When did you last feel fully alive?
Explore, Ottery St Mary Parish Church
How has our journey through the 6’M’s of this series, helped us to see our frontlines, ourselves and God differently?
How can we ensure that what we have learned has an on-going impact upon our lives?
Where next? Continue reading “The Journey On”
This Sunday helps us to grow in confidence and intentionality in sharing the good news of Jesus with those on our frontlines.
You may not get an opportunity every day, or even every month, but ask God who he might want you to pray for. Continue reading “How might I be a messenger of the Gospel on my frontline?”
There will be times when being a disciple means speaking up against things that are unfair, unhealthy or untruthful, and speaking up for things that are true and just and good.
It takes courage, wisdom and prayer.
Culture is ‘the way we do things round here’.
Although you may not be able to change the way your company or your gym or your Parents’ Association does things by next Monday, you may well be able to begin with a few people and a few small actions. What things bother you – and what are the values that underpin them? What could be done differently that would make it a better place for people to flourish? What would make it more like God’s will being done on earth as in heaven?
There are many ways to do this, not only in practical care and kindness for those who need it, but through the way we respond in difficult and indeed ordinary situations.
How do we engage with the check-out person, or the lonely shopper in the charity shop, or the new parent at the school gate, or do an appraisal with the other person’s long-term interests at heart, not just the company’s?
This includes both what we do and how we do it.
It means doing good work that serves other people, contributes to human flourishing and stewards creation. It means doing your tasks consciously for the Lord, in the Spirit, to His glory, seeking His wisdom, His strength and His touch.
Your best with His transforming help.
In tough times and easy ones, with difficult people and delightful people, how might you manifest the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control?
Which one is a struggle for you?
Are you praying that you grow in the Christ-likeness of your responses?
Lynn introduces our new series, Fruitfulness on the Frontline, asking the questions:
Where are my Frontlines?
Who is on my Frontline?
What would I like to achieve in this series?
For what and for whom can I start to pray?
What could be my first step?
Lynn also mentioned cards to remind us of the main points that we will be considering in this series. These will be available next Sunday:
Today at Explore, Colin introduced a new series Fruitfulness on the Frontline, discussing the concept of a frontline that will be developed throughout the series.
Click to view the Comments to read a definition of our ‘Frontline’.
Here are the three short videos he used:
Explore starts a new series Fruitfulness on the Frontline on Sunday 31 May.
It’s a horizon-expanding, spirit-lifting, liberating view of how God can and does work in and through us in our daily lives, whether we are a student or retired, at the gym or at work, at the school gate or in the supermarket.
It’s a little different, with a short video input each Sunday. Here’s a 2-minute teaser of what is coming!
