2009 Leaders' Planning Retreat
The Lord gave us 2 clear words guidance for the year 2009:
1. He wants us to help our people become responsive to Him. Jn 8:31
Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
We are to help them learn to hear from God and obey Him. So we now have a campaign for people in church to covenant with one another to follow a daily Bible reading guide, the Daily Bread digest.
2. He wants us to keep the territories we have won; expand them, and not lose ground.
Amos 1-2 shows several Gentile nations harassing Israel. These nations, actually, occupy the territory God promised to Joshua as Israel's inheritance (Josh 1:3-5). David and Solomon had already conquered these territories. But Israel lost ground because of her unfaithfulness to God.
So we held a leaders' retreat to work out practical steps in obeying the guidance the Lord gave us. Responsiveness to the Lord, passionate spirituality, and diligence in the kingdom of God has to begin with us, the leaders. So we covenanted to attend to "our ship's ballast" - to what is beneath the waterline (which God looks at), rather than on those things above the waterline (which people look at; things we tend to work on to impress people).
1. He wants us to help our people become responsive to Him. Jn 8:31
Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
We are to help them learn to hear from God and obey Him. So we now have a campaign for people in church to covenant with one another to follow a daily Bible reading guide, the Daily Bread digest.
2. He wants us to keep the territories we have won; expand them, and not lose ground.
Amos 1-2 shows several Gentile nations harassing Israel. These nations, actually, occupy the territory God promised to Joshua as Israel's inheritance (Josh 1:3-5). David and Solomon had already conquered these territories. But Israel lost ground because of her unfaithfulness to God.
So we held a leaders' retreat to work out practical steps in obeying the guidance the Lord gave us. Responsiveness to the Lord, passionate spirituality, and diligence in the kingdom of God has to begin with us, the leaders. So we covenanted to attend to "our ship's ballast" - to what is beneath the waterline (which God looks at), rather than on those things above the waterline (which people look at; things we tend to work on to impress people).
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