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Adjusting to Our Times. LPD Conference March 8, 2014 9:30-11:00 am Navigating our congregational churches toward making effectively making and growing disciples today and in the future. He went, even though he did not know where he was going. Heb. 11:8.
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Adjusting to Our Times • LPD Conference March 8, 2014 9:30-11:00 am • Navigating our congregational churches toward making effectively making and growing disciples today and in the future
He went, even though he did not know where he was going. Heb. 11:8 • LPD Conference March 8, 2014 9:30-11:00 am • Navigating our congregational churches toward making effectively making and growing disciples today and in the future (Acts 16:9-10 Macedonia Call – God was calling us to preach the Good News there)
Navigational Aids We must pay careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. Heb. 2:1 You Will Drift
Navigational Aids Will you Drift Away?
SandbarsYou Will Get Stuck • we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary Heb. 6:18b-19a
The Anchor for the Soul we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary Heb. 6:18b-19a
SandbarsWill Your Anchor Lead You? • we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary Heb. 6:18b-19a
Op/Port/UnityIt Takes Faith to Leave the HarbourBut we do not belong to those who shrink back (to lower one’s sails) and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. Heb. 10:39 • But we do not belong to those who shrink back (to lower one’s sails) and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. Heb. 10:39
A ship is safe in harbor,but that is not what ships are for.William Shedd (1820-1894)Will You in Faith “Go” from your Harbour? • “A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.”
Adjusting to Our TimesTack – Drift Anchor – Sandbars Harbour - Opportunity