Meditations on Mission (Part IV)

Reflection 4: What is Mission? Mission is the activity of God's beloved people, declaring the praises of Him who has brought us out of the kingdom of darkness into his marvelous light!

 ⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV)

Meditations on Mission (Part III)

Reflection 3: Why do we do Mission? Because God has many people in this city!

 ⁹One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. ¹⁰For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city." ¹¹So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. (Acts 18: 9-11 NIV) [emphasis mine]

Meditations on Mission (Part II)

Reflection 2: How do we do mission? Knowing that our confidence is not in our own ability, but in God who works through us by His Spirit to bring life.

 4 Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-- not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2Cor 3:4-6 NIV)

Meditations on Mission (Part I)

Why do we do mission as the People of God? Last week we had a mission at church. Here are some meditations which I shared with my primary programme team at the start of each day.

Reflection 1: Why do mission? Because Salvation is found in JESUS alone.

'Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.' Acts 4:12

A new look for Robyn's blog

I'm not the only one who has changed the look and feel of his blog. My Wife gave her's a makeover. It looks completely different. And I have to say, that it looks great!!! But its not all about the look, the content is terrific as well. She even has April's Baby book. It's an encouragement to read. Find it here.

A new look...

Hi there, I haven't written in this thing for a while, and I decided to change it up, and give it a new look. I know it is simple, but the new templetes on blogger are looking nice. So here is the new look. Hopefully I'll get back to blogging soon with some more thoughts.

1 Peter 1:1

Today Robyn and I started our scheme of trying to remember a whole book, 1 verse at a time. We decided to start with 1 Peter.

Here is the first verse. I plan on adding each verse that we plan to memorise...

^1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,