Tag: Group Leader Trainings
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2010.01.21
19:32:24
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2009.12.02
19:35:55
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Thanks for being willing to work at getting people into relationships at WaterStone Community Church. Just know I am praying for you and if you need anything let me know. I believe that together we can become a church that is connected.
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2009.11.23
21:50:19
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The primary task of the church as symbolized in the figure of the lampstand is to bring the light to a world shrouded in darkness. What other function has a lamp? Responsibility for reaction to the light is not ours. In Revelation, Christ is seen standing in the midst of seven lampstands, each of which represented a living church, scrutinizing and appraising the shining of their lamp of testimony. Just as the golden candlestick was the sole means of illumination in the tabernacle, so the church is the only medium of light to a lost world. It exists to give light, and if it fails here it fails everywhere. God has made no alternative provision. But how is the church to fulfill its function? The vision supplies the secret. The church possesses no inherent lightgiving power. Though illuminating, the lampstand was not itself luminous. It could not generate light, it could only bear it. It derived its light from a source outside itself. Sourmounting the lampstand was the reservoir, always full, unfailingly pouring its supply of oil thorugh the golden pipes to the flaming lamps. The bowl in turn was kept full from the olive trees which continually poured into it a stream of golden oil. The significance of the oil is clearly indicated --"My Spirit." The church can give light only through the continual supply and enabling of the Holy Spirit. I would encourage you this week as you grow community groups in WaterStone Community Church to know that the Holy Spirit will empower you. You are not alone. The Holy Spirit will lead you and guide you. Stay filled up in God's word and prayer. It will make all the difference in the world.
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