Name: Catalina De Siena 123 - 5 11 15, 4.21 PM by sammypr07
Duration: 36 min 20 s
Description: Presentación sobre el pensamiento de Catalina de Siena en cuanto La Sangre de Cristo como el centro de la Espiritualidad Cristiana.

Presentación sobre el pensamiento de Catalina de Siena en cuanto La Sangre de Cristo como el centro de la Espiritualidad Cristiana.

Catalina De Siena 123 - 5 11 15, 4.21 PM

Yesterday we talked about "Reaching Our Goals."  Not only I wanted to encourage each and every individual to reach their personal goals, but as a faith community I asked what were our goals and where are we heading as a congregation.  We live in a world where being a busy person is praised as something that we all should strive for and seeking for solitude and rest is not considered as ideal and some may consider it as laziness.  
Sometimes we translate this way of thinking into the life of the church.  The church must look busy, people need to see that we are very active.  And those things are very good.  We need to be a visible presence in our community and in our own congregation. 
But our busynnes or our many activities should come as a result of the vision and mission that God has for us as a church.  When a church wants to be busy but is not working alongside with God's vision for the church, the church as a whole gets tired or stressed out, activities can become one more thing to do. This attitude of looking busy could lead the congregation to feel pressure to perform, instead of a desire to work for God's kingdom.  That could lead the church to burn out and crash as a whole. The leadership can become "cranky" and upset with one another, and we are lead astray from God's will for the church.
I have mentioned this before, but I believe that there are four areas that each church should work on in order to be built on the rock and not on the sand.  As a congregation, we should seek to grow in our prayer lives.  We should become busy in prayer, take more time to pray as individuals and as a community.  The beauty of being busy in prayer is that through it we find the rest that we need in God.

The other area that we need to work on is reading Scripture.  Through Scripture we are lead to God's will and God's vision and mission for the church.  Instead of worrying about doing things to look busy, we will be guided by God's word to fullfil the will of God.

A third area is living lives of worship.  In some places this is called living lives of Adoration.   What that means is that in everything that we do, we seek to glorify and honor God through it.  The way we conduct ourselved in our jobs, at school, with our neighbors, or any activity that we do, if we glorify God with it, we will be doing a great work for the church.  

And the fourth is Fellowship.  Building relationships in our congregation through fellowship is more than hanging out or having a cup of coffee together.  That is important, but through fellowship many opportunities arise for us to find out what is going on in the life of the members of our church.  Some people are shy during the service, that is their personality.  But when you sit down with them, talk with them, they might pour out their hearts to you, and that is a great opportunity for all of us to minister to that life.

So, let us get busy in Prayer, Scripture, Worship and Fellowship and we will see God being the one guiding us a congregation.

This coming Sunday - Pastor Marc is still undergoing treatment, so we will be having a guest preacher this coming Sunday as I will be in Crosswicks and Ellisdale giving communion and baptizing 3 children.



Catalina De Siena 123 - 5 11 15, 4.21 PM

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