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Uber geek Matt Bradford wearing his seriously uber geektastic bluetooth mission control .. Houston we have a problem .. Rodger rodger one niner headset @ city church.
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What are you looking for in your church? If you go to a large church like I do it wont take you long to find someone who isnt happy with the way things are going in the church .. They feel left out and neglected .. They feel like outcasts. They are seeking the love of the people in the church they attend. But are they putting that love and acceptance of the people above there relationship with Jesus? A friend of mine asked me a serious question today .. “how do we keep people satisfied in church, to take their mind off them being fed, and to reach a hand out to those who need help themselves.” .. It was that question that inspired me to write this blog.
The question is not so much how to keep people satisfied in church so much as it is about how to get people to the point in there faith walks where they realize the following .. Salvation is not found in the church or its people. Salvation is ONLY found through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Once people begin to understand that and walk in it then church becomes less of a place of stress and acceptance and more of a place where they can relax and connect with God. Once they are relaxed and focusing on Him they are more likely to be able to walk in the flow of the Holy Spirit and then they will automatically start building the relationships they were previously to distracted from building.
The Bible does not say seek first the church and the acceptance of its people .. it says this .. “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – matt 6:33. God allowed me to place my faith in people and in return those people failed me time and time again .. but it wasn’t so much the people at fault .. it was more that I was looking for the perfect friendship when really .. that can only be found in Jesus. Once I realized that I should’ve been relying on Jesus first he then sent me people that I could rely on. Gods got a funny sense of humour like that. Sometimes he has to sit back and wait for us to be obedient before he can move. I’ve always told people how vitally important it is to maintain a solid personal and devoted relationship with Jesus but I wasnt applying it to one of the key areas of my life .. fellowship. If I am in true fellowship with Jesus everything else flows .. if we’re not in true fellowship with Jesus we tend to displace those deep inner desires for fellowship, love and salvation on people and not Jesus and it always leads to heart ache and bitter disappointment. But for some reason ever since I set foot in Australia I had been diverting my need for salvation onto people instead of Jesus.
I even dragged my wife out of the church we were called to be at in the desperate search for what was right in front of me the whole time.. JESUS! Rather then go into the ugly details I’ll skip to the chase and let you know that were back where we’re supposed to be and quite content.
So .. feeling invisable in your church? feeling unwanted or unloved? maybe they are legitimate feelings or maybe your displacing your need for salvation on people who are just trying to keep themselves a float much less be your saviour. Maybe just maybe Salvation is meant to be between you and Jesus and once you realize that you begin to develop and grow in your relationship with Jesus .. and in turn you begin to walk in the natural flow of the Holy Spirit and suddenly you start making friends and church becomes something you look forward to again. More to come! stay tuned.
i think i here customers!
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First Gen. Colin Powell a prominent republican announces hes backing Obama and then today the republican party gets some backing they probably werent interested in getting .. read article below ..
.. thats right good old Osama would much rather Obama then McCain in the oval office .. now .. I dont know what that says about the current state of the republican party .. but to me its the funniest bit of news to come out of this election.
Somehow I don’t think we’ll see Bin Laden on the campaign trail with McCain anytime soon .. but you know what they say .. “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” Just not sure this is what the republicans had in mind ROFL.
double shot latte @ cremosa
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Cremosa on Queen
Cremosa espresso bar on the corner of queen and wharf street in Brisbane .. One of my all time favorite cafe’s.
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Its kinda funny how often I am reminded that maintaining a day to day faith walk is a constant battle. Theres all this stuff going on back in Canada right now that really makes me just wanna jump on a plane tonight and go home for a few weeks. But more then that I really really need to get back to church .. havent been in a few weeks because of this flu which I am finally over.
My job still sucks but it is never the less a job and a fairly easy one at that .. it really is time to move on but that like everything else will happen in Gods timing and not mine. Gods funny like that .. you cant give your life to God and then every once in a while take the wheel back when you don’t like how things are going. Those are in fact the times when we need to trust God even more. There’s that word .. “trust” Its something God has been schooling me in ever since I stepped foot in Australia 8 years ago. But it really is all good.
If theres one thing I’ve learned lately .. its that it is vital to be in fellowship with solid Christians .. I am truely blessed to have a few really awesome friends in my life who really care about me. Anyway .. the moral of the story is .. never go to war without the right friends. Yes it sounds dark .. but life really is warfare .. a series of battles and victories and those weird inbetween moments between the battles and victories .. Yah ever get the feeling someones trying to take you out .. I do .. all the time .. Its a good thing I know who my God is.
Peace out for now.. and my apologies for this “random” blog being so ultra serious .. its just the way it came out .. lol.
Ok .. I’ve seen some funny facebook status updates lately and my friend Mike Mann inspired me to do this new monthly segment entitled “Facebook status update of the month” .. And even though were not all the way through September I have found my first entry and it comes from Mikey Mann’s facebook. Here it is …
“Would never get a loan from “Fanny May” or “Freddie Mac” … but I’d buy cookies from them”
LOL .. classic! and a very worthy first entry for this segment of mine.
For the past few days the new “quad stacker burger” from burger king aka hungry jacks here in Australia has been all over the media. I’ll skip all the trash talk and give you the new name I have come up with for this burger.
I am calling this burger “The HD burger” because it has 1080 calories. If thats not High Definition I dont know what is .. lol .. so there you go .. the worlds first HD burger!
Better hit the gym.
