Here are some of my favorite moments from yesterday's video interviews:
Jon Ortberg reminded us that we need to get off our comfortable benches and out into the world of helping people. He told an illustration of some seminary students who would not stop and help a hurting person as they rushed off to preach sermons on the Good Samaritan.
Tony Campolo hold a story of hungry children in Haiti who peered through the window at the restaurant where he was eating. The waiter closed the blinds and told him not to let them bother him.
Lynn Hybels encouraged us that in the midst of all the possible needs in the world we need to listen to hear what God is specifically calling us to do. One way to discern that is to ask, "What makes me cry?"
Philip Yancey shared about a church in South Africa that has a much larger staff and budget for its AIDs outreach than they have for the church itself. He told the story of a little girl who was named "No Hope" who had her name changed to "God is My Hope."
The final segment featured a rescue mission worker who was moved to pick up a homeless man and carry him to the shelter.
These are just a few of the stories we heard yesterday. If you were there, what was your favorite?
And, what makes you cry?
Jeff, My favorite story and what made me cry was when I heard how much FUMC raised for the clean water well and then to hear how God put his interest on top of that by lowering the cost of one well so we may be able to actually build two. That is just like Him to do that. I feel like it was He that was making a statement to us. Sometimes when I am using an audiometer to screen students' hearing I have to turn the decibels of the first frequency way up so they know what it is they are trying to listen for. That is what God did to FUMC. The video reinforced that and gives us encouragement now to continue listening and identifying the frequencies in "What is ours to do!"
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ReplyDeleteI always like to hear Johnny Erickson Tada, as she talks about God, and how he has helped her in her life. How she talks about all of the good Samaritan's that God has used to help her.
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Years ago, at a conference a speaker talked on the Good Samaritan story, and he challenged all of us asking ..... Where is your Samaria? Where is it that God wants you to go and to do a good thing, a right thing, to make some kind of correction in your life? Who is it you must go to? Who does God want you to help?
Listen and then go!
A clear reminder that God wants to use us to accomplish his work.
Mike