Sunday, April 27, 2014
Reaching Out
There is a new emphasis on disciple-making at Kamulu Church. Irene's granddaughter Stephanie was baptized last week and back with us yesterday. The women reached out to another woman and baptized her last week. And yesterday Jane Njeri's grandson was baptized. And a neighbor, Tobias, came to worship yesterday. Happy to see growth apart from the MITS family!
Monday, April 14, 2014
Amazing Grace and Disciple-Making
Grace is amazing! We have been doing a study of the book of Revelation at Kamulu - we did chapter 21 Sunday and Easter will see us finish up with chapter 22. Mbuvi has asked me to preach that sermon, and I always teach the Sunday morning class when I am here. I will do the Lord's Supper as part of the sermon, and Barbara (one of the church members) will make 100 chapati. So each two people will have a chapati to share for the Lord's Supper, which will take some time to eat, and they can talk about the resurrection and eternal life while eating. Each one will also have a larger cup of juice than usual. We will also have a fellowship meal following worship.
Back to chapter 21 - the angel who takes John to the mountain has a measuring stick made of gold to measure the city of God, bedecked like a bride for Christ. It turns out the city is 2,400 kilometers wide and high and long. I did the math on living conditions.
We won't need a toilet or shower. And we won't need a kitchen. And the women won't need to find a place for a husband's toys. So...I asked the class about how much room each one of us would need. Jane Njeri, who is on MITS staff, said her current apartment is about 20 feet by 10 feet. I asked if 20 x 25 would be big enough. She thought that would be a lot better than she has now. So...if we all have 20 x 25 feet, and there are hallways -- I'm not sure we need hallways, but if we do...there is room for 360,000,000,000,000,000 people. And everybody knows that lots of street kids could live in 2,400 kilometers of hallways.
So - it makes sense to make disciples, because there is room for a lot of people - everybody we know or ever meet in all our lives - there is room for all of them.
Amazing grace!
Many of the Team at MITS went to a Disciple-Making Movement seminar last week. They came home thrilled. Maybe the beginning of a whole new movement among us....Amazing Grace!
Back to chapter 21 - the angel who takes John to the mountain has a measuring stick made of gold to measure the city of God, bedecked like a bride for Christ. It turns out the city is 2,400 kilometers wide and high and long. I did the math on living conditions.
We won't need a toilet or shower. And we won't need a kitchen. And the women won't need to find a place for a husband's toys. So...I asked the class about how much room each one of us would need. Jane Njeri, who is on MITS staff, said her current apartment is about 20 feet by 10 feet. I asked if 20 x 25 would be big enough. She thought that would be a lot better than she has now. So...if we all have 20 x 25 feet, and there are hallways -- I'm not sure we need hallways, but if we do...there is room for 360,000,000,000,000,000 people. And everybody knows that lots of street kids could live in 2,400 kilometers of hallways.
So - it makes sense to make disciples, because there is room for a lot of people - everybody we know or ever meet in all our lives - there is room for all of them.
Amazing grace!
Many of the Team at MITS went to a Disciple-Making Movement seminar last week. They came home thrilled. Maybe the beginning of a whole new movement among us....Amazing Grace!
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