The Apostolic Summit is over for another year.
The teaching this year seemed excellent with John McElroy and Jenny Hagger sharing the load with John Alley.
One common theme that seemed to emerge is that Christians often miss the point of living for God. We seek to approach God from earth to heaven- that is we want to make a religious attempt at serving God on our own terms. Instead God wants us to receive Him from heaven to earth- that is receiving grace and love from Him and responding to that on God's terms.
Jenny Hagger, who co-ordinates a city-wide prayer movement in Adelaide, talked about the way we approach prayer in the same way. Instead of seeing prayer as a task to get what we want, we should receive prayer as God's gift to us, allowing God to speak to us and direct our praying.
Today John Alley shared about seamless grace, an experience of God's grace that allows us to walk in such a powerful expression of God's Spirit that the church begins to truly fulfill its purposes as the body of Christ. The prerequisite for this is that we receive apostles in the church, learn to live in the spirit of sonship and then allow God to develop the local church into a holy community.
I will probably share later some of the teaching that was given.
Messages will be available at the Peace web-site
i agree with the comment so strongly about prayer. So many Christians (and we tend to do this in many churches) approach God with a "shopping list"
ReplyDeleteI think we need to find out what's on God's shopping list first. Whenever I pray for or with someone, I generally just wait silently for a moment listening for direction of how to pray. Listening should always be the dominant posture in our praying.
ReplyDeleteVery definately. Then focus our requests more on asking for the tools to complete the tasks we are given.
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