Attempting to break through cultural barriers

It was great to see a whole lot of new faces all the way from Pta - welcome guys! They have all completed Mapping Point and started their journey with us to find their own role in the Kingdom.

Grant posted 2 topics for tonight because of their own involvement with a Zimbabwean family, starting to measure and implement the course material first hand. He said the urgency becomes real when you get actively involved.

We talked about why Satan seems to mainly manifest in the Yellow Road but is not seen openly in the Red Road. When trying to reach another culture by identifying with them, we face contextualisation as well as syncretism in a very real way.

The question was raised about praying for your food in a cross-cultural situation, eating food offered to idols and the necessity to distinguish between ritual & moral law. Can you tell what are the 2 New Testament ritual laws believers are commanded to obey?

If a rose is a rose and it reamins one even by any other name, is Allah God? Are we able to have a relationship with Allah? Who is the One and Only Creator God through your cultural lenses?

TURNING POINT

We had a great time fellowshipping on Saturday night once again. Lots of delicious food and conversation. The evening was started by everyone sharing what is going on in their lives at the moment. Very interesting as always. Sharing like this is good as iron sharpens and iron and hearing about another's journey, the ups and downs encourages one another. We are all at various stages in our journey of coming to the realization that God owns us and everything we have and our lives are not our own. The issue of laying down our lives to find out what He wants us to do and also to serve others is something that we are all examining and oh, how deep it goes.

We shared quite late into the evening so we didn't visit our topic for very long. We briefly touched on what Turning Point meant and how it is affecting our lives. It is definitely not just another course. This is a complete change of lifestyle. Passage to Purpose has the potential to ruin your life as you knew it. Or what you thought was YOUR life.

travelers tell all...

To see God's hand in the lives of people that attend the fellowship! It was really great to be a part of their travels. Hearing how God stepped in in many circumstances, how He held the Bates family in the palm of His hand during the five weeks they were in Viet Nam was extremely encouraging. We are thrilled to be on this journey with them. In fact we are thrilled to be involved in the lives around us. God is so good. He is so faithful. Thank you Llew, Jenni and kids for a wonderfully informative evening. To everyone who made their scouting trip possible, we thank you too.