Misty Edwards - OneThing08Conference
Go out to the world, just like Christ...with ARMS WIDE OPEN
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Friends, Family...Life in general, REMEMBER/CELEBRATE/FIGHT BACK
So lately, my life has been changing, probably even more than I realize. What is it that's been changing?
Thinking through my life lately, who are my real friends? Why do I need to satisfy myself with just people here on earth when I have God? I've always gone to friends here on earth before going to the Lord about whatever. Something I'm realizing more and more in my experience is to go and trust in God first before anyone or anything else. I have a few really good friends here on earth and I pray to continue to grow in my friendships with people. Along with that though, I want to grow in my relationship with God before everything. God has always been my provider and I never realized it as much until this schoolyear.
Who is really my family? To be honest I find many to be my family now. Not only do I have the family who raised me, loved me, and cared for me all these years but I have many more in my family. I really, truly love and miss them though things can be hard at times. I do get to see them though like twice a month at least since I live so close. Recently this year my home family grew through births, marriages/engagements, etc. But they aren't just my family. I'm part of a family just in Gettysburg Masters Commission and at Freedom Valley. There is even a bigger family I'm a part of and that we all can be when we follow God...that is the BODY OF CHRIST.
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Thinking through my life lately, who are my real friends? Why do I need to satisfy myself with just people here on earth when I have God? I've always gone to friends here on earth before going to the Lord about whatever. Something I'm realizing more and more in my experience is to go and trust in God first before anyone or anything else. I have a few really good friends here on earth and I pray to continue to grow in my friendships with people. Along with that though, I want to grow in my relationship with God before everything. God has always been my provider and I never realized it as much until this schoolyear.
Who is really my family? To be honest I find many to be my family now. Not only do I have the family who raised me, loved me, and cared for me all these years but I have many more in my family. I really, truly love and miss them though things can be hard at times. I do get to see them though like twice a month at least since I live so close. Recently this year my home family grew through births, marriages/engagements, etc. But they aren't just my family. I'm part of a family just in Gettysburg Masters Commission and at Freedom Valley. There is even a bigger family I'm a part of and that we all can be when we follow God...that is the BODY OF CHRIST.
Casting Crowns - "If We Are The Body"
I absolutely love music. I'm very passionnate about showing others to Christ through music whether it is singing, playing piano, or worship leading.
I've had a great time also with my new family that God placed me with for this schoolyear. The Kadish's are so much fun to hang out with and especially this one...
Hopefully this upload worked.
Christianity to me is living for the one true and only God of the universe, loving and helping others and following Christ's example.
Another thing I've been thinking about lately is how busy I've always made my life. I was always busy with sports, music, girl scouts or church. My whole life has been about doing my best and doing the right thing. I've always tried to never mess up and though I wasn't really popular in school, I never gave into when people asked me to do things that were wrong. I have some great friends from this year and in my past t hat I've never realized, and people who are definately part of my family life. So many important people have been taken away from me yet others have also come into my life.
My mom and pap lived for God as much as they were able to. I think that's why I love God and the body of Christ. At the same time I wonder why they were taken away from me. Something i've realized is that they are in a better place where they aren't suffering anymore and that they are with me in my heart always. The stupid disease of Cancer takes so many lives including it took my Mom and Pap. Something I've been really praying and trying to think through is creating my own Relay For Life team this year. I've done RFL for the past, well all through middle and high school and last year in college. I'm praying that between family and friends I can make a team, maybe even a couple and have the support. If I ask God and trust in him, he will provide. I know that because I've been trusting and using my faith in him with money recently.
Not only is this a logo for Relay For Life but I think this is a logo for Christians to live by...REMEMER/CELEBRATE/FIGHT BACK!
We need to remember why we have been put on this earth...to live for God. We need to celebrate our the life of Jesus Christ, following his example. We need to fight back living a life of good and not evil.
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Grace, Mercy, Love UNLIMITED...
Throughout my past week, I've learned alot about God's grace, mercy, and love. GMC has been away for about a week now on the road to Texas. We stopped in Tulsa and are on our way to Tulsa again. What I believe is that on this trip God kept us safe, brought us closer together with him on a more personal level, as a GMC team and as a masters commission team overall. The road trip has been long and tiring yet we had many laughs.
When we got to Tulsa, we stayed at Heather Bryant's house, hanging out with her and her roommate. We were able to have fun getting to know a past GMC student, seeing old friends (Jaclyn and Josh), went out to see the movie "Red" and went to the local Steak'n Shake restaraunt. Tulsa just brought back so many fun memories from our October trip to there. Tulsa may be flat, no mountains but it is so beautiful out there. I don't necessarily like cities but Tulsa is definately a place I want to move to in the future. I'm so excited to be helping out our Freedom Valley Church Tulsa church plant.
We hit the road and then went to Texas. We arrived to our hotel Saturday afternoon, StudioPlus right beside the famous SixFlags amusement park. Though it was cold in Tulsa, Dallas, Texas was a different story. The weather was so beautiful! Our first night there, we went into the city and spent time with Lance, Daniel, and Lance's friend. We all went out to walk around and ate dinner at some kareoke Texas pitbeef bbq place. That was like a cultural experience for me because I never had tht kind of food before. We actually ate at many different restaraunts that were cultural experiences for me. We went to a chinese place, mexican place, the famous pizza hut, etc. The food was ok but not the best part.
