Australia Missions Trip in August

Australia in August Missions Trip:

Hey family this August we will be doing a three week missions trip partnering with Central Christian Church with pastor Robert Poliszuk and the Christian Central Church schools outreach team.  

  We will be going into the public schools doing a presentations and assemblies building a bridge form public schools to church.  We are looking at reaching at least 500+ students a week.  

  We will spend one full week entering school after school and doing our presentation and program while inviting youth in their school to participate in church on sunday where we will be helping to connect youth and families here to the local body of Christ.  

  The other part of our mission here in Newcastle Australia will be helping to structure a leadership team and develop a discipleship plan for our international university students partnering with the korean baptist church.  

  We will be meeting, teaching, and discipling university student leaders on how to run an effective small group, read and study the scriptures, and how to present, articulate, and communicate their faith in Christ.  

  Our goal is to empower and implant to these university students giving them tools to share the gospel with not only their university but to their respecting countries as well.  

  I am highly anticipating this trip.  And looking forward to seeing many come to know and connect with God on a personal and corporate level.  I am so blessed to be working with Christian Central Church and the Korean Baptist Church of Newcastle.  

  

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The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Eight Reasons in Support of God’s Existence

Summary

(I) Why anything at all exists.

(II) The origin of the universe.

(III) The applicability of mathematics to the physical world.

(IV) The fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life.

(V) Intentional states of consciousness.

(VI) Objective moral values and duties.

Moreover

(VII) The very possibility of God’s existence implies that God exists.

(VIII) God can be personally experienced and known.

(VIII) God can be personally known and experienced.

This isn’t really an argument for God’s existence; rather it’s the claim that you can know God exists wholly apart from arguments, by personally experiencing him. Philosophers call beliefs grasped in this way ‘properly basic beliefs’. They aren’t based on some other beliefs; rather they’re part of the foundation of a person’s system of beliefs. Other properly basic beliefs would be the belief in the reality of the past or the existence of the external world. When you think about it, neither of these beliefs can be proved by argument. How could you prove that the world was not created five minutes ago with built-in appearances of age like food in our stomachs from the breakfasts we never really ate and memory traces in our brains of events we never really experienced? How could you prove that you are not a brain in a vat of chemicals being stimulated with electrodes by some mad scientist to believe that you are reading this article? We don’t base such beliefs on argument; rather they’re part of the foundations of our system of beliefs.

But although these sorts of beliefs are basic for us, that doesn’t mean that they’re arbitrary. Rather they’re grounded in the sense that they’re formed in the context of certain experiences. In the experiential context of seeing and feeling and hearing things, I naturally form the belief that there are certain physical objects which I am sensing. Thus, my basic beliefs are not arbitrary, but appropriately grounded in experience. There may be no way to prove such beliefs, and yet it’s perfectly rational to hold them. Such beliefs are thus not merely basic, but properly basic. In the same way, belief in God is for those who seek Him a properly basic belief grounded in their experience of God.

Now if this is so, then there’s a danger that philosophical arguments for God could actually distract your attention from God Himself. The Bible promises, “Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.” (James 4:8) We mustn’t so concentrate on the external arguments that we fail to hear the inner voice of God speaking to our hearts. For those who listen, God becomes a personal reality in their lives.

check out full article here : Eight Reasons in Support of God’s Existence: click on link: http://philosophynow.org/issues/99/Does_God_Exist

New Hope Maui Guys Camp run sheet: May 2-3 2014

***friday afternoon leave from Oasis centre at 3:30 PM if need a ride be there then.  

friday night

*diner at 6PM

*7:30-9:30PM 

Session #1

"Tending your Fields"   

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."  -Theodore Rosevelt 

-we will be taking a personal inventory using a questionnaire (please fill out now so we can discus it at camp): 

Self questions: 

what are you responsible for? (people, business, area, etc.)

what kind of fruit are you seeing in each area?

how are you multiplying yourself?

how are you living to the glory of God?

Vision questions: 

what are some goals you want to accomplish 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years from now?

what are the steps you are doing now to meet those goals?

Church life questions:

what is your part in the body of Christ?

what is the role of the church?

how are you fulfilling what you see the role of the church is?

what are some things you can see that we need to improve on as the body of Christ?

how can we improve on them?

Missions questions:

what is your life mission?

what demographic are you called to? 

what are your gifts/ talents?

how does your life mission look like in your daily life?

Misc. questions: 

who are you mentoring?

who is mentoring you?

what is a characteristic you want to improve on?

in what area of you life you need help in the most?

-talk will be given on what it means to cultivate your fields, to guard its boundaries, assure its health, provide for it generously, and fill it with love so it thrives.  

-we will share our personal inventory questionnaire 

-we will share on how as men of new hope we can "tend its field."

-we will make commitments on how we can execute and follow through tending New Hopes field together 

saturday 

*8am - 9am Breakfast 

*9am-10:30am Session #2 

"Manly men build manly men."

"IF THE YOUNG ARE NOT INITIATED INTO THE VILLAGE, THEY WILL BURN IT DOWN JUST TO FEEL ITS WARMTH."  -African proverb

-we will be discussing what is our strategy for discipleship, purpose of being intentional in who we are discipling, and what it means to be discipled by Jesus 

-we will be discussing the 4/14 window and a call to rise up a generation to reach our world for Christ seeing that the biggest force to fulfil the great commission is youth

-talk on reaching our public schools will be given as well and how we all have a part to play in rising up this generation

*11AM-3PM FREE TIME:

-spear fishing

-hiking

-cliff jumping

-skating

-surfing

-etc.

*3PM-4PM Last Session #3

"Missions"

"Make your life a mission- not an intermission." -Arnold H. Glasow

-we will talk about simple churches 

-we will talk about how to be strategic in missions

-we will talk about steps we can do now to prepare for church planting and strategic missions and how we are going to execute them

Discussions on Upcoming Possible Trips and Missions: 

-Australia: International Church: church development and leadership discipleship 

-Kauai: Public School Lunch Church Planting 

-North Carolina: Public School Lunch Church Planting 

-etc. if you have one share it please 

4PM clean up and leave

Knowledge that is Productive

Knowledge that is Productive
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1, by Os Hillman
04-12-2014

"For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." - 2 Peter 1:8

Productivity is a term all workplace believers can relate to. It is the by-product of what we desire from our work. Without productivity, we do not make sales, we do not deliver goods, and we do not achieve our goals. There are things in our work lives that can creep in making us unproductive. The same is true in our walk with God.

The apostle Peter tells us that we can become knowledgeable of Jesus but fail to be effective and productive in our relationship with Him. We are a society that has great knowledge, but our comparable scale of productivity from that knowledge is extremely weighted to the knowledge side. The apostle Peter tells us there is a solution to this dilemma.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith, goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:5-8).

Is your Christian experience filled with knowledge, but little power? Is there staleness in your walk with God? Is there unrest in your soul? It may be due to a need to develop character that only the Holy Spirit can develop out of an obedient heart. Ask the Lord today to add these qualities to your faith so that you can be productive as a soldier of Jesus Christ.