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What does it look like?

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I need your help. On October 4, I have the opportunity to share with the Southwest Hills Community Church family what it looks like when:
A husband serves his wife, his son, his daughter
A wife serves her husband, her son, her daughter
A son serves his father, his mother, his sister, his brother
A daughter serves her father, her mother, her sister, her brother.
What does it look like when family loves and serves family?

What do you think?
I am asking for your help to prepare for this message. What are examples, scripture, action steps, etc?

The home is an incubator, a greenhouse, a launching pad, and a sanctuary. The home is a laboratory, an experimental station, and an education institution. How people in the home interact determines what the world outside that home will learn. As family, what are we teaching the world by the way we live inside the home?



Please post your responses or email me.


Thanks for your help. I'll give a link to listen to the message after Oct. 4.


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I love the movie Patch Adams. In the beginning of the movie Patch is in a mental hospital. He encounters another patient (Author Mendelson) who constantly walks around holding up four fingers, asking the question, "How many fingers do you see?" When someone replies, "Four," he laughs and walks away. One evening Patch decides to ask Author what is the correct answer. Author holds up four fingers and asks the question:

Arthur Mendelson: How many fingers do you see?
Hunter Patch Adams: Four.
Arthur Mendelson: No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell me how many you see.

Arthur Mendelson: You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!


At that moment Patch looks beyond the fingers to Author who knows the answer. Then, you see. Because Patch's focus changes, the four fingers blur and it appears as though there are eight. "How many fingers do you see now?"
"Eight."


Too often we focus on the problem and God is wanting us to look beyond the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. It is only when we seek His face that we can begin to see a solution. Learn to look beyond the problem.

The next quote from Author is incredible. See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

The invitation is there from God. See the world anew each day! Everyday should be fresh. God is at work it is just a question of will you choose to see it.

I Want a Different God pt.2

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I assume and presume things about God all the time. I think I have God figured out sometimes. I live my life in a way that says I know what He's going to do or what He should do. How many times have a made commitments on God's behalf when He has not indicated that He would do that thing?

It's like the girl who says, "I know he's not a Christian and we share different values and we don't have much in common, but once we get serious, I'll just start praying that he will start to follow God. Wouldn't God answer that prayer?"
Or it's the guy who doesn't study for his algebra test and goes to school and says, "Now, God, my mom and dad said You answer prayer. You don't want me to flunk out. You want me to make something of myself, and besides, it would be a bad testimony if I flunk my test."

That's not faith; it's presumption. Then when God doesn't come through, or a miracle doesn't happen, everybody's mad at God. God's going, "It wasn't even My idea."


My problem is that when I assume or presume things about God, then in my mind and heart, God has become predictable, the same, boring. I WANT A DIFFERENT GOD! A God I can't guess what He'll do next, or how He'll do it. I want a god I can't manipulate or work or trick. Now, I have to live a life that reflects that god, my God, the God of creation - GOD.



What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. ~ Tozer



I Want a Different God

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Yesterday we sang "Unchanging"

So we raise up holy hands
To praise the Holy One
Who was and is and is to come
Yeah we raise up holy hands
To praise the Holy One
Who was and is and is to come

In one thought, this if very true. I believe that Tomlin was write in this that God is unchanging in His promises and His faithfulness, in His grace.

But has God changed? He is a God of change - He changes lives - He changes futures - He changes destinations. He is change. To say He was and is and is to come can only apply to certain aspects of Him.

My fear is that too many of us Christians have tried to live as though He was and is and is to come in a way that mean God is predictable - this idea that if I do this then He will do that. Too often people who fill the church think they have the formula figured out. No one would admit that but our lives show it.

God is not the same! The God of the Bible is full of surprises. Split the waters, walk on the water, turn the water into wine, make a donkey talk, time stand still, throw your nets on the other side, "What? Your ear got cut off? Let me fix that for you", creator being created, giver of life being killed. Who knows what He'll do next?!!!

Yet, we want Him to be the same. I don't want same god, boring god, predictable god. I want GOD! One cannot follow this God very long and stay comfortable.

His character is the same but His method is anything but...
Tomorrow I expect to see something new from God. The day after that I expect to see something new from God. And so on. I do know part of Him but not Him fully so why would expect to see the same thing from Him. Don't limit God because you have a glimpse.

Maybe the truth is more that God is not changing, we just simply have not seen all of Him so there is always new things to be revealed. The sad part is that some have quit looking for something new or different from Him. Once that happens, we cease to make bold moves for God. We simply sit and wait for His return. What a wasted life.

EXPECT great things from God
- ATTEMPT great things for God ~ William Carey

Making a Choice

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My family and I have been in Austin for about 6 weeks now and everyone ask "How do we like it?" WE LOVE IT! Austin is an incredible town and the church is real. It is a great fit for us and a great fit for me in ministry. Too many details to go into at this point but there are a lot of God-size things happening in my life and my family's life right now.

So, how did we know this is where we were suppose to be? It would be easy to answer if this were the only church that offered me a "job" and we took it to pay bills OR if this was the first church that came along OR all the other churches that I talked with were loser churches that I wanted nothing to do with BUT that was not the case. I was contacted by or I contacted close to 70 churches, many of which were great, healthy churches. There were several churches that we talked with that I thought had great possibilities only to receive the "you suck" letter or email from them a couple of weeks letter. When we visited Southwest Hills, we knew this why we left Mt.Vernon and we knew this is why we had waited 9 months. We knew God's plan for us to come to Austin.

Was is a GREAT VOICE speaking to us? Writing on the wall? A peaceful, easy feeling? What was "IT" that let us know that we were headed to the great state of Texas? Even after we interviewed with SHCC, they still had two more candidates to bring in and we had to wait six more weeks - but Cassie and I knew. How? How do you explain "knowing God's specific plan" for our lives?

Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Cassie and I lived this verse faithfully for 9 months. Please understand this not a boastful statement. This is a testimony to say God is who He is! Cassie and I, before leaving Mt.Vernon, committed to each other and to God to delight ourselves in Him and allow Him to create our desires. What an incredible 9 months!!! In a time that should have been chaotic with having no job, living with my parents, and unsure where we would land, in the middle of what can be defined as chaos - there was peace. In circumstances that could create division between me and Cassie and division between us and God, we grew closer and stronger. Why? Because God is who He says He is. Because God initiated this trust thing by letting us know what He would do if we would delight ourselves in Him, we trusted Him to create those delights in us. Because we trusted Him and delighted ourselves in Him, we could trust our feelings and dreams because He was the one placing the dreams and feelings and thoughts in our hearts and heads.

My prayer is that we continue to live our lives today as we have lived the past 9 months - in faith. It seems so simplistic. God is God! Now live a life that shows you believe it.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one. ~ Tozer


The Most Important Thing

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Brad Pitt gave a revealing interview to Bild, a German magazine, in which he revealed that he didn't believe in God.

The reporter first asked if he believed in God.

"No, no, no!" Pitt said.

Next he asked if the actor's soul was spiritual, and Pitt replied, "No, no, no! I'm probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it."

I know there are a lot of people who share this view when it comes to spiritual things. Unfortunately, many people rather not think about God and who He is or is not. It is alarming to me to hear people respond this way because I know they are headed for a great awakening. But also concerning is the hopelessness that must go with that. The nagging, at times aching, numbness that accompanies one who has chosen not to search for truth. I think of one like Mr. Pitt (I am a fan of his acting) who has settle for life as it is because he seems to have found a purpose - but not THE purpose. If one chooses not to even think about God, can one truly know who they are or who they are to become?

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. ~ Tozer




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