effect of secular dualism -- separating the physical from the spiritual -- on our understanding of reality. I was "having church" this weekend with some friends and we were reading a few portions from Psalms. As we read David's depictions of God I was absolutely amazed.
God was so real to David.
Not real as in "I believe God exists" but real to say "this is who He is." Furthermore, David did not simply define God based on "who he is to me" but who He is in a larger picture. We are often like children who say "that man is my Daddy" but cannot describe Him beyond His relationship to us.
I don't think that David would be at a loss when it came to the "adoration" part of our prayer time.
My friend Andrew said he is always struck that David wrote these Psalms before Jesus came: he was living under the old law, the promises had not yet been fulfilled, yet he was able to grasp who God is with such richness.
Is God reality to you?
Sometimes we need to sit down and think about it. God is constantly revealing more of Himself to us, like a curtain being drawn back from a spectacular view.
So, my question is: how would it read if you wrote a psalm about God?
posted by white girl at
4:14 PM
1 Comments:
wow, lotsa stuff there jamiekins! let's see, for starters, and this is kinda in there in a roundabout way, but i really think we need to have "growing" on that list of what we want to be. there seem to be a lot of people who are at convergence for the sociality of it, and in the last few years, there has been group growth, but i don't know if i see personal growth in a lot of individuals. satan likes to stop us in our tracks and prevent us from stepping up to battle. i know that i fall into this trap over and over again.
speaking of david, one thing i love about him is that when the entire army was unwilling (or unable) to do anything to defeat the phillistines, he stepped up, in faith, untrained and definately the underdog, and even with discouragement, he still walked right up to that giant and with the Lord's strength, not his own, took him down. and in doing that, they phillistine's lost the war! how many of us can say that we would have done the same? if we take a small step for God he can do the impossible through us!
our group of young adults has the potential to make a huge difference, in the church, in our community and in the world. andy tuplin said some good things today about hunger in the world, and paul asked him what we're going to do about it. i'd like to say take a look at andy's site folks (http://www.xanga.com/chublin) and let's ask the question, what will we as convergence do about this, and other things in the world that we talk about and pray about but remove from ourselves because they are so far from home.
i think that the lists in this post are great but we could add so much more to them. we need to be Jesus, to actually be Jesus in the world. this weekend, one thing that really hit me is that Jesus actually suffered, physically, emotionally, mentally, and he died, he actually died, the worst kind of death, so that i could have a relationships with him despite my sin. i'd like to have seen the devil's face as he was revelling in his victory, thinking that finally he had won, he'd tricked God into making a stupid mistake that cost him the game, and suddenly, Jesus is alive, and the sins of the world have been paid for IN FULL and satan must have screamed in the agony of the ultimate loss! let's take the power Jesus has given us, and say, "i'm willing to do whatever, and go wherever, you ask." let's make a difference!
(whoo. deep post rant breath!)
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