Life's Good...

Life's Good Week Highlights Package:

*INCARNATION = Authority in humility!
*SIN = Misplaced trust!

Ben Pfahlert

Street Teams
While out on Street Teams for LIFE's GOOD WEEK... Alan and I didn't get much response but ended up with one AWESOME conversation.

And to prove my theory true that if you allow people to talk and express their world view they end up shooting themselves in the foot and they themselves expose the inconsistency of their faith.

So in this conversation the person started out as a "Muslim", part way through said they were a "Agnostic Muslim", then as we talked about judgment and the after life, they said they had been to a Pentecostal church in England when they were there trying to work it out BUT now just believes that if you try your best and be good to others then it will all work out... then by the end of the conversation they became someone who believes in no real higher being but rather the universe!

Praise God that we could share the gospel and answer their questions with it! Oh how the foolishness of God is wiser than Us!!!

SWITCH DINNER - Life's Good So why do I always want more?
Two good friends I went through school with came along to our Switch Dinner. Danielle and Lisa said they had a really good time and they said quote "you really know how to pick good friends" ! Don't know if that is a reflection on themselves or Hannah, Eddie, Alice, Simon and Mike who sat at our table.

They enjoyed the talk and engaged with it, we got stuck on talking about materialism and whether it's just a cultural thing and danced around the idea of whether there is an innate desire inside people to be envious, competitive and jealous!

But in the car trip home, my friends said that they were very insightful saying that they don't pursue money, career or the perfect home... Lisa and I always joke that the two of us will end up sharing a studio apartment and have a bunk bed if we want to buy our own place and live in Sydney. She knows that money doesn't buy happiness, but agrees there is joy to be had with the good things in life... I think she has a really healthy view. But then my friends honestly raised the issue in their lives where that do want more and that is in relationships!

God was gracious to allow me to share the gospel in this context with them... how can we deny that relationships are the most important thing, it's where pain is most real, and joy most fulling - God designed us to be in relationship with each other and sin distorts the way we relate - we reject the most important relationship we can have and that is this God who created us!!! Ask God to lavish his grace on Lisa and Danielle!

Wise Up with Wild St - Mythbusters
6 youths prayed the prayer!

"'Rejoice with me; ... In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." Luke 15:9-1