The church staff has two days of Staff Spiritual Emphasis with Rev Irvin Rutherford, the man who has contributed to the founding of Teen Challenge, Singapore. Now he is 65 years old, but still serving the Lord strongly & faithfully, travelling to minister & adopt spiritual children in different parts of the world. Wow..i want to be like him when i turn 65 by the grace of God.
He shared many powerful truths. I would like to share with you on "Engaging Culture":
- When Christians make church the focal point of their lives & ministry, they burn each other like an over-salted dish & blind each other like a room filled with spotlights.
- When a church loses focus, people get busy fighting among themselves. When our focus is not finding people & changing society from right where we are, we start using kingdom resources to build our own kingdom.
- There is absolutely no use in having a big church without changing culture, speaking to society & curing social ills.
- Ego-centricism kills leadership because it shrinks their ambition to the size of their desires. Leadership is based on the Word of God.
- The gospel of salvation, in isolation will not change the earth. When you teach a half-truth, you destroy the truth. Let the Word of God advance in FULL truth by finishing the task & bringing closure of the Great Commission.
- This world can only be properly managed by people, who rule from superior place & superior principles.
- We must work better & hanrder than anyone else. The Kingdom of God will work for us at the same level we are committed to the kingdom.
- Only those who are increasingly filled with God's nature will become deliverers & saviours of their nation, community & family. Love & help people before you ever try to influence them.
My friends, engage with culture by having the paradigm shift from ME to OTHERS, CHURCH to COMMUNITY. Let our light so shine before men that others may see the good works & glorufy our Father in heaven.
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