Dear Friends,
When is the last time you looked at your bulletin, it says, at front top
International Christian Centre
“Connecting People to God and each other
“Challenging Believers to Christ-likeness
Challenging the world”
Well Ladies and Gentlmen, hows that compared with the topic we had this Sunday? Its time we all began to reallt truely take the mission statement of ICC to heart and change the world to Christ-likeness. In my personal opinion, Pastor Chip and Co. pass that message to us each Sunday, Tuesday and the whole of last week (Prayer Week) in different messages.
Its our turn church!!! its our turn to hang our “Going to church to listen” Boots and wear our “Go out and spread the word” Boots. Do you all agree with me? if you do show your solidarity by adding a comming to this weblog that reflects your Gospel spreadiong ambition. Remember that your comments will be read by many people even those in the diaspora thus will assist greatly in spreading the word.
Ok… Off we Go To Sunday
We had a visiting team from ‘NCC’ in DC.. National Community Church in Washington DC.
Thier rep, Heather, Told of how they dont have any real church building as such but meet in 2 different movie theateres and in one large coffee house. Well Coffee house sounded rather alarming for most Kenyan’s but to the Americans, its a lovely place to meet because according to Heather…
“Church is not a building, but a group of people connected by a commmon experience and a common goal in christ…”
And ICC is also soon going to be a multi campus church. Well Pastor Chip calls it a Dual Campus but I want to look at the alredy exsisting one as dual campus since the frontrunnerz (River side Assemblies) are already campus 2.
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Back to the sermon…
Extreme adventure
Adventure can be very exciting, Pastor chip encouraged you all to take an adventure, to do something adventureous, but on the same note we need to do soemthing adventureous using a Godlly approach.
Extending your reach can be a very extreme adventure.
1 Kings 17:7-15 (NIV)
The Widow at Zarephath
7 Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him: 9 “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.” 10 So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” 11 As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
12 “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.’ ”
15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
The sermon this unday was interactive with the participation of the church. We splat into groups of 3 and had to discuss what are our dreams. Well I am sure everyone had this faboulus thing they want to achieve one day. I want to fly a fighter jet, to become an ace…
Pastor Chip reminded us that life gets sofisticated as we grow older, we want to move beyond our younger years. In the story above from the bible, The widow obeyed Gods command. She, though had only or maybe less than enough to feed her son and herself, she broadened her horizon and did as Elijah Told her. She believed. She reached out.
Message…: Be inspired/Challenge afresh to be one that reaches out. When we give out of our need, God has what he needs to extend and meet someone elses need.
Look at the bible stor of two little fishes and 5 loaves whch when given to Jesus, met the needs of 5000 people. God used what the boy offered to share, which was probably his lunch or what his mom ahd sent him to the market for. He used it to feed a figure unimaginable to any man on this earth.
Pastor Chip Block at one point shocked the congregation by telling us his real name… Walter William Block III, His son is Walter William Benjamin Block IV. These are names he would haved used if he had taken over hos father and Granderfathers professon before him but he chose to spread thw word of God.
Friends Be blest and have a beautiful week ahead.
Yours Truely
Kathukya.
