A New Start - January 1, 2012

I've been slacking off this past month.  I fell off the wagon, but now I'm back. I believe my sudden stop to blogging began when my latest endeavour into reproductive medicine started again.  I am currently in my 2nd IUI cycle.  Based on sheer probability, I do not believe I will be pregnant this month.  It would be a true act of God.  My husband now believes God is telling him to give up...

We had a great sermon by Dr. Ross Hastings today. We are no longer a nation that should be sending out missionaries to Africa and China for there are more Christians per capita there than there are Christians in Canada.  We need missionaries here.  More and more people are turning away from God, leaving the Church, in search of their own independent freedom and materialistic desires.  We are fighting a new war... we asking people to be selfless, when all they know how to do is be SELFISH. We are living in a "post-Christian" era.

People no longer go to Church to see Jesus and feel God.  They go to Church and evaluate them, essentially shopping for the "best" Church... I am not stranger to this as this is what I did... As Christians we acknowledge God's forgiveness of our sins through salvation. God enters into us as the Holy Spirit and will transform us. We will harbour a new identity which will lead to suffering when we go and represent God. But this is the righteous path, one that has confirmed what I have been doing as a teacher these past few years.

We are to fulfill God's mandate, not just to love our neighbour and make new disciples, but more importantly to follow up with God's mandate to Adam, TAKE CARE OF THIS PLACE, God's creation... we need to bring people back to God and away from the selfish modern thinking ways of the "Western" world.

Matthew 1:1-17
A Record of Jesus' Ancestors
This is a passage listing the lineage of Jesus, from Abraham to Kind David to him. This is to validate the prophecy that our Messiah was a decedent of King David. 

Romans 1:1-7
Greetings from Paul
"Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority to tell Gentiles everywhere, what God has done for them, so they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name." (5)

This is my reminder to treat my class as my mission field.  Some go to Church, but many don't. Many do not know of the real love of Jesus.  They just know of him as a religious figure that was born on Christmas day.  There are a few who do not celebrate Christmas because they are of a different faith. My task is to bring them the good news of Christ in a non-threatening way and to have them follow God's mandate to save our planet from ourselves...