GREENE STREET LETTERS: What A Weekend

Monday, March 16, 2009

What A Weekend

Monday Morning:
6:43 a.m.
Here at home trying to recap what all went on this weekend. It was fulfilling and God was gracious at every turn.

FRIDAY:
We went to Celebrate Recovery in Centre.
Donnie George had taken the weekend off and asked me to come and speak.
Donnie and I have this agreement that I am his backup for any reason. He calls when someone cancels and can't speak on the night they are suppose to. He calls when he wants to take a weekend off. It is a good arrangement for him and for me. Centre's Celebrate Recovery is a place where God gives me great grace to go and "do the stuff" as John Wimber would say.
There seems to be a lot of freedom when I go up there. Freedom not only to me but to the worship team, to those who are part of the ministry team and to the people who come. Ministry always seems to run longer than usual and no one minds.
Friday night was about meeting the real Jesus. Not the one we create in our minds or one we make up, but the real Jesus we read about in Scripture.
It was a good night.

SATURDAY:
We had a first at Rapha.
A double wedding.
Two former clients and their fiances' got married in the chapel and I got to do the weddings.
It was really tender and special to see this take place.
I love that chapel and it is kind of like a Winnebago.
It becomes whatever you need it to be.
Pull this out and shove this under that and low and behold, you've got a wedding chapel.
Spin this around and fold this up and over that and bingo....you've got a Saturday night service.
that ol' chapel has seen a lot and I wish that the walls could tell stories of all that has happened there.

SUNDAY:
I got to counsel a couple who are struggling in marriage.
That is all part of the growth.
Learning how to have less of me in this relationship and more of God.
I think they are going to be alright. They were willing to seek God and do the things that we discussed.
Pray for them that they would keep their hearts tender toward each other and allow God to work in them as individuals and in their marriage.

I came home yesterday, full and content that God was at work in everything He had placed before us.
He is a God worthy to be worshipped.

mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Monday, March 16, 2009

What A Weekend

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