Guidance

Guidance is the disciple we are studying as we begin our last full day in Battambang.

If the body of Christ submitted to one another praying for the best for one another, we would be able to see how God intended for us to live as one body.   The U.S. struggles with submission to the body of Christ.

I Corinthinas 12:12-26. We came to Cambodia and our world back home continued just fine without us - every member is equally important.

Romans 12:3-5...what The Lord has assigned to you...

"No one can hear the entire will of God in Isolation from one another in the body of Christ". If we sat on one side of a circle and looked at something in the middle our perspective would be completely different than someone on the other side of the circle.  Just because someone else's perspective is different it doesn't make the other person's perspective wrong.  We will never have a total understanding of the central object unless we value the persons' description "perspective" about what they see.

When the body of Christ sends you, the encouraging support will continue.

A great devotional explaining our differences and the desperate need to live in submission to one another!

being lead

I think the thing I enjoyed the most at the Gateway Worship Conference was 'being lead' instead of leading.

I'm sure all of you can relate - leading everyday at work, or leading your family, or leading special events gets draining even when you don't realize it.  You are so continuously in the middle of planning, executing, correcting mistakes that you don't really experience the spiritual part of the service or event unless you're very, very intentional about forcing yourself to step away and 'take it in'.

I got to sit....and absorb... and take in without any distraction - but then immediately began praying for God to reveal anything He wants to change

I want to challenge each of you reading this to understand that coming to church is not about 'what you can get'  but what you do with 'what you take in'.  As a believer of Christ Jesus we gather together in order to learn and leave with teaching to APPLY and to CHANGE our lives.  And then learning what you can do to contribute to the body of Christ with your gifts and talents.  I don't think church was ever supposed to be about what you can get.

I want to live that way - working all week to prepare, coming on the weekend to learn and be with my brothers and sisters in Christ! Serving and glorifying our precious Lord!

Please - join me!!