Matt Bennett » vision http://mattbennett.ca Passionately Pursuing Truth Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:10:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get On The Bus http://mattbennett.ca/get-on-the-bus/ http://mattbennett.ca/get-on-the-bus/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:04:31 +0000 Matt http://mattbennett.ca/?p=443 Our church is like a bus. Recently we stopped the bus and clearly announced our direction. Some people chose to get off the bus at this point, others chose to get on. Now we are going to hit the accelerator so we can get going faster. How are we going to go faster? It is like this – I used to live in a very large city where I got around by bus. Sometimes a trip that would take 20 minutes in a car would take over an hour by bus. Why? Because of all the people on the bus who were not going the same place I was. They needed the bus to stop and let them off where they wanted to go and that delayed me getting to my destination. We are called as a church to help ordinary people become extraordinary Christians. There are only two stops on our bus route – ordinary and extraordinary. We are no longer a tour bus, but a shuttle bus. We are picking up ordinary people and speedily taking them to extraordinary Christianity, sending them off and heading back for more.

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John 5:19

Observation

Jesus did nothing of His own choosing. He only did what He saw the Father do. Anything and everything the Father does the Son does also.

Application

I am completely dependent on God to show me how to do what pleases Him. The only way I will know what to do is by watching Him. How can I do what I see Him do if I do not watch Him? I observe the Father’s actions in Jesus. I must keep my eyes on Him and then do what I see Him doing.

Prayer

Father God, thank You for the example of Jesus Christ. Thank you for revealing a key to effective ministry – doing what I see you do. I am so glad that to see Him is to see you. Give me eyes to see the real You in the Scriptures. Help me to see what you are doing today. Grant me the courage and boldness to do what I see you doing. I give you all glory, honour and praise, in Jesus’ matchless name, Amen.

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