Tilling The Soil

Well this has been a week with many answers to prayer.  We have seen a friend who we have known since 2009 choose to follow Christ.  We have seen someone with a real life struggle make great progress! and We have seen God leading people and giving them a great concern for the lost.  My prayer at the beginning of this week was, Lord we need some encouragement! I was struck by Psalm 25:10 this am, that says, all of God's paths are loving and faithful, for those who follow him.  This was definitely a confirmation of our week in seeing fruit as it is slowly revealed.  Our job is just to keep faithful to keeping our gaze straight ahead and not getting distracted by anything else.  Slowly and in God's timing will we see the fruit of all the seeds that have been planted and watered.  He is the only one who can produce authentic fruit! That will not be destroyed or change like shifting shadows.

All Things New

Well our first Sunday in 2013 we will meeting in a home. It is a rebirthing of La Conexion, our original church plant here in Mexico City.  After searching and listening to God and having a great discontent on our part for the results of the model we have been using, we feel God calling us to a different model that will promote and nourish families to grow deeply together and reach their own communities. So with almost all of our families excited to continue down the journey we have been placed on we are starting to meet in a home this week.  With a focus on the true cost of discipleship, what does it look like to be a disciple of Christ? We are convinced as a community that we are each called to be lanterns in our communities, so this is our goal not to be inward focused and so grow lethargic in our desire to grow and reach the lost.  But we want to be a community where our own spiritual growth is our commitment and our desire together, where we are open to accountability and long for spiritual renewal in our own lives.  Then we will be seen by those who live around us as a light that is shining in the darkness, that others will be drawn to looking for truth in a dark and broken world.  This is a very intentional time with a specific time period of 9-10 months of praying for the lost in our areas of influence and creating a deeper foundation for our own lives, through disciplines in our daily lives.  Then in however it plays out we will seek to become these strong lanterns in our different communities with a presence that will last bearing imperishable fruit.