“Teach me the rules…….. I’ll show you how to break them!”
Monthly Archives: September 2009
“HOW YOU CAN HELP CHURCHES GROW”
I picked up the “baptist” today, the “magazine of the baptist churches of new zealand.” A brochure and an envelope fell to the floor. They were apparently hidden inside the paper.
The big envelope was obviously for money.
But I was immediately interested in the little brochure. Why? Because on the cover was written in big fancy letters: “How you can help churches grow.” I am surely interested in the growth of churches. “Growing Healthy Churches” is written on the frontcover of the “baptist”.
When I looked closer at the brochure, I was disappointed. It was all about money. It was a brochure of the NZ Baptist Savings & Development Society Inc. (BSDS)
I mulled all this over and eventually picked up a book written by an evangelist who is very much interested in church growth and is an elder of a church that is growing and growing.
Money is not even mentioned in the book!
HE SAYS THAT A CHURCH CAN ONLY GROW IF THE SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF THE CHURCH IS CALLED BY GOD!
Mission and the Church
“Take mission off the table and the church becomes terminal”
Terry Calkin Senior Pastor, Greenlane Christian Centre
Where do you want to go?
VIOLENCE
This was the headline in one of the newspapers here in the north of New Zealand recently: “Judge: We’re sick of violence.”
Type violence into search in read more!
“The Law is Changing!”
“The law is changing!” I am reading that announcement on a big poster. The poster is standing inside the local Vodafone place here in Kaitaia. From the first of November this year it is forbidden to use mobile phones while driving a car. The fine is $80.00 and 20 demerit points.
“The law is changing!” We must take notice of that. At least I know now that the law of a country can change. Does that happen quite often?
But I know also that the law of the Lord does not change. It says in Psalm 19:7 “The law of the Lord is perfect,……..” The law of the Lord is “excellent in all respects.”
Do you remember the ten commandments? Do you know them off by heart? I had to learn them off by heart when I was young.
The ten commandments are recorded in Exodus chapter twenty and Deuteronomy chapter 5. To be exact Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21.
In Deuteronomy 5:17 it says: “You shall not murder.”
“You shall not commit adultery.” Deuteronomy 5:18
“You shall not steal.” Deuteronomy 5:19
In Psalm 119:142 it says that the law of the Lord is true and in the same Psalm in verse 164 we read: “Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws.” Psalm 119:164
Footprints!
God Creates……
