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Building For A Growing Family

This Sunday is the "Building For A Growing Family" Miracle Pledge Day. As you've been hearing, we are making preparations to build a brand-new auditorium and redevelop the current facilities...all because the family is growing, and because we want to be obedient to the leadings of God!

Over the last few weeks we've heard some great messages about the building. Here's a short summary:

Wk 1 - It's for God's Glory (Ps Malcolm)
'people seek great things for themselves, yet we should live life for the Glory of God...'

Wk 2 - It's for the Generations (Ps Leighton)
'Samuel carried the Word of God all the days of his life...'

Wk 3 - It's for a 'Glocal' Community (Ps Karen)
'It all starts with the Great Commission...'

Wk 4 - It will take FAITH (Ps John)
'Experience is based on our past, but expectation is based on our future...'

Wk 5 - It will take VISION (Ps Malcolm)
(tune in this week for this message!!)

We're really excited about this Sunday, and believing for amazing Miracles!!!

The 'Apostolic'

Interesting to note that there's some doozy words out there, not commonly used in everyday language..yet they are powerful, particularly when it comes to God's Kingdom. One of those words is 'Apostolic' and for Ps Matt Street, our Missions Pastor, it recently came up in conversation and here's what he wrote about the meaning of the word 'Apostolic'

"The apostolic authority on a man of God is an impartational authority rather than a legislative one. Both the apostle and prophet have the ability to receive revelation about the purposes of God for the Church. The primary focus of both these ministries is the church and its destiny. This is one reason why Paul declares that the Church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. The prophet will clearly see the plan of God for the future of the church but will not always be able to implement it on his own.

The apostle has a unique ability to recognise the direction that the spirit is leading the church in, and he also has the ability to know how best to implement that. His special anointing enables people to comprehend the vision, and participate in it.

Paul was not a pastor of a big church, and from scripture there is no written evidence of him pastoring his own church at all. Paul was a missionary with an apostolic anointing who planted churches, established the Kingdom, raised up leaders and ushered in change or correct biblical living through the spirit."

Blessings,

Ps Matt

Long Weekends & Friends..

So today was the Queens Birthday Holiday, and for my family & I, it meant a day out with some great friends on a drive to Ballarat (lunch @ the famous Bakery Hill Macca's)

It rained. We lost a sock.....and nearly a child. Macca's probably isn't the healthiest food in the world. And we got lost looking for a massive lake....that had no water in it!

The great thing about it all though - it was a day spent with some awesome people, people from the Life Group I'm hooked up in. People who I care about, and I can probably assume that coz they laugh at my lame jokes, they care a bit about me too!

I believe friendship & relationship like this, has to be one of the most powerful forces in God's Kingdom! There's accountability in the friendship. There's encouragement in the friendship. And there's mission & purpose in the friendship. We're united in wanting to further extend God's Kingdom here on earth....and we're having some fun along the way!

If you want to have some friends, it's been said you should be a friend first...

God Bless

Leighton

getting the ball rolling...

Hey, so here we are...bloggin' away!

This is gonna be a bit of a joint effort from a whole bunch of us at South West Christian Church, and we're looking forward to sharing all the fun stuff, thoughtful stuff, wise stuff, and upcoming stuff...with you all! Hope you enjoy it!

As for right now, the Building For A Growing Family campaign is rolling along nicely! I'm really looking forward to the Miracle Pledge Day on June 21, and I know it's going to be one of those 'wow' moments in God!

Dinners up, my beautiful bride has excelled again, so I'm outta here!

God Bless,

Leighton