New men's group on the horizon
It's looking like my new discipleship group will begin meeting 2 weeks from tonight. I've got men, I believe and am hoping to pick up another or maybe two by this Sunday. So far it is skewing a bit more mature than last year. I'm not aiming that way, but that is who God is giving me.
I've come up with three markers, or benchmarks (whatever you want to call them) that will define how we do business. The first is the ver is Revelation 10, where the Angel gives to John a scroll and tells him to eat it. That is how we will deal with Scripture this year. I want it to get down inside our stomachs, stengthen our bones and muscles and give health to the body. Not casual reading, but eating the book.
The second image is simliar. At our first meeting, right after we open in prayer, I'm going to give each of the guys a lifesaver and ask them to just let it sit in their mouths until it dissolves. No eating, chewing or swallowing. Just keep it there until it is gone. This will serve as a parable for how we will do things. We will sit on the stories in Genesis slowly and let them dissolve into us. No hurrying or trying just to get it done. Let it dissolve.
The last image is that of a volcano. When a volcano erupts, what is inside explodes outwardly. The opposite is that is an 'irruption' where what is outside explodes inward. In the stories of the Patriarchs, God breaks into their lives much like an irruption. How does God break into our lives in a similar way??
I've come up with three markers, or benchmarks (whatever you want to call them) that will define how we do business. The first is the ver is Revelation 10, where the Angel gives to John a scroll and tells him to eat it. That is how we will deal with Scripture this year. I want it to get down inside our stomachs, stengthen our bones and muscles and give health to the body. Not casual reading, but eating the book.
The second image is simliar. At our first meeting, right after we open in prayer, I'm going to give each of the guys a lifesaver and ask them to just let it sit in their mouths until it dissolves. No eating, chewing or swallowing. Just keep it there until it is gone. This will serve as a parable for how we will do things. We will sit on the stories in Genesis slowly and let them dissolve into us. No hurrying or trying just to get it done. Let it dissolve.
The last image is that of a volcano. When a volcano erupts, what is inside explodes outwardly. The opposite is that is an 'irruption' where what is outside explodes inward. In the stories of the Patriarchs, God breaks into their lives much like an irruption. How does God break into our lives in a similar way??
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