Icebreaker from Wednesday's Life Team at Kevin & Mary's. What song would you choose if you could only listen to 1 song for the rest of the week? Here they are with name, and a link to the tune:
-Fallon - From the Inside Out (Hillsong) http://tr.im/Ar1x
-Kevin - Summertime (The Fresh Prince) http://tr.im/Ar22
-Michelle - Think Twice (Eve 6) http://tr.im/Ar2B
-Ellie - What Do I Know of Holy (Addison Road) http://tr.im/Ar32
-Brittney - Until You (Dave Barnes) http://tr.im/Ar3l
-Sarah - How Deep the Father's Love For Us (Stuart Townend) http://tr.im/Ar48
-Chelsea - Fool That I Am (Adele) http://tr.im/Ar4O
-Mary - Arms of a Woman (Amos Lee) http://tr.im/Ar5h
-Alex D - Be Good To Yourself (Journey) http://tr.im/Ar5R
-Ashley - Skinny Love (Bon Iver) http://tr.im/Ar6F
-Ali - Drown (Chasen) http://tr.im/Ar79
-Heather - The Way You Look Tonight (Michael Buble) http://tr.im/Ar7J
-Andrew - I'm Confused (Handsome Furs) http://tr.im/Ar8k
-Stephen - The Trapeze Swinger (Iron & Wine) http://tr.im/Ar8Y
-Joe - Bile Them Cabbage Down (Andy G) http://tr.im/Araq
-Alex Kursave - How He Loves (David Crowder Band) http://tiny.cc/VqKgl
-Robin - Be Unto Your Name (Linda S) http://tiny.cc/LV4iK
-Sarah F - Hero (Skillet) http://tiny.cc/4OLYA
-Nathan - Empty With You (The Used) http://tiny.cc/qZwEY
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
9 CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
1. FOCUSING
a. Have the attention of ALL students
b. Don’t teach over chatter
2. DIRECT INSTRUCTION
a. Tell the students what the agenda is for the day
3. MONITORING
a. Move around in the classroom
b. Circulate
c. Make sure students are doing work and doing it correctly
4. MODELING
a. Values are caught, not taught
b. Do not yell. Speak in a soft voice
5. NON-VERBAL CUEING
a. Facial expressions, hand signals
b. Clapping 3x then have students do it back
c. Raise hand for silence; flip lights
6. LOW-PROFILE INTERVENTION
a. Don’t get in verbal confrontation with a student
b. Be quiet and calm (keep your cool)
7. ASSERTIVE DISCIPLINE
a. Good mix of praise
b. Rules are laid out and enforced
c. The teacher is the boss
8. ASSERTIVE I-MESSAGES
a. Statements that the teacher uses when confronting a student who is misbehaving
b. “I need you to do….”
9. HUMANISTIC I-MESSAGES
a. Expressions of our feelings
b. 3 part structure
i. “When you talk when I’m talking….”
ii. “……I have to stop my teaching……”
iii. “…….which frustrates me.”
[Via S. West, GCMS]
1. FOCUSING
a. Have the attention of ALL students
b. Don’t teach over chatter
2. DIRECT INSTRUCTION
a. Tell the students what the agenda is for the day
3. MONITORING
a. Move around in the classroom
b. Circulate
c. Make sure students are doing work and doing it correctly
4. MODELING
a. Values are caught, not taught
b. Do not yell. Speak in a soft voice
5. NON-VERBAL CUEING
a. Facial expressions, hand signals
b. Clapping 3x then have students do it back
c. Raise hand for silence; flip lights
6. LOW-PROFILE INTERVENTION
a. Don’t get in verbal confrontation with a student
b. Be quiet and calm (keep your cool)
7. ASSERTIVE DISCIPLINE
a. Good mix of praise
b. Rules are laid out and enforced
c. The teacher is the boss
8. ASSERTIVE I-MESSAGES
a. Statements that the teacher uses when confronting a student who is misbehaving
b. “I need you to do….”
9. HUMANISTIC I-MESSAGES
a. Expressions of our feelings
b. 3 part structure
i. “When you talk when I’m talking….”
ii. “……I have to stop my teaching……”
iii. “…….which frustrates me.”
[Via S. West, GCMS]
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
THE HOUSE pt. 1
The House pt. 1 ‘Open House’ – Matt Johnson
Exclusivity makes us feel special, but it is a bad thing for church.