Before we really did anything, obviously we went to church. The one highlight of my week was going to Gateway Church (Kari Jobe's church)!!! I was so excited to be there even though she was on tour at the time. I'm so glad we were able to just praise and worship God there, going back into singing old hymns such as "Blessed Assurance". We went to some church for the womans conference and then attended RealLife Church for the MC conference.
We spent time at the Bloom Conference with Lisa Bevere and the Masters Commission International Network Conference with John Bevere, Frontline Worship and many other speakers. We met other masters students, heard fantastic "sermons" and spent time taking hilarious pictures and video which anyone who reads this will not be seeing. So many great memories. Lisa Bevere really preached on Proverbs 31 and being a Lioness. Being a Lionness is so important because as that, women are so strong, more then what everyone thinks. I'm really hoping to read her book "Lionness Awaiting or Awaking" in the future.
To be honest, I'm so stressed with homework, getting caught up with everything we've missed the past week. I'm just praying and know God will work it out. i'm currently looking at some of the Roman Road scriptures, especially Romans 11:36. I think God pointed this verse out to me because of the MCIN conference. God has shown me throughout the conference/ trip that family is so important. Not only family but knowing "that God will work everything for the good of those who LOVE him and are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). God has definately pointed out Romans 8:28, family, and Jeremiah 29:11 out to me just about every day of this trip. Though I love my family and miss them, I think this was showing me to forgive and let go on certain aspects. Romans 8:28 was showing me that everything will and can work out but to trust in God's grace, mercy, and love. We need to give grace. God has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11).
God is UNLIMITED! God gives us grace...it is unlimited. He gives us mercy...it is unlimited. His LOVE is unilimited. We need to learn an believe and have faith. We need to start paying attention to our dreams and visions. Looking at what God has destined for you us is so important to do. My innovation and creativity is mostly in music but I always want to expand that. When God speaks, he creates. Something we need to know is that the ONLY thing on the earth that is unlimited are DISCIPLES OF CHRIST!
This is why we need missionaries in the world. It says in the Bible that we are to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Relationships with people and especially God are so important. Do you know where you're at on the relationship scale with people? With God? People tend to go with the worldly views on relationships but to get the true information on it, you need to look in the Bible and at God's love for us (John 3:16). We should also not be having excuses for everything. Every human has an excuse for everything. What do excuses really do? People need to learn to just say how something really is and flow with it. I know I tend to have too many excuses at times. That is something i'm trying to work on now since hearing that sermon.
Are you only limited to changing the world for yourself, trying to receive grace, mercy and love or will you let God expand you? If we let him expand our horizons, we can preach his word to all nations and share his grace, mercy, and love. Where or who are you committed to? Where or who is your covenant in? I've committed these 9 months and the rest of my life into a covenant with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We learned about fearing God. "It's not about fearing God but being away from him" ~ John Bevere. I loved how John Bevere said some quote by C.S. Lewis and I missed it. No, really I was upset about that but will be doing research on it soon! Live the extraordinary life. I've learned that I need to ask these three questions to myself a little bit more. Why have you come here? (John 6:10-15). What do you want to see? (Matthew 11:7-9). Where are you willing to go? (Matthew 10:37-39).
So, will you do whatever it takes to go UNLIMITED?
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
When we got to Tulsa, we stayed at Heather Bryant's house, hanging out with her and her roommate. We were able to have fun getting to know a past GMC student, seeing old friends (Jaclyn and Josh), went out to see the movie "Red" and went to the local Steak'n Shake restaraunt. Tulsa just brought back so many fun memories from our October trip to there. Tulsa may be flat, no mountains but it is so beautiful out there. I don't necessarily like cities but Tulsa is definately a place I want to move to in the future. I'm so excited to be helping out our Freedom Valley Church Tulsa church plant.
We hit the road and then went to Texas. We arrived to our hotel Saturday afternoon, StudioPlus right beside the famous SixFlags amusement park. Though it was cold in Tulsa, Dallas, Texas was a different story. The weather was so beautiful! Our first night there, we went into the city and spent time with Lance, Daniel, and Lance's friend. We all went out to walk around and ate dinner at some kareoke Texas pitbeef bbq place. That was like a cultural experience for me because I never had tht kind of food before. We actually ate at many different restaraunts that were cultural experiences for me. We went to a chinese place, mexican place, the famous pizza hut, etc. The food was ok but not the best part.
Before we really did anything, obviously we went to church. The one highlight of my week was going to Gateway Church (Kari Jobe's church)!!! I was so excited to be there even though she was on tour at the time. I'm so glad we were able to just praise and worship God there, going back into singing old hymns such as "Blessed Assurance". We went to some church for the womans conference and then attended RealLife Church for the MC conference.
We spent time at the Bloom Conference with Lisa Bevere and the Masters Commission International Network Conference with John Bevere, Frontline Worship and many other speakers. We met other masters students, heard fantastic "sermons" and spent time taking hilarious pictures and video which anyone who reads this will not be seeing. So many great memories. Lisa Bevere really preached on Proverbs 31 and being a Lioness. Being a Lionness is so important because as that, women are so strong, more then what everyone thinks. I'm really hoping to read her book "Lionness Awaiting or Awaking" in the future.
