Last Sunday we held our annual 'South West Celebrates' event, and it was amazing!! HUGE thanks to everyone who helped with the setup & preparation, the packup & cleanup...the whole lot. It was a team effort and definitely a job well done!!
God is doing great things in & through our church. So much that we can celebrate about!!
- the diverse cultures & nations represented
- the generations.. old & young, men & women
- the vision & journey ahead of us. This is not a church content with where we are at, we're believing for soooo much more!
I think also, that is what was so timely about Dr.Stuart Robinsons message that he shared on Sunday morning. Don't think that things can't be done, & don't settle for comfort & the here and now. Believe that with God 'all things are possible!'
Let's keep moving forward church! There's another person to reach out to, another neighbourhood to influence, a city to win!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Playing to win
No runner when he arrives at the starting line of the race runs to obtain second or third, they always run to win.
No afl coach comes to the game and coaches to lose they all coach to win the game.
Michael Voss, the Brisbane Lions Coach said, "If any coach comes to the game wanting to lose they should not be in the game."
Whenever we want to do something out of the norm, exceptional, something that we haven't done before, fear and doubt is sometimes our closest friend. Often we can lose before we have actually lost. Often we can have the mindset of 'this is impossible' and we validate that by making it impossible. We play to lose instead of playing to win.
To go to the next level in our lives, to grow, to change, to do something that no one has done before we need to play to win, not allow doubt and fear to rob us from the exceptional future God has for us.
We play based on our conviction, the winning faith in our hearts that secures victory.
1 John 5:4: "this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith."
Our winning faith overcomes anything the world can throw at us and secures our victory, makes us winners...
But to be winners, we need to play like winners, play with solid conviction, winning faith that overcomes anything!
Play to win and just wait and see what God can do!
God Bless
Ps Nathan
South West Community Services
No afl coach comes to the game and coaches to lose they all coach to win the game.
Michael Voss, the Brisbane Lions Coach said, "If any coach comes to the game wanting to lose they should not be in the game."
Whenever we want to do something out of the norm, exceptional, something that we haven't done before, fear and doubt is sometimes our closest friend. Often we can lose before we have actually lost. Often we can have the mindset of 'this is impossible' and we validate that by making it impossible. We play to lose instead of playing to win.
To go to the next level in our lives, to grow, to change, to do something that no one has done before we need to play to win, not allow doubt and fear to rob us from the exceptional future God has for us.
We play based on our conviction, the winning faith in our hearts that secures victory.
1 John 5:4: "this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith."
Our winning faith overcomes anything the world can throw at us and secures our victory, makes us winners...
But to be winners, we need to play like winners, play with solid conviction, winning faith that overcomes anything!
Play to win and just wait and see what God can do!
God Bless
Ps Nathan
South West Community Services
an Element Youth update...
Friday night's Uprising was amazing! The worship team lacked a bass player (for some weird unknown reason!!), but in no way lacked the presence of God; the preaching (by the one and only Gethsi "Awesome" Alagendran) was impacting and a life-changing word to those who received; and the generosity in giving by the young guys and girls stepped up a notch.
Bala's offering message was awesome. He basically talked about Jesus. It was great! (We took up almost three times what was taken up the week before)
Gethsi's word was amazing - fun, deep, but incredibly practical. She preached on buidling our lives on Jesus, the only proper and lasting foundation. I think everyone knows that a lot of teens can come along to enjoy programs, play ball games, wrestle and knock teeth out (for the guys). But one common misconception held by many is that they all know the Gospel - they might have head knowledge, but that's useless without heart transformation. What I love about Gethsi's word is that she basically preached the Gospel, the root of all transformation, and the foundation of our faith! But what really needs to happen is heart transformation in many lost guys and girls who just love coming along because their parents make them, or they have nothing better to do on a friday night - or maybe even that they want to see a guy or girl they think is pretty good looking (hey, I'm just being realistic!)
So in all of this greatness, with a generous, kind, God-loving and God-fearing bunch of young teenagers in Uprising, there are still a bunch who aren't gripped by God's grace, and aren't transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I urge you to pray for those who are currently attending, but also to continue to pray for us, that we'll see teens saved for God's kingdom, and see them transformed by the power of God. Let us watch God do an amazing thing in and through our youth!
Daniel Tusjak
Uprising Youth Leader
Bala's offering message was awesome. He basically talked about Jesus. It was great! (We took up almost three times what was taken up the week before)
Gethsi's word was amazing - fun, deep, but incredibly practical. She preached on buidling our lives on Jesus, the only proper and lasting foundation. I think everyone knows that a lot of teens can come along to enjoy programs, play ball games, wrestle and knock teeth out (for the guys). But one common misconception held by many is that they all know the Gospel - they might have head knowledge, but that's useless without heart transformation. What I love about Gethsi's word is that she basically preached the Gospel, the root of all transformation, and the foundation of our faith! But what really needs to happen is heart transformation in many lost guys and girls who just love coming along because their parents make them, or they have nothing better to do on a friday night - or maybe even that they want to see a guy or girl they think is pretty good looking (hey, I'm just being realistic!)
So in all of this greatness, with a generous, kind, God-loving and God-fearing bunch of young teenagers in Uprising, there are still a bunch who aren't gripped by God's grace, and aren't transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I urge you to pray for those who are currently attending, but also to continue to pray for us, that we'll see teens saved for God's kingdom, and see them transformed by the power of God. Let us watch God do an amazing thing in and through our youth!
Daniel Tusjak
Uprising Youth Leader
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