So on Monday we set off for our last relay conference down to Quinta in the glorious sunshine. I guess for me i was looking forward to it although monday morning was a big rush trying to finish off presentations and applying for jobs. But we arrived and as usual for me i felt abit out of place but after a short while soon got back into normal conversations again.
Where have you come from?
We had our first session led by Anna Mackenzie on Psalm 129-131 remiding ourselves just how delicious the peas are aka how amazing the gospel is! We looked at the passages and saw how our hearts can decieve us but we must turn back to the gospel and trust in his promises. W were reminded too just of the certainty of the promise! Christs love for his people is more certain than the sun rising in the morning. Therefore whenever we see the new day come we should rejoice at Christs sacrifice for us being more certain!
The Church that has the Spirit (1 Cor 12:1-11)
Our Second Session was the first in a series by Maurice on 1 Corinthians 12-14 (the passages about the body, love and gifts!) We were challenged to look at these passages as a whole and i was reminded again about Paulas wisdom from pure "Dont bring your experience to the bible but stick to the truth!" So the fist session made many challeneges. First of all we saw how the spirit acts on us to bring the Lordship of Christ. We should use our gifts not for our own gain but to show that Jesus is Lord and that should be able to be seen. Then we saw how the spirit acts to bring variety in the Church. We shouldn't be in churches of a certain type but should see variety expressed across the church and this again should show the work of the spirit. For an interesting argument on this see Maurices blog on homogenous Church.
I was really excited after this talk and what was going to come next! This is something ive been thinking on for a while and in my elective study so it was great to hear some great bible exposition on the topic!
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