To be honest, I'm so stressed with homework, getting caught up with everything we've missed the past week. I'm just praying and know God will work it out. i'm currently looking at some of the Roman Road scriptures, especially Romans 11:36. I think God pointed this verse out to me because of the MCIN conference. God has shown me throughout the conference/ trip that family is so important. Not only family but knowing "that God will work everything for the good of those who LOVE him and are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). God has definately pointed out Romans 8:28, family, and Jeremiah 29:11 out to me just about every day of this trip. Though I love my family and miss them, I think this was showing me to forgive and let go on certain aspects. Romans 8:28 was showing me that everything will and can work out but to trust in God's grace, mercy, and love. We need to give grace. God has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope and a future (Jer. 29:11).
God is UNLIMITED! God gives us grace...it is unlimited. He gives us mercy...it is unlimited. His LOVE is unilimited. We need to learn an believe and have faith. We need to start paying attention to our dreams and visions. Looking at what God has destined for you us is so important to do. My innovation and creativity is mostly in music but I always want to expand that. When God speaks, he creates. Something we need to know is that the ONLY thing on the earth that is unlimited are DISCIPLES OF CHRIST!
This is why we need missionaries in the world. It says in the Bible that we are to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Relationships with people and especially God are so important. Do you know where you're at on the relationship scale with people? With God? People tend to go with the worldly views on relationships but to get the true information on it, you need to look in the Bible and at God's love for us (John 3:16). We should also not be having excuses for everything. Every human has an excuse for everything. What do excuses really do? People need to learn to just say how something really is and flow with it. I know I tend to have too many excuses at times. That is something i'm trying to work on now since hearing that sermon.
Are you only limited to changing the world for yourself, trying to receive grace, mercy and love or will you let God expand you? If we let him expand our horizons, we can preach his word to all nations and share his grace, mercy, and love. Where or who are you committed to? Where or who is your covenant in? I've committed these 9 months and the rest of my life into a covenant with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We learned about fearing God. "It's not about fearing God but being away from him" ~ John Bevere. I loved how John Bevere said some quote by C.S. Lewis and I missed it. No, really I was upset about that but will be doing research on it soon! Live the extraordinary life. I've learned that I need to ask these three questions to myself a little bit more. Why have you come here? (John 6:10-15). What do you want to see? (Matthew 11:7-9). Where are you willing to go? (Matthew 10:37-39).
So, will you do whatever it takes to go UNLIMITED?
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Thursday, February 10, 2011
A Purpose Driven Season/Life with God
Looking back to my past few days and during class I there is a good question of..."What is God like?"
When we talked about the human machine, I was like...huh? Well our notes say that when human individual drifts apart from one anoter or collide into each other and when things go wrong inside the individual.
Talking about morality was interesting. With individuals there is fair play and then there's harmony. Tidying up is more of a personal aassessment. My favorite part of looking into is made for or what our purpose is.
-Our purpose in life is so important and essential to living. When trying to figure out what our purpose is in life, we can't look to other people for that answer. I've been learning more and more that I can't look to people to find my purpose in life but look to God. Sometimes I still don't know what my purpose is in places or with people, but that's when we need to talk to God and ask him what the reason is.
**What I do know is that my purpose or mission here on earth, here at GMC, is to have faith, living my life for the one true God the Father, leading the example of Jesus Christ to show others to the Lord, building their faith through the seven fruits of the spirit, music, praising/praying, fasting and worshipping him.
-Sometimes we really do need a day off, even if we don't think so (Sabbath Day). Also what I learned from this past class is that we need to always have courage in order to do things in life.
I know that i've sometimes had a problem with the nice or honest issue. I always want to be honest in telling someone something but if it's going to hurt their feelings, I don't know which way to go. People worry about their weight/ apperance, the way the lifestyle is. Everyone should take a look at Proverbs 9. And we all need to know that God is our LANDLORD!
"He is responsible to me and i'm responsible to him." We all need to be worthy Christians and it's so important." Also we need to learn to value people more than things in life and more so God. Some of the most valuable things in life can't be bought!"
Cardinal Virtues- prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
~Key Hinge: prudence (common sense), temperance (abstinence), justice (fairness), and fortitude (guts) is so important to have. Every person in the world should have these virtues and like the best to their ability that God gave them.
~Broken Hinge: are the truth that right actions done for wrong reasons and thinking God simply wanted us to have a set of rules just for a certain type of person.
**There is this saying we learned in Leadership which is to follow your character ethic, not just personality ethic**
*Also i'm really hoping to see that movie The Social Network because the movie looks so interesting. What makes the trailor interesting is the fact that the guy in the movie is "socially awkward" but creates this networking site. How does this make sense? People need to learn however that our worth is not the internet, games or phones, but we live our life and what we do with that.*
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
When we talked about the human machine, I was like...huh? Well our notes say that when human individual drifts apart from one anoter or collide into each other and when things go wrong inside the individual.
Talking about morality was interesting. With individuals there is fair play and then there's harmony. Tidying up is more of a personal aassessment. My favorite part of looking into is made for or what our purpose is.
