Love

This morning we had the opportunity to hear Vaughn Roberts speak on Eph. 4:1-16.

Here are some quotes I wrote down that I thought were particularly thought provoking:

The world should be drawn to us by our unity, rather if is often repulsed by discord.

Unity is a fact. We are unified by our relationship with Christ and the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.

Love for those who love you is ordinary.
Love for those who those we do not like is extraordinary.
Love for those who persecute us is revolutionary.

When we freeze water we make all the cubes the same. When God freezes water He makes snowflakes. (Uniqueness of which we are made)

He often used a phrase called the Great Omission that was defined as the lack of teaching the word through discipleship.

Lastly, Love requires truth telling. If you love some you must tell them the truth, in love.

In our second session today we focused in on Unreached people groups. There are 2, 252 people groups in the world that are unreached most of which we did not know about until 30 years ago some even within the past 5 years. A effective means of communicating the Gospel in areas that do not have the bible translated is through oral story telling very much as the way that the Old Testament was passed down from generation to generation.

One fourth of all decision made this year have been through the Internet. Communicated the Gospel has been changing dramatically as we have traditionally preached the Gospel, then we printed the Gospel, and with video and new technologies we now are portraying the Gospel.

Tonight’s session focused in on the continent of Africa and children. Both a strong passion of mine. Africa was classified tonight as a fatherless nation and they felt it was a major reason for so many of their problems. The present a great ministry that reaches out to coaches that spread the Gospel through sports. We even have friends of this ministry at HPPC.

Did you know that the amount of Christians in Africa over the past 100 years has increased 3,000%. That is an amazing statistic that they paid tribute to the West sending missionaries. As a result Africa is now a sending continent. They are sending missionaries to Europe and even to the United States!

There are 2 billion children in the world. God has always had a plan for children such as young Samuel who heard God’s voice or the boy who’s name we don’t know who say his fish and loaves multiplied to feed the thousands. Our strategic plans should have great weight on children as most Christians begin their relationship with Christ before the age of 18.

Duffy Johnson