Starting Points + Plaas-werke

'Be careful how you listen, for whoever has, to him will be given more; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.' Jesus - Luke 8:18 

Vrydag 19 - Sondag 21 Okt: Van Tonder se Thabazimbi plaas
Hierdie was Kobus & Hanneke se jaarlikse uitnodiging aan KE, om skouer aan die wiel te kom sit op die plaas, ten bate van die wees-kinders wat plaas toe gaan vir kampe ens.

Woensdag 17 Oktober
Riana & Jan Grobbelaar se Lewende Woord Oos homecell in Garsfontein. Dit het begin deur God wat 'n klompie Bulgarye toe gevat het in Mei saam met KE. Dis ook Bertus se ondersteunings-groep terwyl hy in Thailand is vir sy volgende seisoen.

Starting Point: To go from Survival 2 Significnace in His Kingdom by allowing Him to use your whole life, is the road less travelled....  

Woensdagaand 19 Sept - ons stuur vir Bertus uit met 'n waarskuwing:

jy gaan vet word in Thailand boetie!

Dinsdag 16 Oktober
Die mooiste jong mense van Icon! Die getuienis was dat die Here met hierdie groepie al begin praat het oor 'n toekoms in Hom, wat vra dat hule eie drome en geld-maak moontlikhede eers opsy gesit word sodat die Koningkryk eers deur hul lewens kan vestig, waarookal Hy hulle heen sou stuur na hulle gekwalifiseer het....

die laaste 2 weeks...

Danie & Esher van Niekerk vertel by die Fellowship van die scenic route waarop God hulle nou eers neem, al was hulle sterk oppad Macedonia toe. En so word Thabazimbi GROTER op die kaart vir kinder-bediening: naweek kampe vir weeskinders by Kobus & Hanneke se plaas asook kinders met autisme waarby D&E nou betrokke gaan raak.

Indien jy sou wou plaas toe vir 'n bietjie skouer-aan-die-wiel, die komende naweek 19 - 21 Okt, bel gerus vir Hanneke vir reelings asb.
Flip se stuursel vergadering by die Brooklyn Gastehuis (a picture tells a thousand words....)

MCC (Mission Coordinating Centre) het ontmoet op 9 Okt om die struktuur verder in plek te sit. Baie lekker om weer saam met Clem en Alwyn te journey!

Bertus Martitz het Thailand toe vertrek 4 Okt, om sy TEFSOL English kurses te begin vir dievolgende 3 maande.  Volg gerus sy blog!

Saturday 6 Oktober - die hart van vrywillige diens

Remunerated Employment VS Volunteering

This is a BIG one for our discipleship process to mature sons & daughters.... 

Today, does God want of you to volunteer to work in/for His Kingdom or does He recruit you based on a remuneration employment system?

Romans 6:16 -18
¹⁶Don’t you realize that you can choose your own master? ... The one to whom you offer yourself—he will take you and be your master, and you will be his slave. ... ¹⁸And now you are free from your old master, sin; and you have become slaves to your new master, righteousness.


The Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines Volunteering as:
"to offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment" / "to give information without being asked"

Remunerated

1. To pay (a person) a suitable equivalent in return for goods provided, services rendered, or losses incurred; recompense.

2. To compensate for; make payment for: remunerated his efforts.

Employment

1. a. The act of employing. b. The state of being employed.

2. The work in which one is engaged; occupation.

3. An activity to which one devotes time.

 

We know we have been bought for a price and no longer belong to ourselves but to Him who settled our debt.  What do you think God wants in return from this covenant He extends to you?

 

Jesus gave us an indication when He qualified our giving/volunteering by our heart's attitude...

 

Hebrews 6:9 - 12

9 My friends, we are talking this way. But we are sure that you are doing those really good things that people do when they are being saved. ¹⁰ God is always fair. He will remember how you helped his people in the past and how you are still helping them. You belong to God, and he won’t forget the love you have shown his people. ¹¹ We wish that each of you would always be eager to show how strong and lasting your hope really is. ¹² Then you would never be lazy. You would be following the example of those who had faith and were patient until God kept his promise to them.

So then, what is at the heart of this great truth?

Sat 29 Sep - Fellowship by die Brooklyn Gastehuis

A very different but necessary time together.

The fellowship had a deep result because people present participated by bringing of themselves to the community's table ... the rest God did....

A paradigm shift is something you do
(after hearing, believing and responding to a new pattern / reality....)
I suppose a bit like faith & works...

PLAN puts whole body PURPOSE in place...

That's why the Kingdom journey is not about you ... even though it starts with you at first

Ephesians 4:11
Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers, ¹² so that his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong. ¹³ This will continue until we are united by our faith and by our understanding of the Son of God. Then we will be mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him.