MONEY AND MISSIONS - Sat 14 Feb

This was a great meeting. Pauline led us in worship and facilitated. She did a great job and came well prepared. Many interesting points were raised and discussed. I will touch briefly on a few of them. We once again came back to the Abrahamic covenant. God will bless us (like Abraham) so that all the nations of the earth will be blessed through us. Our western individualistic culture is such that we have been brought up to gather, store, save for a rain day etc, not to give it all away. The people of God were designed for each other and the kingdom of God advances through that. Missions is the very lifeblood of the church. As the physical body becomes weak without blood, so the church becomes weak without missions. Jean-Pierre challenged us to prove this. We must be able to back up what we preach. The more partners a missionary has, the more successful he will be. God designed this so that we can help each other and in so doing prepare His bride. Our power and authority comes from the Spirit of God, not from the world's financial system. The trading medium of the world is money and the trading medium of the kingdom is servanthood. We compiled a list of possible topics that we can discuss when Jean-Pierre and Rita are away. Contact Jenni should you be interested.