DANGER: the longer we exist as a church, the easier it is for us to lose sight of what God has called us to do.
Acts 15: 1-20 1Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." 2This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 3The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad. 4When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
5Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses."
6The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? 11No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."
12The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. 14Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself. 15The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16" 'After this I will return
and rebuild David's fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things
18that have been known for ages.
19"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."
Jesus made it simple. Why would we want to make it difficult?
As a church, we should make it easy for people who want to follow God.
We want to complicate the God thing, in order to make it hard for outsiders to get in.
In the modern church, it is about what kind of music you like, how you dress, what political party you vote for, and agreeing with the pastor instead of being about Jesus.
We think God loves all people, not just church people.
Let’s not make it difficult for people who are turning to God.
Listen online: http://bit.ly/FKlTM
Visit the Journey online: http://theepicjourney.com and on twitter: http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Exclusivity makes us feel special, but it is a bad thing for church.
DANGER: the longer we exist as a church, the easier it is for us to lose sight of what God has called us to do.
Acts 15: 1-20 1Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." 2This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 3The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad. 4When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
5Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses."
6The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear? 11No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."
12The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. 14Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself. 15The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16" 'After this I will return
and rebuild David's fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things
18that have been known for ages.
19"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."
Jesus made it simple. Why would we want to make it difficult?
As a church, we should make it easy for people who want to follow God.
We want to complicate the God thing, in order to make it hard for outsiders to get in.
In the modern church, it is about what kind of music you like, how you dress, what political party you vote for, and agreeing with the pastor instead of being about Jesus.
We think God loves all people, not just church people.
Let’s not make it difficult for people who are turning to God.
Listen online: http://bit.ly/FKlTM
Visit the Journey online: http://theepicjourney.com and on twitter: http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Orange Code pt. 1
The Orange Code Pt. 1 Matt & Robert Johnson
Twitter: (@MattJohnson21 & @johnsonrn)
• Between 70-80 percent of college students walk away from their faith by the time they graduate.
FRAMEWORK: God designed the church and the family to work hand-in-hand. The church is a light; the family is a place that models God. The church is yellow, family love is red, and when the two work together it makes orange. We must figure out a way to make this happen.
• The church is not the primary spiritual influence in the lives of kids, parents are.
• Two combined influences always make a greater impact in a child’s life than just two influences alone.
• It all starts at the home
• There are no perfect parents! Not even in the Bible!
• Good News: God does not expect you to be a perfect parent!
o Even if you were perfect, it wouldn’t guarantee that your kids would be who you want them to be, let alone who God wants them to be.
• We all have a picture of what we want our kids to grow up to be.
• Deuteronomy 6:4-6 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
o Parents/families trust and obedience to God will not only have an impact on them, but on their children and grandchildren.
o The decisions parents make today will have a profound impact on the relationship their offspring will have with Christ.
o The greatest legacy is what you build in your children, not what you give to your children.
o Impress on your children the love and the character of God.
o Essential truth: Our God is God. It’s all about Him.
o It doesn’t matter what our kids know if they don’t know what really matters.
o If we don’t leave our kids with a love for God, nothing else really matters.
o The most valuable gift you can ever give your child is your love for God.
o If you don’t have a love for God, and model it day in and day out, your kids probably won’t either.
• What is your next step in living out Deut. 6:5 and showing your kid(s) that you love God with all your heart, soul, and strength?
Listen: http://bit.ly/BAjOV
Check the Journey out @ http://theepicjourney.com and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Twitter: (@MattJohnson21 & @johnsonrn)
• Between 70-80 percent of college students walk away from their faith by the time they graduate.
FRAMEWORK: God designed the church and the family to work hand-in-hand. The church is a light; the family is a place that models God. The church is yellow, family love is red, and when the two work together it makes orange. We must figure out a way to make this happen.
• The church is not the primary spiritual influence in the lives of kids, parents are.
• Two combined influences always make a greater impact in a child’s life than just two influences alone.
• It all starts at the home
• There are no perfect parents! Not even in the Bible!
• Good News: God does not expect you to be a perfect parent!
o Even if you were perfect, it wouldn’t guarantee that your kids would be who you want them to be, let alone who God wants them to be.
• We all have a picture of what we want our kids to grow up to be.
