What a week... Even though we had a lot of people out for Thanksgiving this last Sunday we still had an awesome week with one person surrendering to Christ!  We also had an awesome time at our last 2540 last night.  It was extremely cold... or so I was told - I got to spend most of the night next to the grill!  We almost got ran off by the police because they were having Christmas festival across the street from where we usually set up, but they told us we could cross the bridge and set up closer to Knox Area Rescue Mission.  It amazes me how we try to sweep all of our brokenness under the rug as individuals and even as a city - I know they were 'just doing their job', but the fact is that they didn't want homeless people ruining the X-mas wonder land.  I use 'X' because I am not sure if Christ was in it, we found him on the other side of the bridge.  Despite that road block we had a great time fellowshipping with each other and people who would have otherwise went to bed hungry.  

I wanted to pass this along to everyone to remind you that God is still King and never ceases to amaze me.  He is working through His people... all the time!  He doesn't need us, but he chooses us.  It's not like he couldn't redeem the whole world in the blink of an eye if he so chose, but for some reason he has placed so much value on us that he chose us to be his co-laborers in redemption.  That freakin blows my mind!  Whether or not your neighbor hears about Christ is ultimately dependant upon your willingness to be used.  Are you ready?  The worst thing that we can do in this world is not fail, but succeed at things that don't really matter.  So don't be comfortable with Bible studies, having good grades, or securing a good job - live passionately towards the goal that God has placed before you - to look more like Christ.  And Christ did two things primarily - loved the Father and shared His love extravagantly.   

 

 

PS - one more cool thing - check out the new song by The Remedy band... Revolution

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A good friends of mine, Todd Adams, called me a while back to see if I could co-host a workshop with him at our conference's upcoming young adult retreat, Divine Rhythm.  We decided to focus on the topic of the missional church.  We quickly began to realize that many of our UMC's might not exactly be missional.  Now, just like 'postmodernism' has been defined in a million and one different ways, so has the 'missional church'.  So we are starting with a operating definition of the missional church as outwards focused (that's the nutshell version).  So we started asking, how can we motivate the young adults in our conference to start reviving their churches?  The first step in this experiment is a website that we hope will be a hub for young adults seeking to turn the UMC on its head with a revolutionary outward focused love that seeks the least the last and the lost.  So check it out:  www.missionalumc.com  And visit back there often as we will be blogging, posting resources and videos, and attempting to light a fire under the young adults of our conference.

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