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Theme: Taking practical stepsBelow are suggestions provided by members of the Color Your World community for Week 5 Color Your World Campaign Worship Music. If you have a suggestion or a comment to add, please post it at the bottom of the page. We'd love to hear from you!
Theme: Enhancing the health of our churchBelow are suggestions provided by members of the Color Your World community for Week 4 Color Your World Campaign Worship Music. If you have a suggestion or a comment to add, please post it at the bottom of the page. We'd love to hear from you!
Theme: Experiencing 'all by itself' growth Below are suggestions provided by members of the Color Your World community for Week 3 Color Your World Campaign Worship Music. If you have a suggestion or a comment to add, please post it at the bottom of the page. We'd love to hear from you!
Theme: Reflecting all of God's love Below are suggestions provided by members of the Color Your World community for Week 2 Color Your World Campaign Worship Music. If you have a suggestion or a comment to add, please post it at the bottom of the page. We'd love to hear from you!
In the book 'Color Your World with Natural Church Development' is a Color Profile Test for determining your growth starting point on the journey to a fuller experience of God.
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In a few weeks time, I’m due to become an uncle for the 13th time. My future nephew has been enjoying a suspended state in amniotic fluid for almost 9 months.
Theme: Learning from the whole family of GodBelow are suggestions provided by members of the Color Your World community for Week 1 Color Your World Campaign Worship Music. If you have a suggestion or a comment to add, please post it at the bottom of the page. We'd love to hear from you!
Name in Full : Andrew Buhm-yong Park
Address : 267-111 ShinJang-1-Dong,
Pyungtag-Si, Kyunggi-Do, 459-122
R.O.K :
Educational Background :
B.A., Chong Shin Theological College
M. Div., Hapdong Theological Seminary
Th. M., Asian Center for Theological Studies and Missions
D. Min. candidate, Regent University School of Divinity
Church Background :
Served as Moderator of Suwon Presbytery
Served as General Secretary of Pioneer Mission Society
Served as Missionary to China
Served as Moderator of Korean Presbyterian Church
Speaker of Pyungtag CBMC
Week 5 – Taking Practical Steps
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My wife, my children and I are in the car going for a drive. My children are continuously asking, “are we there yet?”. Often it goes something like… Toilet stops, food stops, toilet stops, leg stretch stops, swapping seats stops, toilet swaps…
Zach is often disinterested from the start, preferring to keep to himself by reading something, listening to music, or even going to sleep.
Noah will be observing things – taking notice of what’s happening both in the car and outside the car. He’ll often be considerate of others needs in the car willing to prioritise others over himself.
Parable as metaphor: Just like the wineskins, when there is no elasticity, we, as individuals, become hard and unusable… Rigidity, personally, or corporately, will stifle growth.
Today we will look at when Churches become hard and unusable…two classic examples most of us have seen have been the conservative/charismatic debate…”My way or the highway” mentality…
The Origins of Rigidity
As we continue in a particular denomination long enough, it usually ‘shapes’ us to our detriment. What should happen is that God gets ‘bigger’; in other words, we experience all the grace and wonderment of what God intended, rather than the narrow, unbalanced view of some denominations. Often it’s not a case of being wrong, they are simply incomplete.
It sometimes amazes me to what length people will go, to not feel pain. Often the ‘solution’ is also the problem, with the same old pattern repeating itself over and over. At the heart of this is rigid thinking, which in children creates safety and certainty. However in adults, it continues to our detriment.
Here’s one example of how we go around in circles – we usually keep trying one approach to our problem – over and over. In other words, it’s a very imbalanced approach. We just can’t see what we’re doing wrong sometimes, often because we have a resistance to new ideas, experiences, and input – there’s no elasticity either for self or as a Church… - both become hard and unusable…
I've put together an example of a Color Your World Teams' Gathering Outline.
Quoting from the Color Your World Pastor Workbook Checklist (page 37)...
"Sometime during the 3 weeks before the Color Your World theme weeks begin is an ideal time to bring together the Structures Team, Worship Team, the Small Group Leaders and their Cycle Teams, your own Pastor Cycle Team and any Other Teams you have formed. This gathering would be a time of sharing ideas across the teams, understanding each other's Color Position, and unifying the leadership prior to Color Your World..."
My name is Justin, and I have been asked by Reverend Beverly to share with you today a personal journey to Christ, and through Christ, God. I say personal deliberately, for of course my journey and my conclusions because of this journey are my own. I would never expect these to be shared by all of you, nor would ask any of you who hear (read) them to walk the path I have walked to reach these conclusions.
The beginning of this path that I’ve walked started when I was baptized and confirmed in my home church, the Church of the Holy Apostles. I was fifteen then, and angry, very angry over what had happened thus far in my life. I had thought that God would show me the way to ease that anger, thought that if I proclaimed the Holy Spirit as my guide, Christ as my savior, and God as my True Father, that the Father would immediately give my life the grace I so desired. I thought that no work on my part greater than my baptism and confirmation would have to take place for this grace to be given by God.
Questions to ask before you introduce a new song to your church Our Campaign worship cycle team met last Sunday and as a result of us testing our perceptions with one another, we realised that one of the greatest barriers to music helping people to worship God, was the 'sing
Since it is called an NCD Church Survey, the answer to the question “whose survey results are they?” would seem obvious. “They are the results for our church!” In a sense this is true, but in the ‘Understand’ stage of the cycle, clarity about the specific human face of the results will have a dramatic impact on how well you use your time and energy in the ‘Plan’ and ‘Do’ stages and your rate of progress in quality and therefore quantity increase.
Every group in the world has within it a hierarchy of influence. Whether it be a Sunday School class, a family, a workplace team or even a terrorist cell, when people gather in a group for any purpose, a pecking order of influence over the group exists.
It is my plan to contribute sermons for the 5 weeks of the campaign. As a result, I thought that it would be helpful to share a couple of points connected with my sermon blogs, as you prepare yourself to speak God’s word into the lives of people in your congregation through the weekly sermons.
The purpose of my blogged campaign sermons are to:
To gain insight on how I perceive the role of this sermon, please see Perspectives on Color Your World Sermons
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We were all baptised by one Spirit into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Now the body is not made up of one part but many.
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