The Harvest!
Wow. That's all I can say. God has done so much. 20 woman came to dinner before CRU and almost 15 actually came to Cru....girls all over the dorm walk by and say, "hey, I'm comin to Shine next week." This is God's power. This is the power of prayer revealed. This is His will- that ALL might know Him.
Famous Daves' (my new place of employment) is going to be quite the place to minister to. Jeremy and I are excited to show Christ's character - That is a prayer request for sure.
On a more personal note, I've been getting real stressed out lately from school. I have a tough semester with Business courses and I'm letting it get to me. I was reading Matthew 6 today, and that is an AWESOME chapter. The KJV talks about praying in "thy closet" ...getting ALONE with Him...and entering prayer to experience true communion with Him- that's where my hope, peace and eternal perspective is derived from. Also, Chambers writes, "It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer." I cannot serve two masters. I cannot serve God and School. Surrender time- "Seek first the kingdom and the rest will be given unto you." Pastor Tommy always told me, fall in love with God and the rest will fall into place. It's almost scary how true that is. Complexity immediately sheds its layers and becomes simplicity- THANK YOU JESUS!
QUESTION TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WRITE A COMMENT: What's the best way to minister to the gay population?
Wow. That's all I can say. God has done so much. 20 woman came to dinner before CRU and almost 15 actually came to Cru....girls all over the dorm walk by and say, "hey, I'm comin to Shine next week." This is God's power. This is the power of prayer revealed. This is His will- that ALL might know Him.
Famous Daves' (my new place of employment) is going to be quite the place to minister to. Jeremy and I are excited to show Christ's character - That is a prayer request for sure.
On a more personal note, I've been getting real stressed out lately from school. I have a tough semester with Business courses and I'm letting it get to me. I was reading Matthew 6 today, and that is an AWESOME chapter. The KJV talks about praying in "thy closet" ...getting ALONE with Him...and entering prayer to experience true communion with Him- that's where my hope, peace and eternal perspective is derived from. Also, Chambers writes, "It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer." I cannot serve two masters. I cannot serve God and School. Surrender time- "Seek first the kingdom and the rest will be given unto you." Pastor Tommy always told me, fall in love with God and the rest will fall into place. It's almost scary how true that is. Complexity immediately sheds its layers and becomes simplicity- THANK YOU JESUS!
QUESTION TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WRITE A COMMENT: What's the best way to minister to the gay population?
posted by Kate at 10:15 PM
3 Comments:
hey kate. what i've learned from shawn and his boyfriends is simple: live my life as a Christian in their presence. this necessarily mean speaking to them about God, just living for Him. and knowing you as i do, i know that you mention Him in conversation often and that it's not this calculated thing where you're attempting to bring up the subject or show the other person that you're 'better' than them because of your faith...and that really does show to those that you're talking to. what it comes down to is loving them and earning the right to have an opinion about their lives. show them that you can be trusted and they will care enough about you to listen to what you have to say.
kare bear
How do we minister to the gay community??? Interesting question. I think the first thing Christians need to do is not treat them like the Pharisees treated the "unclean" or people with lyprosy. Gays, although sinful, are no worst of than any other sinner who does not know Christ. We need to stop ganging up on them and trying to force them to become righteous, but we should love them and allow God change them so they become righteous. What do Christians think they can do through hate? When are we going to come out of our comfort zones and take a step of faith into vulnerability and allow God to catch us and finally use us. The bottom line is we need to start loving and stop hating. God attracts us by His love, we change (and want to change) because of His love. What good has ever come from hate. Even when God killed people in the Old Testament it was because of His love. The greatest commandement. Need I say more? We must love gays with Christs love, not agreeing with what they do, but being faithful to Jesus, and then, and only then, will lives change.
apologize to them for the way they may have been treated by well meaning but mislead Christian brothers and sisters. then... seek to serve them in an extravagant way. If this means going to your gay-straight alliance meetings and setting up chairs or simply helping out with functions in the areas that no one else likes to help out in... then so be it. do not support the actions or belief structures of the gay culture, but let them know how much you do love them and work hard to befriend them. Christ's Grace is incredibly unfamiliar, and irrresistable. gays need to know that they are not on a different level from the rest of humanity.
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