Missions

If the gospel is simply about individual conversion, then all you get is this self-seeking, selfcentered faith that says, “Fix me...make much of me...heal me...make me right.” But the good news of the resurrection is that we’ve been called to greater purposes, greater glories. We’ve been called to the mission? Of what? Well He already said. Remember? He takes them up to the hill, He’s about to ascend and He goes, “You go and tell everyone that injustice, sorrow and death are over. And you tell them everywhere that I have saved them from, and now I save them to.” And so our lives and our wallets and our houses and our cars and our jobs, it all flows through that lens. And I think this is why Christianity gets a little goofy, because I think it becomes self-help to most of us.  If you’re waiting until you’re perfect to live life on mission, you’re going to die without much mission. It’s coming. Do you get this? Do you get that 6000 years ago He told Abram, “This is how it’s going down,” and it has stayed true to the line right up until now where a massive portion of Africa has become believers, a massive portion of China has become believers, South America is blowing up with the gospel? Do you get that the gospel is penetrating the world? Do you know how this ends? With you and me in front of Him, with the kingdom of God, new heaven, new earth coming down, no more injustice, no more pain, no more sorrow, God’s redeemed, God’s elect, the kingdom of God established.

g'day mate!

Australia...put another shrimp on the barbie..wake up for some breaky...g'day mate!  In a year from now, I fully expect to use these terms in everyday life! If I can come out of Australia with an accent my life will be complete haha!  You may see this picture and think hey that is a kangaroo on a beach, but I look at this picture and say hey that is a kangaroo on a beach...the only differnce is that I will be living near this kangaroo for the next 3-6 months whoo hooo!  I have officially been accepted to YWAM Brisbane Sports DTS!  I'm so pumped to see what God is going to do and excited that I get to be apart of His story....His story of redeeming every tribe, tongue and nation to himself!  It's going to be one crazy adventure.  In Esther, Mordecai tells Esther (paraphraised) 'You have been placed here for such a time as this, and if you remain silent then God will raise someone else up to do it.'  I know that such a time is this to go, and if I don't go then God will send someone else, and I will miss out on the blessing to be his hands and feet!  "for such a time is this!" Go, Fight, Win, BREAK.

Ruin My Life

Ruin my life the plans I have made
Ruin desires for my own selfish gain
Destroy the idols that have taken Your place
'Till its You alone I live for

I wondered what my life would look like if I ever prayed this and really meant it.  So I started to make the lyrics my prayer...Ruin me, God. Take all the plans that have laid out for my life and make them yours.  All my selfishness and idols I have placed before you, destroy them and make it where you are all that I live for.  I want to be able to say as Paul says in Phillipians "To live is Christ, and to die is gain."  While I live, my hope, my trust, my refuge, my help, my comfort, my joy is in Christ, and knowing at the same time that this world has nothing for me, so to die is my gain.

Mission exist because worship doesn't.

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't."
- John Piper

covered in dust

The title of my blog is "covered in dust." During the first century many people would be sent out with the blessing "may you be covered in the dust of your rabbi." The idea is that followers followed so closely that they would be covered by the dust kicked up by the rabbi's feet. My prayer through out this journey I am about to venture into is that I am following and seeking and listening to Jesus so intently and so closely that I am covered in his dust. I am putting my "yes, I am ready to follow" on the table and with an open hand preparing to be ruined for the nations. I am anxious and excited to see what this life as a "vagabond" has for me.