Just a glimpse into some conversations
Had a great conversation with
a Punjabi Sikh female shuttle driver. She gave me a hug with tears in
her eyes before we parted, thanking me for encouraging her. We'll see if
she gets in touch again.
Spoke at length with a Jewish
woman whose husband is serving in Afghanistan. She asked me how to
pray. We're continuing the conversation by email.
Shared a table in a crowded
restaurant with a Japanese woman and ended up talking about discipling
her daughter and living biblically in the tension of a post-Christian
social order.
Met and prayed with a Chinese
woman who leads a Christian television ministry. She was encouraged to
meet another woman in ministry outside the church. We've since emailed
each other as well.
Conversations are a theme of
my life and ministry. I never know where the conversations may go, but I
know Jesus is a participant in each one. To have initial contact, and
then receive a follow-up email is amazing!
Thank you for praying for me
as I live and love and serve and am open to any conversation with
anyone. Only God can prepare and equip me for this. It's too
unpredictable for me to think I'm adequate without Him.
Fragmented bits don't always make a whole: how we view God
Teaching tonight in FaithLIFT Week 3.
Understanding the character & nature of God matters
because...
Who He is determines:
- How we relate
- What we expect
-How we interpret His
Word.
Who we say/think/feel/know God is will determine much in how
we live, read and understand Scripture, and in how we grow in our faith.
In tragedy we hear people say, “Where are you, God?”
The more reasonable and helpful question might be “Who are
you, God?”
God’s character, what He’s like and what we can
expect from Him will make a huge difference in how we pray, how we respond to
tragedy, how we worship, and how we embrace the future, including eternity.
Our expectations must sync with His character and
nature, or we have a recipe for
disappointment and a real crisis of belief.
It's one thing to tell the Gospel to someone who has never
heard it before.
It's another thing to sift through the fragments of a
person's faith and understand where it all came unstuck.... so as to help them
reassemble the bits worth keeping.