• Deuteronomy 6:4-6 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
o Parents/families trust and obedience to God will not only have an impact on them, but on their children and grandchildren.
o The decisions parents make today will have a profound impact on the relationship their offspring will have with Christ.
o The greatest legacy is what you build in your children, not what you give to your children.
o Impress on your children the love and the character of God.
o Essential truth: Our God is God. It’s all about Him.
o It doesn’t matter what our kids know if they don’t know what really matters.
o If we don’t leave our kids with a love for God, nothing else really matters.
o The most valuable gift you can ever give your child is your love for God.
o If you don’t have a love for God, and model it day in and day out, your kids probably won’t either.
• What is your next step in living out Deut. 6:5 and showing your kid(s) that you love God with all your heart, soul, and strength?
Listen: http://bit.ly/BAjOV
Check the Journey out @ http://theepicjourney.com and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Nicaragua Panel Discussion
July 26, 2009 the Journey – Nicaragua Panel Discussion
Featuring Matt Johnson, Loren Wilson, Alisha Temple, Kevin Swartz, Lisa and Elizabeth Whitt
In November when you first heard about LUO, what made you decide to choose get involved?
• Give kids food, shelter and education. As well as a Christ-based education.
• Put faith in Matt, knew the project was legitimate.
• The realization that only $200 could support a child for a whole year.
• Helps instill solid principles in our children over here.
What appealed to you about going down to Nicaragua? Did you have any concerns?
• Seeing the child that you sponsored. Getting people to sponsor you to raise the money to go.
• A little concern about safety and health.
• Having a 9 year old see how other 9 year olds around the world have to live. An experience that can never be taken away.
In general, what did you do while you were there, and how was it different than what you expected?
• Playing with kids in the dump. Visiting safe homes to play with kids.
• Go to know people, and meet their needs.
• Painted at homes and dumps; fixed things up.
• Took kids on little trips and hung out with the kids.
• Played in the pool with kids.
• Developed relationships with the kids.
• Played soccer with the kids.
• The school is the center of hope among despair.
• Moved things from old home to new home.
• Not a lot of expectations going into Nicaragua
First impressions?
• Animals are among the people digging through the dump.
• Overwhelming.
• You don’t know what to do.
• Surprised that the kids are happy at school, considering the horrific environments they live in.
• Hard to fathom until you see it.
Experience with the kids?
• Fun.
• Language barrier, but universal languages are play and music.
• Girls home created a bond and sense of community.
• The bus was kind of a party bus. Singing, playing, having fun.
• Developing one-on-one relationships with the kids. Found ways to communicate despite the language barrier. The kids loved us being there with them.
• The smiles continue to be on the kids’ faces because of what is being done to help them.
• It is amazing what a little attention and a little love can do.
• In 2 months time love, attention, and care can really make a huge difference in the lives of these kids.
Best experience:
• Kids falling asleep in your arms.
• Playing soccer in the dump.
• Watching Alex Kursave interact with the kids.
• Watching interaction with the kids with 9 year old Elizabeth Whitt.
• Bus rides! Music, running, no rules.
Experience with fellow Journeyers
• Everyone warmed up to each other and became so close.
• Everyone was willing to work together.
• Wonderful sense of community.
• Relationships that created a bond.
What did God teach you?
• Showed that we are really helping people.
• God’s love is universal.
• You can show love no matter what language you speak.
• Patience, slowing down.
• Learning to listen to God.
• Peace overcomes the clutter in our lives.
• We need to be more thankful for what we have.
• We need to be less selfish.
• Importance of relationships.
• Live is meant to be shared.
• God is working!
What would you say to people who haven’t gone?
• Drink water.
• Set aside your reservations, and trust God.
• Some people don’t want to go, but will be glad to give you money for you to go.
• It is safe, don’t worry.
• This is an opportunity to experience what God is doing in another country.
http://theepicjourney.com
http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Listen to the panel: http://tiny.cc/vBXJz
Featuring Matt Johnson, Loren Wilson, Alisha Temple, Kevin Swartz, Lisa and Elizabeth Whitt
In November when you first heard about LUO, what made you decide to choose get involved?
• Give kids food, shelter and education. As well as a Christ-based education.
• Put faith in Matt, knew the project was legitimate.
• The realization that only $200 could support a child for a whole year.
• Helps instill solid principles in our children over here.
