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Posts Tagged ‘spiritual growth’
College Small Group Prequel
Event Details: September 07, 2010 @
Come and join us this Tues. @ 7pm @ Ann’s Apt. in Berkeley as we look at the Gospel of Luke as an introduction to our semester in Acts- The Early Days of the Church. We’d love to see you there!
Email Austin (austin_bell@berkeley.edu) or Ann (annpham@gmail.com) for more information.
College Life- "Fit for the Kingdom"
Event Details: November 12, 2010 @
Join us as we continue our fall Friday fellowship times with a series centered around the kingdom of God, and what it looks like to be fit to enter it, live in it, and inherit it!
This week we’ll be talking about Inheriting the Kingdom. What is the ultimate fulfillment of being a citizen of the Kingdom of God? Hint: It’s absolutely mind-blowing!
Come prepared to worship God, deepen friendships (and make new ones), and open the Bible together to discover what God has in mind for you. For more info email Steve: steve.r.childs@gmail.com
College Life Summer Edition
Event Details: August 10, 2010 @
Looking for a place to spend the summer with other college students studying God’s Word, developing deep friendships, and having a blast doing it? Look no further! Tuesday nights at 7:30pm throughout the summer we’ll be gathering for College Life Summer Edition.
Contact Steve for details on location and any other questions: steve.r.childs@gmail.com.
Virtual Discipling
Pastor's Blog entry posted February 25, 2010
In pre-marital counseling, one of the challenges is to find those areas where each partner assumes, without discussion, that their way is right – without even realizing they’re not open to other ideas. How to celebrate Christmas, for example. Or how to discipline the kids that may come into the marriage. Problem is: if those differences aren’t brought to light early in the relationship, and thought through together, they lurk as probable causes of tension later on.
Which is why “discipling” has become a common source of disappointment. Jesus just said, “…as you go, disciple all nations…”, and “as the Father sent me, so send I you.” Which means, he wants us to carry on the work he did in leading us to spiritual maturity, in the same way he modeled discipling…with his disciples!
However, there’s no concise definition of discipling, and everyone who’s interested in discipling, or being discipled, sees something different in Jesus’ example. Plus, we add our strong American 21st century bias toward organization, and clear definition. This leads to programs – and to a mechanical view of what Jesus did. And ultimately, disappointment, because of the differing ideas of what we should have a right to expect: to be discipled by someone worthy of discipling us. Read on…







