Radical Discipleship: “You shall be my witnesses”.
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Monthly Archive for February, 2010
Radical Discipleship: “Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”
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March 6, 2010
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Monthly Saturday Morning Sessions 10.30-12.30
at BCC Office, 49a Saturday Market.
6th March Stay awake and watch
Healing Meeting: Jarrod Cooper, Saturday 13th February 2010
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Radical Discipleship: “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
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After preaching on forgiveness, it was suggested that I make available the 6 steps for total forgiveness. So here they are:
Step 1: Tell yourself the truth about the offense. Be honest and acknowledge to yourself that you’ve been hurt. Refuse to play the victim or martyr to gain sympathy from those around you or to try to force the offender to own up to the offense.
Step 2: Allow your feelings about the offense to surface. Admitting any hurt or shame helps to eliminate negative emotional energy and possible mental and physical damage caused by bitterness. Ask God to help empty the anger, resentment, and any feelings of vengeance and bitterness you have towards the offender. Stop holding the hurt inside, or waiting for feelings and emotions to go away.
Step 3: Release the offender from all emotional debts. A great deal of the hurt and rejection you experience is unintentional. The seeming lack of concern by an offender is often not an attempt to be insensitive. But, even if an offense is intentional, refrain from enforcing your right to retaliate or punish. Show forbearance and avoid taking any action you think is due. Spend time praying and following the Holy Spirit’s leading until you accept that the offender no longer owes you anything.
Step 4: Look past your hurt to see the offender as God sees them – as another fallen person in need of forgiveness and healing. This requires empathy – applying understanding, sympathy and compassion to the offender. You can’t do this on your own. The very thought of having empathy for someone who has wronged you can be tough. Only God can make the healing and restoration of damaged relationships possible.
Step 5: Forgive yourself. Understand and accept your identity in Christ. You have been totally forgiven. Allow the offense to help you mature spiritually. Become vulnerable and be willing to be hurt again and again. Extend forgiveness as many times as it takes (Matthew 18:21-22).
Step 6: Seek reconciliation. Be ready to move beyond past feelings of pain in order to develop a mutual relationship with the offender–Philippians 3:13. This may not be immediate and may take years. We may need to rebuild bridges of trust with those who have hurt us. We may need to confront them with what they have done in order to rebuild that trust (this is not always appropriate). What we cannot do is choose to ignore them.
Radical Discipleship: “The poor you always have with you.”
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Radical Discipleship: “If you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.”
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February 27, 2010
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Daniel & Global Prophecy
2:00pm on 27th February in the BCC office
February 28, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 pm
For this quarter we will be following a series entitled ‘Radical Discipleship’ which will consider some of the hard sayings of Jesus.
Subject: “You shall be my witnesses”
Speaker: Peter Spencer
Worship Leader: Tina Grant
