Discipleship

I recently returned from a few days away with my Moore College year. We had a couple of days away to reflect on keeping the centre at the centre. That is, making sure the gospel is at the centre of what we are doing. Or, making sure that everything we do is founded on the preaching of the Word. We opened God's Word -2 Peter, and were greatly encouraged by Bruce and Rose Hall from St Paul's Carlingford.

It was an encouraging time. There was much prayer and catching up, speaking about some of the joys and heartaches of ministry. This kind of camp is a good thing to encourage your pastors to go on, for it keeps them fresh for ministry and the task of proclaiming the gospel. In that, many of the camps/conferences are a very busy time for pastors/ministers as they talk and pastor those who are away with them.

Anyone want to read the Bible and pray?

This post over at the solapanel picks up on something that I have been thinking a lot about recently as I've been thinking about TBT.

You might have noticed that as we've asked people to prayerfully consider how they might be involved in serving next year, one of the options on the 'Looking forward to 2009' form is to meet with someone one-to-one to read the Bible, and we've also asked if you'd like to be trained in how to meet up with someone to read the Bible.

We heard on Sunday night that the Word became flesh and made his dwelling with us. It is in the Word of God that we come to know God. And he has given us the Bible, the words of God, so that we can come to know who he is and what he has done for us in Jesus. It is through his word that the Spirit works in us to change us to be more like Jesus. It is in his word that our sin is exposed and we are convicted of the need to repent.

So how are you going in your prayer and Bible reading? Why not get together with someone from TBT next year to read the Bible together regularly. Not sure how to do it? Then let us know and sign up to get some training next year so that you can be better equipped!