a true friend
August 17, 2009
I was musing with the King and had a revelation : The power of a great friend…. a real friend whilst may sharpen your life at times is a treasure to keep and never lose. The wound of a friend can be trusted. Life lived in isolation is no life at all…. ask God to bring great friends in your life..honost, pure, kingdom friends. Friends to grow old with, to laugh and cry with…. To straighten us when we go off course…. A friend remains when all have left the room and cannot take the heat with you… Now that is a friend.
weekend with Tyrone Daniel
August 10, 2009
What an exciting time to be alive and what an amazing time for the Australian churches. Yet I am convinced that it is an even greater time for the Kingdom. This weekend our Church and I had the privilege to have Tyrone Daniel minister with us. Ty and his wife Nicole lead our NCMI apostolic team and he just oozes with God’s grace and favour.
Friday we got together with all our NSW pastors for a time of encouragement and blessing. I loved that Ty reminded us to keep the main thing the main thing: KING Jesus and HIS Kingdom. I love hanging out with our pastors and just enjoying each others company.
Saturday we all met at our Church. What a special morning to seek God’s face. Again Tyrone reminded us that we need to move away from building mirrors in our Church settings and instead have windows that look out. Simple but oh so powerful. I needed to be reminded that what we, as a local Church, are called to be is a Kingdom base Church whose purpose is to love and worship the KING and love people.
I love the Gospel- itis such brilliant news for all humanity, all nations and backgrounds…. GOOD NEWS…
devoting ourselves
July 26, 2009
The Believers Form a Community:
“All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.” Acts 2:42 ( The Message)
I’ve often wondered what makes for a great, growing Church. The answer was under my nose. I had read Acts 2 many times but had failed to see V42 in the right light. All believers, that is you and I DEVOTED THEMSELVES.
No need for some hyper talk: motivating the troops at the local Church from the top down. No, the zeal for God’s house come from the grass roots, up. It comes from everyday believers… They had a solid, God centered devotion. They gave, served, loved, listened to sermons, enjoyed all types of worship, cared for all people, brought friends to Jesus Christ, simply out of personal devotion.
The Church across the centuries, has ensured a sickening version of spiritual codependency, whereby the saints and the leadership are utterly dependent upon themselves for self-worth, self-esteem and approval.
As long as “ I get my follow-up” I am happy. The problem with this is that no where in the bible will you see directly or indirectly implied that we must follow up people. Rather Jesus said, follow me…
If we point people to become more and more DEVOTED to God and centered around Him for all our needs, we will see :
1. Stronger and mature worshippers
2. less dependency of leaders for meeting our needs
3. greater desire to serve the local Church
4. greater love for others
5. greater joy, satisfaction and happiness as a result of being “other-focused”
Let us learn from the first Church the art of DEVOTING OURSELVES once again as they did.
welcome
July 15, 2009
Whilst new to the world of blogging, it is a real privilege to welcome you to our new web page. Whilst travelling through it, I pray that you may find more than great information, rather you may discover something about what makes The Lighthouse Church tick, our heart beat- JESUS and His house, the local Church.
I and our Church are passionate to see people connect with Jesus in a real and meaningful way. Our church is a place to belong, believe and behold.
It is so great to have you on board and look forward to blog with you over the many weeks and years to come.
If you are in the area we would be honoured to have you visit us at our Sunday celebration.
Ciao for now
Paul
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