-Our purpose in life is so important and essential to living. When trying to figure out what our purpose is in life, we can't look to other people for that answer. I've been learning more and more that I can't look to people to find my purpose in life but look to God. Sometimes I still don't know what my purpose is in places or with people, but that's when we need to talk to God and ask him what the reason is.
**What I do know is that my purpose or mission here on earth, here at GMC, is to have faith, living my life for the one true God the Father, leading the example of Jesus Christ to show others to the Lord, building their faith through the seven fruits of the spirit, music, praising/praying, fasting and worshipping him.
-Sometimes we really do need a day off, even if we don't think so (Sabbath Day). Also what I learned from this past class is that we need to always have courage in order to do things in life.
I know that i've sometimes had a problem with the nice or honest issue. I always want to be honest in telling someone something but if it's going to hurt their feelings, I don't know which way to go. People worry about their weight/ apperance, the way the lifestyle is. Everyone should take a look at Proverbs 9. And we all need to know that God is our LANDLORD!
"He is responsible to me and i'm responsible to him." We all need to be worthy Christians and it's so important." Also we need to learn to value people more than things in life and more so God. Some of the most valuable things in life can't be bought!"
Cardinal Virtues- prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
~Key Hinge: prudence (common sense), temperance (abstinence), justice (fairness), and fortitude (guts) is so important to have. Every person in the world should have these virtues and like the best to their ability that God gave them.
~Broken Hinge: are the truth that right actions done for wrong reasons and thinking God simply wanted us to have a set of rules just for a certain type of person.
**There is this saying we learned in Leadership which is to follow your character ethic, not just personality ethic**
*Also i'm really hoping to see that movie The Social Network because the movie looks so interesting. What makes the trailor interesting is the fact that the guy in the movie is "socially awkward" but creates this networking site. How does this make sense? People need to learn however that our worth is not the internet, games or phones, but we live our life and what we do with that.*
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Our Purpose Driven Life/ Season With God
~What is God Like? "In a good many people's minds: something that interferes, that stops you from having a good time."
"the instructor who keeps saying no, not like that"
~The Human Machine
1. When human individual drifts apart from one another, or collide into each other (cheating/bullying)
2. When things go wrong inside the individual (internal conflict)
Important Question?
~Morality
1. Fair Play & Harmony (w/ individuals)
2. Personal Assessment (tidying up)
3. What is Our Purpose (made for)
~What question sets us apart?
Mere Christianity pgs. 99 & 100 (72&73)
-Sometimes we really do need a day off, even when we think we don't. (Sabbath Day)
-Every fight that happens, goes to a level of selfishness
-We need to always have courage in order to do things
*Nice or Honest??
-weight/apperance
-advice (Proverbs 9)
-lifestyle
*God is our LANDLORD
-he is responsible to me, i'm responsible to him
*Being a worthy Christian is so important!!!
people/things
we need to value the people more than other things.
*Some of the most valuable things in life can't be bought.
~Cardinal Virtues...
*prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
~Key Hinge (cardinal)
-Prudence (common sense) taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it. A child's heart & an adult's head/ Faith like a child/ harmless as doves, wise as serpents
-Tempeance (abstinence) going the right length and no furter. One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing w/o wanting everyone else to give it up.
-Justice (fairness) honesty, give & take, truthfulness, keeping promises.
-Fortitude (guts) two types of courage: the kind that faces danger & sticks it out during pain. You cannot practice any virtue unless you have courage
~Broken Hinges (cardinal)
*The truth that right actions done for the wrong reasons (or vice versa) do not help, to build the internal quality or character called a virtue.
*To think that God wanted simply obediene to set of rules/ meaning he wants a certain type of person.
*Virtues only necessary only for this present life, the point is that if people have not gat at least the beginnings of those qualities (i.e. character) inside them, then no possible external conditions could make a 'Heaven' for them.
(not just how it affects me now but in the whole scheme of things)
~Social morality:
*the movie Social Network - finding your place in life. Sometimes people create things to be social because we aren't social...then we have to much pride
(our worth is not in facebook or blinking lights)
~A Few Things (social)
"Do As you would be done by."
*First Thing: Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality
*Second Thing: Christianity has not and does not profess to have, a detailed political program for applying, to a particular society at a particular moment.
**Christianity is not a political machine**
*Third Thing: Cheerful society: full of singing, rejoicing and regarding worry or anxiety as wrong. NT hates busybodies
**As Christians, there doesn't have to be an acting fake being happy at work. We need to work on a level of no matter how things get, stay as positive as can be**
*Fourth Thing: *Charging interest
**Even when you are in fault, don't bring up the other person's faults**
*Fifth Thing: Charity- giving to the poor. Insecurity is the greatest of fear of why we do not give.
**We need to learn to trust in what to help out with**
Gabe Lyons:
"The Next Christians" How a New Generation is Restoring Their Faith
What's Wrong With Today's Christians = youtube video
~Morality Psychoanalysis (choices)
*We make many choices every day that shape us.
