Ten young adults just left my house. It's almost 11pm. There are lots of little tiny bits of colored tissue paper scattered aroung the floor, cups that are sticky with pop, popcorn smooshed on the floor, pieces of Doritos in places that I didn't know Dorito crumbs could get into, and stepped-on salsa drops.
But I LOVE this mess! Because with those 10 young people - our Metamorphosis small group - we had a GREAT talk about seeking God's will through prayer, and the importance of this in ministry (6 are in some sort of ministry!) and daily life. Why we don't seek God's will because the issue isn't all that important to us. And how we know that God's will is in our lives, especially to be like, for example... a missionary. Enrique asked that question - that how could I (and Justin and Phil, the other missionaries he knows!) just drop life in the US/Australia to move to Mexico. Enrique is the guy who introduced himself to us several months ago as, "I'm Enrique and I'm not a Christian." Non-Christians annonymous? hehe He asked about the passion needed to actually DO something like that - just dropping everything to go tell people in some other place about Christ. We were able to explain that that's what a deep relationship with Christ leads to - passion to follow and obey Him. Enrique now prays. With us, and about stuff like school stress and girls. He believes in God. But he hasn't taken the step to let Christ control his life and let Enrique NOT control his life. We keep praying for him!
Every now and then, we just have a really dynamic small-group time. This was definitely one of those. I want to remember conversations like this when I feel that I'm not involved in anything impacting! Beacuase I AM involved in impacts - God through me impacts the lives of others!
And, Yetzi, Cris, and I wanted to take a picture of our prayer time tonight - we divided into pairs (threes for us girls) to pray, and the guys all decided to pray together. So, picture 8 young, big guys all gathered around my small glass coffee table praying together. That's the picture that I would've put here.
And for that, I'll be smiling at 6:30 tomorrow morning when I start cleaning up this mess!
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
The Group That Teaches Itself
We've started having small groups (Metamorphosis) among the young adults here at Horizonte instead of a large group every week. Our large group time (Infusion) will instead be once a month, and we have, so far, one small group at my house on Tuesday nights, and another at the church on Saturday mornings. Attendence has been low so far, but we'll see how it goes...
Anyhow, last Tuesday was really interesting. We were only 5 people, but had an excellent time. I had prepared a lesson - which I HATE sitting there and "teaching," it seems boring - but I prepared one anyway. And we read the Bible passage for the week, and I looked at my page of points to talk about and questions. Then, the students began talking about the passage, and ended up touching on every point that I had learned out of the passage to talk about, plus a whole lot more! So, "teaching" went out the window, and we had a really great discussion about taking action and not just sitting around (the sick guy in the passage, who didn't have anyone to put him in the pool, did he even TRY to shimmy himself over to the pool and fall in when the water was stirred? And, imagine the FAITH that it would take to actually fall into the pool, hoping that you really would be healed upon touching the water, so you don't drown... that taking action requires FAITH. And another point about Jesus "disobeying" the Pharisees' skewed law about not picking up a mat on the Sabbath, and how we should obey God over our earthly authorities if they tell us to do things that are in opposition to what we know GOD wants us to do...) It was really a good time of learning together.
Tonight we'll meet again. I'm hoping for a few more people to come, but that with whoever comes we'll have an interactive time of learning from the Bible again!
I've been really bad about taking, and especially UPLOADING pictures recently... hence the lack of pictures in the past few posts... I'll do better soon!
Anyhow, last Tuesday was really interesting. We were only 5 people, but had an excellent time. I had prepared a lesson - which I HATE sitting there and "teaching," it seems boring - but I prepared one anyway. And we read the Bible passage for the week, and I looked at my page of points to talk about and questions. Then, the students began talking about the passage, and ended up touching on every point that I had learned out of the passage to talk about, plus a whole lot more! So, "teaching" went out the window, and we had a really great discussion about taking action and not just sitting around (the sick guy in the passage, who didn't have anyone to put him in the pool, did he even TRY to shimmy himself over to the pool and fall in when the water was stirred? And, imagine the FAITH that it would take to actually fall into the pool, hoping that you really would be healed upon touching the water, so you don't drown... that taking action requires FAITH. And another point about Jesus "disobeying" the Pharisees' skewed law about not picking up a mat on the Sabbath, and how we should obey God over our earthly authorities if they tell us to do things that are in opposition to what we know GOD wants us to do...) It was really a good time of learning together.
Tonight we'll meet again. I'm hoping for a few more people to come, but that with whoever comes we'll have an interactive time of learning from the Bible again!
I've been really bad about taking, and especially UPLOADING pictures recently... hence the lack of pictures in the past few posts... I'll do better soon!
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