I'm thankful for this week's teaching about Culture from our speaker, Jeremy. is important. It's the center of who we are. It has shaped how our parents raised us and ultimately live out our lives. It is important to understand one another's culture as it can be a tool used to share the Gospel with others. It's crazy to me how much culture influences our faith and how it has changed dramatically. I think it is important to know the history behind our culture and how it has affected the church. I think that the Church believes it needs to be separate from the world, but I don't think that is right. I mean, Jesus was right in the middle of "sinners" during his time on earth. His heart was to bring relationship between him and others. To be in the world, not of it. I have a friends who want to impacted the "secular" world with the love of Christ. I think that's amazing. We are created to bring glory to God's name as well as share this glory with all the world. That starts with understanding the culture of those we are called to share with.
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| Compassion Discipleship Training School (CDTS) 2017 |
This week, the Compassion students returned from their outreach. These are the students that I had the privilege to staff in the Winter quarter. They had a week of debrief and it was so good to be with them and see how they have grown over their outreach. Today (Saturday) they graduated. I am so proud of them! They have grown so much in their understanding in who God is, who they are, and how to share Him with others. They are such world changers and I can not to see where God takes them next.
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My lovely small group!
(From the left: Kaylin, Me, Jael, Catherine, and Megan) |
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