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We showed this video during week 1 of mission month at Soulies. Sam is part of our youth community and this is his Jesus Story:
One of my presentations at National Youth Ministry Convention 2013 will be on how to train your youth community in sharing their Jesus Story. You should come!
Did you watch THE BIBLE last night on channel 9? What did you think? I thought it was great! Here is what John Dickson and Greg Clarke had to say:
As I suggested in this post, I think we have an easy opportunity to engage our community with the bible over the next month.
Who can you chat to today and bring up the bible in the conversation? Here are 3 tweets/status updates I just sent out:
Had any conversations about #TheBibleAU yet? If not, have a crack
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) July 17, 2013
#thebibleau conversation 1… Got my haircut so I could continue chatting with my barber. She watched it, good to chat! #easyconversation
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) July 17, 2013
#thebibleau conversation 2… with owner of local cafe. He didn't watch. But able to find out what he knows about Bible #easyconversation
— Dave Miers (@davemiers) July 17, 2013
If you’re interested in finding out more about the story behind the story… READ PARTS OF THE BIBLE RELEVANT TO THE SERIES HERE… Read any part of the Bible here… Read the most epic part of the story with me here.
THE BIBLE Mini Series got crazy ratings in the US when it launched on the History Channel. Apparently it’s pretty good. It’ll be premiering on channel 9 in Australia this Tuesday night at 9pm (16 July 2013). Check out this article in Eternity. Here are some resources for churches (including extended overview). And here is the channel 9 sneak-peak:
This is a great opportunity for Christians to talk about Jesus and the Bible with their neighbour. Even if you think the mini series could have been done better… still an opportunity to talk! Get on it.
Interested in finding out more about the Bible?
Go read the Bible and learn about the main character here.
The following is taken from John Stott’s The Living Church: Convictions of a lifelong pastor. The book is from 2007, but the quote is from one of Stott’s 1974 sermons.
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In the Roman Catholic Calendar All Souls Day (2 November) commemorates the souls of the faithful departed who are regarded as being in purgatory. This being so, we at All Souls are often asked why such a committed evangelical church as ours should have been thus named. The answer is not hard to find. We understand that the church founders were determined to build a church large enough to seat all the souls of the parish. Thus their resolve was not to commemorate all the souls of the dead, but rather to accommodate all the souls of the living.
The church was consecrated and opened to the public on 25 November 1824. So when the year 1974 dawned, we were anxious to mark the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the church. I was asked to preach on the nearest Sunday and to look into the future. With due apologies to Martin Luther King and his famous dream speech in Washington, D.C., I concluded my sermon with my own dream:
Next month we will be beginning a series at St Faith’s Narrabeen in Matthew 23-28. For the next few weeks we are recapping the first two thirds of the book. Today I spoke on Matthew 16. It was good to think through Jesus and the mission of the church. See below for MP3
Dave Miers Sermon on Matthew 16 JESUS BUILDS HIS CHURCH (right click etc to download)
Here is the structure:
MISSION CREEP
1) WHO IS JESUS? (Matt 16:13-16)
2) WHAT IS JESUS DOING? (Matt 16:17-20)
3) HOW DOES JESUS DO IT? (Matt 16:21-23)
4) WHAT DO WE DO? (Matt 16:24-28)
KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING