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Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World
By David Garrison
Changes. "Parting is such sweet sorrow" how true a phrase. It has become very real to me over the last year. Yet again I find myself facing changes. It seems like the past year and a half that my life has been one change after another. College, student teaching, graduation, St. Louis, CWJC, Tulsa, Charleston, Tulsa, home, VA, home, Mx! It seems very rare that I ever spend more than 5 months in one place. I am very much looking forward to being in Mexico for 2 years (or maybe longer...whatever God has in store). I know that once I am there, Mexico City is home. I can really be able to pour into my students, learning Spanish, and the locals! I look forward to making relationship that go beyond just the surface level. Relationships where I can really talk about important things. It is very hard getting to know people and establish relationships in a new community knowing that after a little bit of time, you are leaving. I still can't get over how blessed I am that God would allow me to be His servant in Mexico. I still often question why. When those doubting moments begin, I can't help but look to His grace and knowing that is enough. I must go. (24However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." Acts 20:24) The task is scary. The task is risky. The task is hard. BUT... God is bigger. The cross is worth it. Jesus told us to "Go into all the nations", and although the USA is inclusive in that statement, I know with a peace that passes all understanding that Mexico is exactly where I need to be, where God has called me. I have considered the cost and I must go. Yet again I am reminded by the scripture that I can't seem to move away from.
"24 But the king replied to Araunah, 'No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.' " (so, King David has been told to make a sacrafice and Araunah offers to give him whatever he needs, the above is King David's reply)
No sacrifice without cost. There is a cost, but their is a greater reward!
"7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. " Philippians 3:7-13
¡Al dios solamente sea la gloria!
Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World
By David Garrison
Changes. "Parting is such sweet sorrow" how true a phrase. It has become very real to me over the last year. Yet again I find myself facing changes. It seems like the past year and a half that my life has been one change after another. College, student teaching, graduation, St. Louis, CWJC, Tulsa, Charleston, Tulsa, home, VA, home, Mx! It seems very rare that I ever spend more than 5 months in one place. I am very much looking forward to being in Mexico for 2 years (or maybe longer...whatever God has in store). I know that once I am there, Mexico City is home. I can really be able to pour into my students, learning Spanish, and the locals! I look forward to making relationship that go beyond just the surface level. Relationships where I can really talk about important things. It is very hard getting to know people and establish relationships in a new community knowing that after a little bit of time, you are leaving. I still can't get over how blessed I am that God would allow me to be His servant in Mexico. I still often question why. When those doubting moments begin, I can't help but look to His grace and knowing that is enough. I must go. (24However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." Acts 20:24) The task is scary. The task is risky. The task is hard. BUT... God is bigger. The cross is worth it. Jesus told us to "Go into all the nations", and although the USA is inclusive in that statement, I know with a peace that passes all understanding that Mexico is exactly where I need to be, where God has called me. I have considered the cost and I must go. Yet again I am reminded by the scripture that I can't seem to move away from.
"24 But the king replied to Araunah, 'No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.' " (so, King David has been told to make a sacrafice and Araunah offers to give him whatever he needs, the above is King David's reply)
No sacrifice without cost. There is a cost, but their is a greater reward!
"7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. " Philippians 3:7-13
¡Al dios solamente sea la gloria!
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