July 8, 2013
Dear Family,
This past week we spent a day
training and talking through what we are calling Gospel Fluency. We talked through a passage in Ephesians
4 that talks about speaking the Truth in love to each other so that we may
build up the Body. We see that the Truth it is talking about is actually Jesus,
and so we are to be speaking Jesus to each other. Speaking Jesus to each other?
That sounds trippy. What I mean by this is simply preaching the Gospel to each
other, proclaiming the Good News, continually reminding each other of what
Jesus has accomplished and done, and pointing everything in our lives back to
Jesus. What does that look like?
(I will only write a little, but there is heaps I could say) One thing we
talked through is how we need to continue evangelizing to each other. We seem
to have things set up where we evangelize (tell people about the grace filled
good news) to not yet believing people, but once they come to believe we stop
evangelizing (telling each other about the grace filled good news) to one
another. I don’t know about you but I can relate to this. If we are not
continually pointing and preaching the good news to each other than what are we
speaking to each other, and what are we pointing each other to for
transformation to a life of following Jesus? We cannot grow anyone up in Christ
apart from speaking Christ to them.
It
was a shorter week for me, Thursday I drove an hour to be with some friends
because a good friend got married Saturday. This was just an amazing time being
with some really close friends of mine. It also was especially sweet just
seeing Jesus all over and through the life of my friend and his new bride. It
was an amazing weekend for me just praising Jesus for all of that!
As
far as prayer: If you could pray that the Spirit would help me to process well
the things we have been learning. There is so much information we have taken in
and I really want to process it well.
Thanks for all your support and prayers!
Peace,
Shannon
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