Friday, November 04, 2005
The Week of Inspiration: Mission Possible
We've had a week of inspiration, which means that we've had guests at Vejlefjord from Newbold College. Each morning and each evening, these four young pastors-to-bees inspired us through stories from the Old Testament. The theme was "Mission Impossible".
Monday night, Daniel told about Prince Jonathan who sneaked to the filistines camp at night and started attacking them. They had this pretty (extremely) big army (was it 30.000 carriages and 5.000 troopers?), and then Jonathan just killed 20 men like squashing bugs. Then God joined him with an earth quake, and the filistines ran off. Thanks to the power of God and the faith of Jonathan, son of Saul. Daniel is a great and calm storyteller, knows how to express himself clearly, and in short.
Tuesday, we heard about David as he attacked Goliath (you probably know that one). Isaac, who has definitely been given the gift of performing, both told and acted, how this young fella got caugt up as he felt the anger of God pointed towards the filistine who said bad things about God. Good entertainment, and very good points.
Wednesday, it got a bit too long, sorry to say. It's somewhat silly to say that, beacuse if it's good, how can it be too long? And it definitely was good, and Risto must've had great courage to talk about this. He had some really important issues about sex, about attraction, the difference of being beautiful and being sultry. His starting-point was the story of Tamnar, daughter of David, who gets raped by her half-brother, who "loves" her in a bad sense. Risto may have talked 50 minutes and at the end he obviously hurried a lot, seemed stressed. But I'll say this, he had some really important issues, strongly relevant for young people, vejlefjord no exception.
Thursday (yesterday), Robert told us the story of Jehud, a Benjamite, who were not able to use his right hand. He stuck a sword into a big fat king's enormous belly (using his left hand) to free Israel. And he succeeded. God used him, got him involved with his master plan, didn't care that Jehud had a cripple hand.
Friday night, end of the week, beginning of Sabbath. Three people were baptized. Today's subject was Mission Possible. "Here's the deal, during this week God has been working for you. Now, it's your time. Here's what you can do for him." Or something like that. He did very well, pointed out from the bible the meaning of getting baptized, and he asked every believer to come up front to join in praying for the future.
I've been very troubled with homework, lately. But it's been nice going these meetings, returning to this peaceful spiritual dimension every night. What would I do without this opportunity of going to God now and then? How do non-believers manage? Do they? I'd do a lot, just to share with them this simple feeling I get every Sabbath when a voice inside my head calmly says, "It's time for a break. No more homework, no more stress. This time belongs to you and to God."
(Please ignore bad grammar and/or bad spelling.)
Monday night, Daniel told about Prince Jonathan who sneaked to the filistines camp at night and started attacking them. They had this pretty (extremely) big army (was it 30.000 carriages and 5.000 troopers?), and then Jonathan just killed 20 men like squashing bugs. Then God joined him with an earth quake, and the filistines ran off. Thanks to the power of God and the faith of Jonathan, son of Saul. Daniel is a great and calm storyteller, knows how to express himself clearly, and in short.
Tuesday, we heard about David as he attacked Goliath (you probably know that one). Isaac, who has definitely been given the gift of performing, both told and acted, how this young fella got caugt up as he felt the anger of God pointed towards the filistine who said bad things about God. Good entertainment, and very good points.
Wednesday, it got a bit too long, sorry to say. It's somewhat silly to say that, beacuse if it's good, how can it be too long? And it definitely was good, and Risto must've had great courage to talk about this. He had some really important issues about sex, about attraction, the difference of being beautiful and being sultry. His starting-point was the story of Tamnar, daughter of David, who gets raped by her half-brother, who "loves" her in a bad sense. Risto may have talked 50 minutes and at the end he obviously hurried a lot, seemed stressed. But I'll say this, he had some really important issues, strongly relevant for young people, vejlefjord no exception.
Thursday (yesterday), Robert told us the story of Jehud, a Benjamite, who were not able to use his right hand. He stuck a sword into a big fat king's enormous belly (using his left hand) to free Israel. And he succeeded. God used him, got him involved with his master plan, didn't care that Jehud had a cripple hand.
Friday night, end of the week, beginning of Sabbath. Three people were baptized. Today's subject was Mission Possible. "Here's the deal, during this week God has been working for you. Now, it's your time. Here's what you can do for him." Or something like that. He did very well, pointed out from the bible the meaning of getting baptized, and he asked every believer to come up front to join in praying for the future.
I've been very troubled with homework, lately. But it's been nice going these meetings, returning to this peaceful spiritual dimension every night. What would I do without this opportunity of going to God now and then? How do non-believers manage? Do they? I'd do a lot, just to share with them this simple feeling I get every Sabbath when a voice inside my head calmly says, "It's time for a break. No more homework, no more stress. This time belongs to you and to God."
(Please ignore bad grammar and/or bad spelling.)
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