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God is working his purposes out
Hey all,
After a quieter week last week, this week has seen us once again immersed in our usual activities, as well as a flurry of excitement for the June Project. Many of us are taking on different responsibilities for the June project and I have found it personally encouraging seeing how God has gifted us all incredibly differently, yet able to work together well!
This week has also seen our wonderful teaching series on church history with Melody, coming to an end. The past six weeks has been a whistle-stop tour through some of the most fascinating and life changing events that the church has ever seen. We have seen the persecution of the church right at the beginning of its history, the mission of the monks taking the gospel all over the world, the reformation and the doctrine of justification by faith and the charismatic movement to name but a few.
In our final session we looked back over the whole of church history and thought about how we could see God working throughout. For me, this was mind boggling as I saw God working in and through people no matter what. Also, that despite the church not being perfect, God was still able to use it and establish his purposes. So often in our walks with God it can feel like we aren’t making progress or really helping to advance the kingdom but the story of the church shows us something different. It shows us that people’s own seemingly small confessions of faith and willingness to serve him in whatever capacity, have the power to set the world alight and create an impact that may only be seen many years later.
We were challenged as interns to think about what the church of the 25th century might say about the church of today - not an easy thing to work out! I, and hopefully you also, would want them to say that we were a generation who were willing to be authentic followers of Jesus Christ and to serve him in whatever way he may want us to. Furthermore, that we were more concerned with seeing the bigger picture of what God is doing than being dragged down by the weight of the world.
As Delirious so brilliantly put it: "I want to be a history maker in this land; I want to be a speaker of truth to all man-kind. I want to stand; I want to run, into your arms".
Are we willing?
Joy xx