These are some of the same expressions of Missional Living that we implement in other contexts around the world.
I thought I would post this helpful article here, because these 8 ways express shortly what we hope to continue training people on in a Lab setting and living out ourselves as a family. Memphis Lab coming soon!
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Check out this link and read the article.
This is a quick update to all who have been praying for our Stateside travels. We made it well and traveled well. The kids were amazing and enjoyed every minute of it. No one was sick and no one had fever during our flights. We thank the Lord.
More updates to come including: Some stateside observation posts, a new blog/website announcement, and more discipleship videos to come…
So, stay tuned and continue to pray for our time during this stateside. Pray for refreshment and renewal in all ways.
This Psalm says better than I what we’ve experienced in these 14 short days in the states. Psalm 116:1-7
I love the LORD, because He hears
My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live. The cords of death encompassed me
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow. Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
“O LORD, I beseech You, save my life!”Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate. The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
This was Teo and I at our last coffee in this city and country for a while.
I told him to “be a disciple Maker until he dies”! And wrote this in a book I gave him:
Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an exampleof those who believe. Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching. Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery. Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
1 Timothy 4:12-16
Such an Emotional day…Crossing Cultures…
(We are headed to the States in two days for a Season before returning to Europe)
Today I had lunch with my dear brother for the last time here in this country and city. We rejoiced in the Lord for these past two years, and together encouraged one another.
This is the text I read to him:
Only be careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul
Joshua 22:5
I also read to him; Joshua 23:6, 8
All of this on my oldest sons 3rd birthday. And oh the grace in his life…Emotional Day!
Video 2
In this video we talk about how we met and his reaction to my request to meet with him in discipleship. Enjoy, and pray for this brother.
I’m privileged to finally get to introduce you to Teo in this next video series on Discipleship. He embodies a young man ready for and thriving in discipleship. His humility and readiness week after week is always refreshing.
I’m Honored, enjoy this series, and pray according to what you hear and are encouraged by. And pray especially for Teo.
2 Timothy 2:2 for the Nations.
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This is a book I hope to read soon!
Here is a brief article with some crucial points of the book: Click Here
Here is the title and place to order: Click Here
This is the vision I set forth about 6 months ago with a team of national brothers. With this before us, we then launched our bi-monthly youth meetings teaching, modeling, and working to implement these elements of focus.
By the grace of God, we launched those meetings for this past spring semester and the Lord used our times together to press these young people to Christ. Youth here in Europe could mean unmarried, or range from about 13yrs-30yrs of age. So we had a large range to cover and we tried to do that in a more focused way through small groups after the main teaching sessions.
As we transition back to the States for a season, it will be up to the team of leaders I’ve poured into and some of the progressing youth to “take the baton” and see these meetings to Biblical soundness and continuation for this fall semester. Please pray in regards to these meetings and that fruit would abound.
Here is the Vision we set forth: Vision for the Next Generation
Psalm 78:5-7
Elements of Focus:
Romans 10:13-17, Romans 1:16, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
1 John 1:3, 1 Corinthians 1:9
Psalm 17:15, Psalm 29:2, Revelations 4:11
2 Timothy 2:2, Deuteronomy 6, Joel 1:
1 Peter 4:11, 1 Peter 4:10, John 13:34-35
Biblical Vision: Ephesians 3:20-21
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
-Emphasis added.