What appealed to you about going down to Nicaragua? Did you have any concerns?
• Seeing the child that you sponsored. Getting people to sponsor you to raise the money to go.
• A little concern about safety and health.
• Having a 9 year old see how other 9 year olds around the world have to live. An experience that can never be taken away.
In general, what did you do while you were there, and how was it different than what you expected?
• Playing with kids in the dump. Visiting safe homes to play with kids.
• Go to know people, and meet their needs.
• Painted at homes and dumps; fixed things up.
• Took kids on little trips and hung out with the kids.
• Played in the pool with kids.
• Developed relationships with the kids.
• Played soccer with the kids.
• The school is the center of hope among despair.
• Moved things from old home to new home.
• Not a lot of expectations going into Nicaragua
First impressions?
• Animals are among the people digging through the dump.
• Overwhelming.
• You don’t know what to do.
• Surprised that the kids are happy at school, considering the horrific environments they live in.
• Hard to fathom until you see it.
Experience with the kids?
• Fun.
• Language barrier, but universal languages are play and music.
• Girls home created a bond and sense of community.
• The bus was kind of a party bus. Singing, playing, having fun.
• Developing one-on-one relationships with the kids. Found ways to communicate despite the language barrier. The kids loved us being there with them.
• The smiles continue to be on the kids’ faces because of what is being done to help them.
• It is amazing what a little attention and a little love can do.
• In 2 months time love, attention, and care can really make a huge difference in the lives of these kids.
Best experience:
• Kids falling asleep in your arms.
• Playing soccer in the dump.
• Watching Alex Kursave interact with the kids.
• Watching interaction with the kids with 9 year old Elizabeth Whitt.
• Bus rides! Music, running, no rules.
Experience with fellow Journeyers
• Everyone warmed up to each other and became so close.
• Everyone was willing to work together.
• Wonderful sense of community.
• Relationships that created a bond.
What did God teach you?
• Showed that we are really helping people.
• God’s love is universal.
• You can show love no matter what language you speak.
• Patience, slowing down.
• Learning to listen to God.
• Peace overcomes the clutter in our lives.
• We need to be more thankful for what we have.
• We need to be less selfish.
• Importance of relationships.
• Live is meant to be shared.
• God is working!
What would you say to people who haven’t gone?
• Drink water.
• Set aside your reservations, and trust God.
• Some people don’t want to go, but will be glad to give you money for you to go.
• It is safe, don’t worry.
• This is an opportunity to experience what God is doing in another country.
http://theepicjourney.com
http://twitter.com/theepicjourney
Listen to the panel: http://tiny.cc/vBXJz
Thursday, July 23, 2009
practical purposes of poo
Got this info from a video a friend of mine posted on Twitter. It is classic! And at the same time a pretty cool idea.
Watch the video: http://bit.ly/4GgEtP
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nrcave
A toilet made out of poop
• It has a pleasant softness to it
• It is really quite nice actually
Virginia Gardiner – Industrial Designer/Writer in London
She is developing a new waterless toilet system
In America we have a flush and forget mentality
• We love to flush the toilet
• We love to eliminate the contents of the toilet from our memory and experience as quickly as possible.
• Each flush uses one to three gallons of water.
• There are 2.6 billion people globally (40% of total population) who do not have a toilet.
She is trying to create a waterless toilet of the city that uses no energy and turns human waste into a commodity.
Compact Composting Toilet:
• She uses composting worms (worms compost things most quickly)
• Set up a wormory where she put feces on a regular basis to see how the worms would do turning it to soil.
• Poop transformed in just a few days and became invisible.
LooWatt System:
• Empty toilet with a cartridge
• Wheel the cartridge to a biodigester which produces gas
• Take the gas, and cook dinner with it
• Eat dinner, and you get really happy and you poo!
• Start process over
Our daily contribution to this planet which comes from our bodies is 2 pounds of excrement (combo of pee and poo)
Shouldn’t that excrement be put into a system where we can use it again in the most beneficial possible way?
Watch this video: http://bit.ly/4GgEtP
Watch the video: http://bit.ly/4GgEtP
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nrcave
A toilet made out of poop
• It has a pleasant softness to it
• It is really quite nice actually
Virginia Gardiner – Industrial Designer/Writer in London
She is developing a new waterless toilet system
In America we have a flush and forget mentality
• We love to flush the toilet
• We love to eliminate the contents of the toilet from our memory and experience as quickly as possible.
