Influencing our world

Taking a route through Daniel’s first chapter, David Stoud highlighted 5 ways we can affect out culture as a church and 6 ways we can affect it as an individual.

Most helpfully to me was the uniting of often polarised views

TOAM09, Terry Virgo

Highlights of foundational values:-

• Fundamentally a word and Spirit movement (in other words reformed & Charismatic)

Ephesians 2: people of the WORD

Our journey starts here like everyone else:

Be more like a Kid

Have you thought about what a Kid is like?

Stef liston asked us to consider that God is child like – not childish, but childlike- He asked us to consider that as children like repetition, so day in day out, God delights in his creation like he did on the first day. – Oh look there’s the sun, – see it shine, I made that, isn’t it good?

And he delights in us in the same way.

Stef suggested that there were several qualities of Children we shou

Jonah (and there was also a whale) and his BIG GOD.

God is giving a Global tug to the nations and cities. They have been his concern.

Jonah was concerned with his own response to what God was asking, yet God is concerned for people.

What right do we have to be angry about who God calls, or who he should choose to save? – Can we hear God’s heart above the bleating of our own [preference]?

Paul in Acts 18, was concerned with Corinth. A major population centre,

I think there is great confusion in the hearts and minds of Christians in the UK.

We have heard the great commandment and the great commission.

We have heard Pauls consideration to become al