The meeting opened in prayer.
Mario did an excellent job at chairing the meeting to keep the flavor to output feedback, when asking each what significance was there in their past week. JP read glimpses out of Ansie’s last letter and we are all astounded at her accelerated growth in her daily, obligatory disciple-shipping activities. She asks whether, Jesus using parables, actually makes it easier or more difficult to understand what He meant to say?
One of the viewpoints about ‘my calling’ is that it is birthed out of a church system that is also responsible for all the other toxic faith issues, and therefore needs to be re-looked at, otherwise it is just again all about you and getting everything to work towards your perception. Be at the right place at the right time and allow God to use you. In laying down your life and expectations, God will work your calling for you. We can see that God, so to speak, goes out of Hs way to show each one of us, how uniquely He is able to make things happen, when you stick your neck out for Him.
Is it ok to serve another man’s vision in the mean time, when you don’t have a clear cut one yourself yet?
SERVANTHOOD
What is in it for me? Selfish (immature)
What is in it for them? Poor etc. (servant/childish-son)
What is in it for the Kingdom? God (partner/co-ruler)
Instead of having a ping-pong ball (shotgun) serving approach, focus on a couple of things and get behind someone that is already operating in the Kingdom. Remember the 4 ways we use to help us towards serving in the kingdom: (1) stay with a caravan of people going in the kingdom direction (2) put shoulder to the wheel (3) telescope vision (4) world view prayer life. Often your calling is only revealed when you are in servant hood and Kingdom driven.
It is very dangerous to follow your gifting. Your gifting will come out of your calling NOT for your calling to follow your gifting. In serving you can use your gifting but you don’t serve because of it. Kingdom has to drive servant hood, not gifting. The depth of your servant hood, can be indicative of how far you are willing to take it in the Kingdom.
The blue blocks (worldview) prioritise: 1st relationship, 2nd partner with God (where to serve, purpose, direction), 3rd find your resources with God. In order to adapt/adopt to an unfamiliar culture, tent making can be used for credibility/acceptance, to model/demonstrate, to identify at that time. Becoming all things to all men so that some might be saved, should be our attitude towards the mission field. However, it cannot work back toward the church the same way, because it compromises the mission’s sole purpose, to bring change back to the church in the first place
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