*A million little choices
~Choices
*Moral Choice: Two Parts
1. The Act of Choosing
2. Raw Material of Choice (i.e. feelings, impulses the root)
*Another Example:
Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less" Monty Python And The Holy Grail - The Black Knight scene
**The fact is, when things aren't alright, we say we are but really aren't. We need to fix and sympothize in that. Be there and address those things for other people even when you don't need it. Help tidy up someones feelings though you want to do your own thing. We go together or we go alone**
**Ask God for help when you need/want it**Don't be selfish.**We are to humble ourselves and help those around us out**
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
"the instructor who keeps saying no, not like that"
~The Human Machine
1. When human individual drifts apart from one another, or collide into each other (cheating/bullying)
2. When things go wrong inside the individual (internal conflict)
Important Question?
~Morality
1. Fair Play & Harmony (w/ individuals)
2. Personal Assessment (tidying up)
3. What is Our Purpose (made for)
~What question sets us apart?
Mere Christianity pgs. 99 & 100 (72&73)
-Sometimes we really do need a day off, even when we think we don't. (Sabbath Day)
-Every fight that happens, goes to a level of selfishness
-We need to always have courage in order to do things
*Nice or Honest??
-weight/apperance
-advice (Proverbs 9)
-lifestyle
*God is our LANDLORD
-he is responsible to me, i'm responsible to him
*Being a worthy Christian is so important!!!
people/things
we need to value the people more than other things.
*Some of the most valuable things in life can't be bought.
~Cardinal Virtues...
*prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
~Key Hinge (cardinal)
-Prudence (common sense) taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it. A child's heart & an adult's head/ Faith like a child/ harmless as doves, wise as serpents
-Tempeance (abstinence) going the right length and no furter. One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing w/o wanting everyone else to give it up.
-Justice (fairness) honesty, give & take, truthfulness, keeping promises.
-Fortitude (guts) two types of courage: the kind that faces danger & sticks it out during pain. You cannot practice any virtue unless you have courage
~Broken Hinges (cardinal)
*The truth that right actions done for the wrong reasons (or vice versa) do not help, to build the internal quality or character called a virtue.
*To think that God wanted simply obediene to set of rules/ meaning he wants a certain type of person.
*Virtues only necessary only for this present life, the point is that if people have not gat at least the beginnings of those qualities (i.e. character) inside them, then no possible external conditions could make a 'Heaven' for them.
(not just how it affects me now but in the whole scheme of things)
~Social morality:
*the movie Social Network - finding your place in life. Sometimes people create things to be social because we aren't social...then we have to much pride
(our worth is not in facebook or blinking lights)
~A Few Things (social)
"Do As you would be done by."
*First Thing: Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality
*Second Thing: Christianity has not and does not profess to have, a detailed political program for applying, to a particular society at a particular moment.
**Christianity is not a political machine**
*Third Thing: Cheerful society: full of singing, rejoicing and regarding worry or anxiety as wrong. NT hates busybodies
**As Christians, there doesn't have to be an acting fake being happy at work. We need to work on a level of no matter how things get, stay as positive as can be**
*Fourth Thing: *Charging interest
**Even when you are in fault, don't bring up the other person's faults**
*Fifth Thing: Charity- giving to the poor. Insecurity is the greatest of fear of why we do not give.
**We need to learn to trust in what to help out with**
Gabe Lyons:
"The Next Christians" How a New Generation is Restoring Their Faith
What's Wrong With Today's Christians = youtube video
~Morality Psychoanalysis (choices)
*We make many choices every day that shape us.
*A million little choices
~Choices
*Moral Choice: Two Parts
1. The Act of Choosing
2. Raw Material of Choice (i.e. feelings, impulses the root)
*Another Example:
Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.
"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less" Monty Python And The Holy Grail - The Black Knight scene
**The fact is, when things aren't alright, we say we are but really aren't. We need to fix and sympothize in that. Be there and address those things for other people even when you don't need it. Help tidy up someones feelings though you want to do your own thing. We go together or we go alone**
**Ask God for help when you need/want it**Don't be selfish.**We are to humble ourselves and help those around us out**
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
"Break My Heart For What Breaks Yours"
Looking into my past week, it's been successful in some ways but a fail in other ways. I've now become baptized as a believer. I was baptized as a baby, was saved in June 2007 and got baptized in the Holy Spirit Jan. 22, 2011 and baptized Feb. 6, 2011. I also partnered with Freedom Valley Worship Center this past weekend! It meant so much to me, becoming part of a part to help those to get to Gods kingdom in heaven.
Theres been tons and tons of things to pray for lately. Praying for the church, trips, seminars, meetings,events, GMC as a group and individually. I believe God has blessed me by giving me the means providing for a great friend. Praying for youth has been big lately!
I know this a very short blog but this is all to put down except on last thing. A song that has come into my mind lately has Hillsongs - "hossana" the whole, "break my heart for what breaks yours" is so huge to me lately. I'm not positive what's being shown except the lyrics but it's something showing us how to live with others. Let's see what's in store for the rest of the week.
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Theres been tons and tons of things to pray for lately. Praying for the church, trips, seminars, meetings,events, GMC as a group and individually. I believe God has blessed me by giving me the means providing for a great friend. Praying for youth has been big lately!
I know this a very short blog but this is all to put down except on last thing. A song that has come into my mind lately has Hillsongs - "hossana" the whole, "break my heart for what breaks yours" is so huge to me lately. I'm not positive what's being shown except the lyrics but it's something showing us how to live with others. Let's see what's in store for the rest of the week.
