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Stephen Rigg
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Islam and the 1040 Window, Our Mission?
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As I follow the 1040window.org prayer calender and learn more about Indonesia and the 1040 window in general. I am finding a common thread. Islam has spread through much if not most of the 1040…Continue
Tags: Complacency, Avatar, Pocahontas, Animism, Missions
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen Rigg Oct 12, 2010.
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Worship
I did something tonight I have not done for a long time, if ever. Instead of just praying on my bed or kneeling by the bed, I decided I needed to humble myself and get down on the floor on my face, prostrate before the Lord. I believe I need to take that position more frequently. I searched "worship" on biblegateway.com the other night, and almost every verse I saw pertaining to worship involved people falling to the ground, face down to worship the Lord. I got to thinking about what we have…
ContinuePosted on December 22, 2010 at 2:39am — 1 Comment
A quote from "Pagan Christianity"
One of my favorite lines from the Viola/Barna book "Pagan Christianity" is:
I am not glorying in this line, I just feel that it hits the nail on the head. I believe that it, along with the Herculean grip of tradition, is one of… Continue
"To use a biblical metaphor, present day Christian education, whether it be seminarian or Bible college, is serving food from the wrong tree: the tree of knowledge of good and evil rather than the tree of life."
I am not glorying in this line, I just feel that it hits the nail on the head. I believe that it, along with the Herculean grip of tradition, is one of… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2010 at 12:50am — 9 Comments
Halfway Through Pagan Christianity
Greetings fellow members,
I wanted to give a quick update. I have been quite busy, getting ready for a community wiener roast that happened this evening here in my little town. It was the first one we have had, I am on the board of the Neighborhood watch that we just started up this year, it was one of our functions. It was not very well attended, but the crowd that was there had a great time, and I am getting to know people in the community better, which is a good thing. There are… Continue
I wanted to give a quick update. I have been quite busy, getting ready for a community wiener roast that happened this evening here in my little town. It was the first one we have had, I am on the board of the Neighborhood watch that we just started up this year, it was one of our functions. It was not very well attended, but the crowd that was there had a great time, and I am getting to know people in the community better, which is a good thing. There are… Continue
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 12:59am
Out Here On My Own
Well,
My family is not really up to being the church. They seem content going to "church" once a week. I am kind of discouraged, not really surprised, but discouraged a little. They all have had going to "church" ingrained in them. A week ago Sunday when we had our gathering and I introduced them to the idea of simple church, it seemed very promising. We had a good gathering for the most part. I did kind of get the sense from them that they understood it would require a little more… Continue
My family is not really up to being the church. They seem content going to "church" once a week. I am kind of discouraged, not really surprised, but discouraged a little. They all have had going to "church" ingrained in them. A week ago Sunday when we had our gathering and I introduced them to the idea of simple church, it seemed very promising. We had a good gathering for the most part. I did kind of get the sense from them that they understood it would require a little more… Continue
Posted on October 19, 2010 at 8:10pm — 11 Comments
Comment Wall (19 comments)
- At 8:49pm on October 13, 2010,
Jim London said…
- Hi, Stephen. Listened to some songs in the list on your page this evening, and was glad to hear a number that were prayer-songs for me in the past. Tonight, my heart longed with the voice in "Hear us from Heaven". Will have to find that box in the storage room where those 90's CD's are waiting to be heard again! Thanks for posting them. They are prayers and testimonies for the Body.
- At 11:26am on October 15, 2010,
- Stephen, I wrote to you on my blog post about "What to do if ..." You might not have seen it before it slid off the site main page. Copied below:
You acknowledge that, "I can be quite impatient. Because of my impatience, I can at times be overzealous." That has been one of my struggles as well -- to be attentive to what God is doing in people's hearts, and giving opportunity for that to be nurtured, rather than trying to accelerate things out of eagerness for His purposes to be promoted. I think, for me, it's been a matter of learning to trust God, rest in Him. But trusting and resting in Him is not being passive toward people, but rather being active in attentiveness, praying, nurturing what seems to be taking root, experimenting by opening doors, being readily available, etc. There are times when there are spurts of seemingly quick progress, and then times of wondering if anything is happening. My wife and I also believe that there is great wisdom and strength in being partnered with others in functioning this way. We had to wait a while (over 2 years!) for that to emerge with the young family with whom we have integrated our lives. The botttom line seems to be that patience is necessary for the right kind of things to develop faster! Staying in that mode is not easy for me either, but God has shared more of Himself with me than I believe would have happened if I was operating more out of my own bright ideas and willing energy. We carry the perspective that God is ALWAYS active toward people to turn their hearts toward Himself, and to bring them into the maturity of Christ, so that He is demonstrated in them. The trick is to let that perspective carry us!
For what this is worth, I'd offer the encouragement to nurture or move within a natural social circle, but invest more in a couple of friendships, and stay for the long haul with them, while at the same time learning to listen to Him and being personally obedient to EVERYTHING that He conveys to you.
- At 4:09am on October 16, 2010,
The Boyce family said… - Stephen, as a senior project for the photo-journalism school at UNC, a student spent time with us and took this photos. She did an awesome job! Thank you!
- At 11:03am on October 17, 2010,
Victor A Counted said… - thank you Stephen!
- At 9:34am on October 21, 2010,
Katie Driver said… - Stephen - thanks for sharing your own example. I wonder if you'd put it up as a comment on the blog post itself because it is such a good every day life illustration. I think it would be a great thought provoker for folks.
- At 12:46pm on October 28, 2010,
Joe Brooks said… - Hi Stephen, nice to meet you! Hope you are having a great day. I am guessing you have a home church you are involved with? Please tell me how it is going for you.
- At 8:08am on October 30, 2010, Joe Brooks said…
- Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I have been where you are. Don't think that a home church has to be huge though, I have been meeting with the same 6 - 10 people in our homes for the past 6 years now. We have really got to know one another and minister to one others needs on a very frequent basis. We have become family which is the way it should be I think. We also know other believers who are in other small groups and we get together in larger groups once in awhile.
We are trying to plant more small groups here in the Atlanta area now and we created a website to help support new groups and members and connect us all on the web. I don't know if you took a look at it or not but the site is http://www.icf-atl.info
Feel free to check it out if you like, maybe it will give you some more ideas about how and where you can best serve God.
Keep in touch and God bless!
- At 7:09pm on November 6, 2010,
Ryan Spear said… - The idea of a "Simple Church" from the name of this site led to the "Church of One". Got to start somewhere. Loners aren't lost sheep, wandered away from the flock because of physical position from a group attending a church. I've been wandered from God while being a faithfull attendee of church. With God, it's a heart matter but we easily get caught up on the physical aspects of things.
- At 9:17pm on December 5, 2010,
Rev. John Babu Rao Galinki said… - Dear Honor,
Greetings to you in Jesus powerful name.
Thank you very much for your great encouragement here in the things of God.
I am very happy to make friendship with you by simple church sign up. And good and blessing to have your fellowship. Please encourage and extend your joy with me to take the Gospel to most unreached. Please pray for my Hindu idol worship people to saving Christ. I am very interesting and my vision is for church planting. For this I need some training section for my people to get and make evangelist to send them out for planting. Please pray for it in your schedule.
Thanking you.
PS> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2011.
John & Priscilla.
www.yahweh2008.blogspot.com
www.harvest 2009.blogspot.com
email: jbreasonilive@gmail.com
- At 9:19pm on December 5, 2010, Rev. John Babu Rao Galinki said…
- please pray for children home.
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