• Each flush uses one to three gallons of water.
• There are 2.6 billion people globally (40% of total population) who do not have a toilet.
She is trying to create a waterless toilet of the city that uses no energy and turns human waste into a commodity.
Compact Composting Toilet:
• She uses composting worms (worms compost things most quickly)
• Set up a wormory where she put feces on a regular basis to see how the worms would do turning it to soil.
• Poop transformed in just a few days and became invisible.
LooWatt System:
• Empty toilet with a cartridge
• Wheel the cartridge to a biodigester which produces gas
• Take the gas, and cook dinner with it
• Eat dinner, and you get really happy and you poo!
• Start process over
Our daily contribution to this planet which comes from our bodies is 2 pounds of excrement (combo of pee and poo)
Shouldn’t that excrement be put into a system where we can use it again in the most beneficial possible way?
Watch this video: http://bit.ly/4GgEtP
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
GO FISH PT. 3: GOD LOVED GOD GAVE WE BELIEVE WE RECEIVE
GO FISH pt. 3 “Muddy Water” – Matt Johnson http://theepicjourney.com *Follow Matt and the Journey on Twitter:
(http://twitter.com/MattJohnson21) (http://twitter.com/TheEpicJourney)
2 Questions:
1. What do you need to know to become a follower of Jesus?
2. What do you need to do to become a follower of Jesus?
John 3:16 ‘For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE His one and only son that whoever BELIEVES in Him will not perish (will not be separated from God for eternity) but have (RECEIVE) eternal life (a new life, a better life with God; Christ alive in you, the hope of glory)’
2 Answers:
1. God loved, God gave
2. We believe (trust) in, We receive
“God could have tweeted that”
God did not come to chastise you, He came to rescue you.
The Bible is the story of God loving and giving and people believing and receiving.
The message of salvation is that simple.
John 3:17 ‘For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.’
None of us are separated from God because of sin. There is a solution to your sin. It has already been taken care of on the cross.
Am I gonna respond and accept it? am I gonna trust in Him?
We need to live it out and lay it out.
We need to live our lives in such a way that people see the message of the gospel in us. In how we treat each other, how we relate to one another, and how we extend grace and truth all around us. They better not see a distortion of Christianity; they better see the message of Jesus loud and clear.
We have a responsibility to share that with them and explain that to them when opportunities arise. We don’t have to have all the answers. Just tell your story, and what you have experienced.
God loved. God gave. We believe. We receive.
As a church family here is the mission: let’s make sure that if people choose to reject Christianity that they are rejecting Jesus, not some distorted message of what He is all about. God loved God gave and they can believe and receive.
Listen to this wonderfully simplistic message right here: http://tr.im/t5e4
(http://twitter.com/MattJohnson21) (http://twitter.com/TheEpicJourney)
2 Questions:
1. What do you need to know to become a follower of Jesus?
2. What do you need to do to become a follower of Jesus?
John 3:16 ‘For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE His one and only son that whoever BELIEVES in Him will not perish (will not be separated from God for eternity) but have (RECEIVE) eternal life (a new life, a better life with God; Christ alive in you, the hope of glory)’
2 Answers:
1. God loved, God gave
2. We believe (trust) in, We receive
“God could have tweeted that”
God did not come to chastise you, He came to rescue you.
The Bible is the story of God loving and giving and people believing and receiving.
The message of salvation is that simple.
John 3:17 ‘For God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.’
None of us are separated from God because of sin. There is a solution to your sin. It has already been taken care of on the cross.
Am I gonna respond and accept it? am I gonna trust in Him?
We need to live it out and lay it out.
We need to live our lives in such a way that people see the message of the gospel in us. In how we treat each other, how we relate to one another, and how we extend grace and truth all around us. They better not see a distortion of Christianity; they better see the message of Jesus loud and clear.
We have a responsibility to share that with them and explain that to them when opportunities arise. We don’t have to have all the answers. Just tell your story, and what you have experienced.
God loved. God gave. We believe. We receive.
As a church family here is the mission: let’s make sure that if people choose to reject Christianity that they are rejecting Jesus, not some distorted message of what He is all about. God loved God gave and they can believe and receive.
Listen to this wonderfully simplistic message right here: http://tr.im/t5e4
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