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Thursday, February 3, 2011
"Fully Human, Fully God" * Drops Like Stars...by Rob Bell
Reflecting on yesterday's class, I see that we as humans think we're always alone in situations, but we aren't. Yesterday's class was nice, just sitting and watching the video however some things he said made me upset. It wasn't necessarily him that made me upset but words that I heard, that I remembered people and events such as cancer.
Cancer is a very touchy subject for me because I've had family/friends who had it/beat it, family/friends who currently have it, family who have died from it such as my Pap and my Mom. Anytime I hear the words family, mom, pap, cancer, hospital, etc I automatically get upset because I think back to them. I'm happy for them because they don't need to suffer on this earth anymore. They were always faithful and truthful to God as far as I know. I definately look up to them. I know they are in a better place but then I wonder about people who suffer and die without knowing Christ.
Once in the video we watched, there was a quote "I once was lost but now i'm found...was blind but now I see." That instantly made me think of the song "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)." I like hearing about the story of The Prodigal Son Parable . This story gives us many kinds of backgrounds such as religious, cultural, etc. We sometimes just have things unresolved. I've heard before this class that maybe things aren't resolved because that's just how God has it or maybe sometimes, maybe we just aren't ready for the answer. That brings us to the question of, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" You see we need to set aside the why and ask other questions lets just say, it happened, it's there, it's unresolved, so lets fix it.
It is, so what now?? The What (context) and The Where (content)
We always plan for tomorrow, we plan how things are supposed to be but then there's disruption. What we planned ends up being mixed up. We always tend to say we never imagined what would happen. I first heard that none get to God but through trouble. We learned about the different arts. We learned about the art of disruption, illumination, possession, etc.
There is a something about suffering that creates or brings people together that other things don't. Suffering brings us together and brings out the truth. The cross is God's way of saying that he knows how we feel with every aspect of life. When we were in this part of the video, I went on to thinking about our GMC skit..."Fully Human, Fully God" which shows us that Jesus suffered and lived just like we do. He's gone through it all and because of him, we can live.
The questions he asked with the cards...I would have stood up for half of them. When we suffer, our first instinct is to fix it now, but we can't always do that. Explanations and answers aren't exactly what hellps us to heal. Some people begin to heal just with presence and solidarity and togetherness, knowing we aren't alone. The cross speaks to us as a sort of deep primal level. God is pretty much saying to us, "I know how you feel, you are not alone."
Also something I learned from this class was that OWNERSHIP and POSSESSION are two different things. We can own and not possess and we can possess and not own. We can go through a difficult time or turn of events but there is a peace that surpasses all understanding. Even when we have "everything" doesn't mean we do. We need God. Someone could be so poor as to not having anything yet be happy because they have the Lord in their life.
"What every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential." Nothing is wasted in the divine wth God. God wastes nothing. God brings out in the old creation a new creation. Sometimes there is a blemish because they that is where the Spirit is believed to answer. "When we suffer, this, too, will shape me." We can become bitter or better. The people we look up too have also suffered but they work through it and stay positive. "Your own existence" is a work of art!"
No matter what happens, everything has meaning and everything is significant in the eyes of God. Even when things aren't going how we want them to, we much look at the positive. God is honest and truth, we need to be like him, we all have fallen short but lets work our best to live for God. "Lets see drops like stars!!!
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Cancer is a very touchy subject for me because I've had family/friends who had it/beat it, family/friends who currently have it, family who have died from it such as my Pap and my Mom. Anytime I hear the words family, mom, pap, cancer, hospital, etc I automatically get upset because I think back to them. I'm happy for them because they don't need to suffer on this earth anymore. They were always faithful and truthful to God as far as I know. I definately look up to them. I know they are in a better place but then I wonder about people who suffer and die without knowing Christ.
Once in the video we watched, there was a quote "I once was lost but now i'm found...was blind but now I see." That instantly made me think of the song "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)." I like hearing about the story of The Prodigal Son Parable . This story gives us many kinds of backgrounds such as religious, cultural, etc. We sometimes just have things unresolved. I've heard before this class that maybe things aren't resolved because that's just how God has it or maybe sometimes, maybe we just aren't ready for the answer. That brings us to the question of, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" You see we need to set aside the why and ask other questions lets just say, it happened, it's there, it's unresolved, so lets fix it.
It is, so what now?? The What (context) and The Where (content)
We always plan for tomorrow, we plan how things are supposed to be but then there's disruption. What we planned ends up being mixed up. We always tend to say we never imagined what would happen. I first heard that none get to God but through trouble. We learned about the different arts. We learned about the art of disruption, illumination, possession, etc.
There is a something about suffering that creates or brings people together that other things don't. Suffering brings us together and brings out the truth. The cross is God's way of saying that he knows how we feel with every aspect of life. When we were in this part of the video, I went on to thinking about our GMC skit..."Fully Human, Fully God" which shows us that Jesus suffered and lived just like we do. He's gone through it all and because of him, we can live.
The questions he asked with the cards...I would have stood up for half of them. When we suffer, our first instinct is to fix it now, but we can't always do that. Explanations and answers aren't exactly what hellps us to heal. Some people begin to heal just with presence and solidarity and togetherness, knowing we aren't alone. The cross speaks to us as a sort of deep primal level. God is pretty much saying to us, "I know how you feel, you are not alone."
Also something I learned from this class was that OWNERSHIP and POSSESSION are two different things. We can own and not possess and we can possess and not own. We can go through a difficult time or turn of events but there is a peace that surpasses all understanding. Even when we have "everything" doesn't mean we do. We need God. Someone could be so poor as to not having anything yet be happy because they have the Lord in their life.
"What every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential." Nothing is wasted in the divine wth God. God wastes nothing. God brings out in the old creation a new creation. Sometimes there is a blemish because they that is where the Spirit is believed to answer. "When we suffer, this, too, will shape me." We can become bitter or better. The people we look up too have also suffered but they work through it and stay positive. "Your own existence" is a work of art!"
No matter what happens, everything has meaning and everything is significant in the eyes of God. Even when things aren't going how we want them to, we much look at the positive. God is honest and truth, we need to be like him, we all have fallen short but lets work our best to live for God. "Lets see drops like stars!!!
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Class notes 2/2/11
"Drops Like Stars Tour" by Rob Bell
There are things we all need to hear.
We've been in the rooms and the hallways, going up and down. Going on an up and down rollercoaster.
~The story of the two brothers in the Bible who wanted their fathers inheritance. (Dad, I want your money and you to be dead). Prodigal Son Parable
-"You have always been with me and I never really payed attention. Everything I have is yours."
-"I once was lost but now i'm found, was blind but now I see." - Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
*This story gives us many kinds of backgrounds: religious, cultural, etc.
*We sometimes hve things unresolved. It just happens that way because God has it that was or maybe as people that's how we want it. Maybe sometimes we aren't ready for something to be resolved.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
If we set aside the why and ask other questions lets just say...it happend, it's there, it's unresolved, so lets fix it!
-The art of the disruption:
*College question answer (crazy answer)
*Ballet (instead of the program, how about a squirrel)
*City/cd thing
*Death by wallpaper and flooring story instead of diagnosed thing...etc.
It is, so what now?
-The What (the context)
-The Where (the content)
*We always plan for tomorrow...we try to plan HOW things are supposed to go but then there's a disruption. What we planned ends up not being there.
-we never IMAGINED that would happen.
**None get to God but through trouble**
-It's the ART of the DISRUPTION
*In a way, a man having everything...really doesn't have everything...the life things, the spiritual things.*
-Charity: water - "One billion people in the world don't have clean drinking water...1/6.
*This is the unexpected prodox to the thing of disruption.
*What is it that gets us to the place of honesty? to suffer/pain
-Fredrick Beacner said..."I hadn't learned yet the importance of letting the emptiness of me open up"
-When we suffer we can't go through the motions anymore.
*Pain and suffering gets us to that place of honesty...then there is this liberating freedom. the emptiness inside of us then opens up.
-The art of the disruption - "your life is not going to be how it used to be"
*None get to God but through trouble.*
-Talking about Johnny Ca$h
-he was terrified to go on stage just to play for a few people at The Viper Room in LA and he had played many times places before that. He had a whole new voice with Rick Rueban helping him. He was able to play what he wanted and with his guitar. It isn't how much you cram into a piece of work but knowing what needs to be taken away to get at the pure essence of the thing you are trying to design. ART of Elimination.
"Lust For Life" - Van Gough
The bars of soap designs...the bunny, face, chain, fish?,
*What is it about suffering that creates or brings people together that other things don't?
*We're not only. One word and there is this solidarity in the room. (Cancer)
**Suffering unites us!**
1st century cross: Roman Empire from England to India...them saying caeser is lord..not our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-Within this Roman Empire...Jesus Christ the Nazarene came in...the divine...Jesus was executed on a CROSS for our sins. (Sacrificial Love) This is the way of God. God is found here through JC and the cross is a reminder to us for that event.
-Are questions are to the divine...but the cross is God's way of saying that he knows how we feel with every aspect of life. "Fully Human, Fully God"
"I know how you feel"
1. If you have ever been to a funeral of somebody you know...hold up your card. Y
2. If whether yourself or someone close to you have suffered from an addiction...hold up your card. Y
3. If you have ever stared at a stack of bills and thought to yourself, you don't know how to make it work...hold up your card. N
4. If you have ever been betrayed...hold up your card. Y
*When we suffer, our first instinct is that we want an answer now!! But explanations and answers aren't necessarily what helps us heal. Would a person really be able to heal by having things answered?? In some peoples experience, what helps them begin to heal is presence and solidarity and togetherness, knowing you are not alone.*
-The cross speaks to us as a sort of deep primal level. A cosmic jump of iconic "God" message to us..."I know how you feel, you are not alone."
**We may own something but our friends may possess it in ways we don't.**
-Difference between OWNERSHIP and POSSESSION
*You can own something and not possess it and you can possess something and not own it.
We go through something difficult, but there is a peace that surpasses undestanding.
Life is found in possession sometimes but we can have nothing yet have everything.
THE ART OF DISRUPTION
THE ART OF ILLUMINATION
THE ART OF POSSESSION
THE ART OF ...
*What every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential."
*Nothing is wasted in the divine, with God. The God who wastes nothing.
-God brings out in the old creation a new creation. They leave a blemish because they believe that is where the Spirit answers.
*When we suffer, this, too, will shape me.* we can become bitter or we can become better, we will shut down or open up, etc. The people we look up too also have suffered and come out positively because they stay positive. "Your own existence" is a work of art
No matter what happens, everything has meaning and everything is significant in the eyes of God.
God is honest and truth!! We need to be like him, we all fall short but lets work our best.
"Lets see drops like stars, grace and peace be with you."
This is ART!!!
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
There are things we all need to hear.
We've been in the rooms and the hallways, going up and down. Going on an up and down rollercoaster.
~The story of the two brothers in the Bible who wanted their fathers inheritance. (Dad, I want your money and you to be dead). Prodigal Son Parable
-"You have always been with me and I never really payed attention. Everything I have is yours."
-"I once was lost but now i'm found, was blind but now I see." - Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
*This story gives us many kinds of backgrounds: religious, cultural, etc.
*We sometimes hve things unresolved. It just happens that way because God has it that was or maybe as people that's how we want it. Maybe sometimes we aren't ready for something to be resolved.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
If we set aside the why and ask other questions lets just say...it happend, it's there, it's unresolved, so lets fix it!
-The art of the disruption:
*College question answer (crazy answer)
*Ballet (instead of the program, how about a squirrel)
*City/cd thing
*Death by wallpaper and flooring story instead of diagnosed thing...etc.
It is, so what now?
-The What (the context)
-The Where (the content)
*We always plan for tomorrow...we try to plan HOW things are supposed to go but then there's a disruption. What we planned ends up not being there.
-we never IMAGINED that would happen.
**None get to God but through trouble**
-It's the ART of the DISRUPTION
*In a way, a man having everything...really doesn't have everything...the life things, the spiritual things.*
-Charity: water - "One billion people in the world don't have clean drinking water...1/6.
*This is the unexpected prodox to the thing of disruption.
*What is it that gets us to the place of honesty? to suffer/pain
-Fredrick Beacner said..."I hadn't learned yet the importance of letting the emptiness of me open up"
-When we suffer we can't go through the motions anymore.
*Pain and suffering gets us to that place of honesty...then there is this liberating freedom. the emptiness inside of us then opens up.
-The art of the disruption - "your life is not going to be how it used to be"
*None get to God but through trouble.*
-Talking about Johnny Ca$h
-he was terrified to go on stage just to play for a few people at The Viper Room in LA and he had played many times places before that. He had a whole new voice with Rick Rueban helping him. He was able to play what he wanted and with his guitar. It isn't how much you cram into a piece of work but knowing what needs to be taken away to get at the pure essence of the thing you are trying to design. ART of Elimination.
"Lust For Life" - Van Gough
The bars of soap designs...the bunny, face, chain, fish?,
*What is it about suffering that creates or brings people together that other things don't?
*We're not only. One word and there is this solidarity in the room. (Cancer)
**Suffering unites us!**
1st century cross: Roman Empire from England to India...them saying caeser is lord..not our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-Within this Roman Empire...Jesus Christ the Nazarene came in...the divine...Jesus was executed on a CROSS for our sins. (Sacrificial Love) This is the way of God. God is found here through JC and the cross is a reminder to us for that event.
-Are questions are to the divine...but the cross is God's way of saying that he knows how we feel with every aspect of life. "Fully Human, Fully God"
"I know how you feel"
1. If you have ever been to a funeral of somebody you know...hold up your card. Y
2. If whether yourself or someone close to you have suffered from an addiction...hold up your card. Y
3. If you have ever stared at a stack of bills and thought to yourself, you don't know how to make it work...hold up your card. N
4. If you have ever been betrayed...hold up your card. Y
*When we suffer, our first instinct is that we want an answer now!! But explanations and answers aren't necessarily what helps us heal. Would a person really be able to heal by having things answered?? In some peoples experience, what helps them begin to heal is presence and solidarity and togetherness, knowing you are not alone.*
-The cross speaks to us as a sort of deep primal level. A cosmic jump of iconic "God" message to us..."I know how you feel, you are not alone."
**We may own something but our friends may possess it in ways we don't.**
-Difference between OWNERSHIP and POSSESSION
*You can own something and not possess it and you can possess something and not own it.
We go through something difficult, but there is a peace that surpasses undestanding.
Life is found in possession sometimes but we can have nothing yet have everything.
THE ART OF DISRUPTION
THE ART OF ILLUMINATION
THE ART OF POSSESSION
THE ART OF ...
*What every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential."
*Nothing is wasted in the divine, with God. The God who wastes nothing.
-God brings out in the old creation a new creation. They leave a blemish because they believe that is where the Spirit answers.
*When we suffer, this, too, will shape me.* we can become bitter or we can become better, we will shut down or open up, etc. The people we look up too also have suffered and come out positively because they stay positive. "Your own existence" is a work of art
No matter what happens, everything has meaning and everything is significant in the eyes of God.
God is honest and truth!! We need to be like him, we all fall short but lets work our best.
"Lets see drops like stars, grace and peace be with you."
This is ART!!!
Caitlyn A. Inman
Gettysburg Masters Commission student'10-11
Elevate Leadership Ministry School
Freedom Valley Worship Center
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