Moore College Interview...

Didn't get asked any tricky theological questions at all...

Some of the questions I was asked were:

• What excites you about coming to college? What are your fears?
• learning & having my brain stretched, always wanted to go to boarding school so looking forward to living in an institution. Fears: can my brain be stretched?
  
  
• How did you become a Christian?
• Spoke of reality I have come to know that Jesus is the far greater treasure than the temporary glitter and sparkle of this world:
  Hebrews 11:25 "...choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward."
  
  
• Where do you want to be at the end of college?
• Wherever God wants me... but this wasn't an acceptable answer. The right answer but not acceptable... so I said "Anywhere" which was still not acceptable. So I said maybe Sydney, maybe overseas, maybe Remote Australia, shared about living in Aboriginal community and perhaps happy to go there... my theory doors open & doors close!
  
  
• How was MTS?
• joyfully exhausting!
  
  
• What things have you learnt from your experiences that will be useful in future ministry?
• No matter what life brings you, people still need to hear the gospel to be saved...
  
• God uses us in our weakness... he uses the weak...
  
• God is very gracious, forgiving others is hard...
  
• There is great pleasure in preaching the gospel...

You are the Greatest...

Matthew 11: 11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Is it individual or collective?
>>>OT/Prophets or NT /Christians?
>>> Or John or Daisy?

and so should I say "We" are the greatest?

because:
>>> of our place in history,
>>> of our confidence/assurance in His resurrection,
>>> we are not under the burdensome law but light yoke of JC?

OR is Jesus the greatest?

(today in TAT we side stepped this question saying: doesn't matter too much, and we shouldn't be like the disciples and question who... but still it is interesting that Jesus brings it up!)

Prayer Update

The new term is fast approaching... and more do I realise this is my last term of MTS which means my last run with many ministries - eek!

Pray that I will run hard to the end... pour myself out for the sake of the gospel but also that I will finish well to the 2 years invested in much that goes on at Matthias.

SWITCH

• Thank God for the 6 young women in my group... the encouagement they are with their godly living and the way they wrestle with God's word!


• Please pray that God would strengthen the great relationships they have with each other, caring and looking out for each other.


• Pray also that they will continue to see meeting with God's people as a top priority... so spur on and serve one another, even in and amongst the crap and chaos of life!

DRAMA

• Both Robyn and I are really drained by this activity... all our creative juice went into writing the plays and I think we have just run out of zest! Pray that God would strengthen and sustain us for this hectic term!


• Praise God for the HAIRSPRAY excusion a few Saturdays ago... for the many families that came along and for the great relationship building with Matthias and non-Matthias families at the BBQ Robyn hosted at her place after.... ABSOLUTLEY BRILLIANT!


• Pray for one girl "G" who is in year 6 and seems to have a keen desire to join in with Matthias events, and wants to go to Scripture @ School... Pray that she might find Youth Group for her next year, when in Year 7, as something she would love to go to.

STAFF

• Thanks for time away on STAFF ATTACK up at Copacabana Beach... for time to bond and time to think hard about the way we REACH the lost & EQUIP the saints....


• This is the flow diagram we came up with while we are away... which will hopefully help us think more strategically about what ministries we do well, whats lacking or missing and where we should best use our time as a staff team.

YOUTH

• My year 12's are facing the HSC very very soon... Please pray for Ellen, Chloe, Suzanna, Caitlin and Verity. Pray that they would find time to rest and relax, time to work hard, keep procrastination a bay, work hard and dilegently, and in everything they do, do it for the Glory of Jesus!
• Pray for wisdom for them as they make decisions for the upcoming year.
• Pray for godliness as they enter the 'post-HSC' party scene!
• PRAISE God for the upcoming JAMES Series at 1151... we did massive creative brainstorm session tonight in a meeting and God was kind to give us some really fun ideas to employ... Hope this will get the blood pumping in the Youth and that they would really want to WALK the WALK not just TALK the TALK in the Christian Life!
• Pray that we can think of creative way to package the series!

TAT

• This last term has been great in TAT going through Matthew.... I have found it the most rewarding time in God's word. Praise God for the time I get to prepare and study His word...
• Thank God for the Beatitudes and Chapter 5... found this particularly helpful in thinking about praying for healing...
  
  "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
  Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
  Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
  Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "
  
  If we do see healing it is a taste of what is to come and if we don't see healing it makes us long for the kingdom to come.

PERSONAL

• Decisions for NEXT YEAR... pray for wisdom and clairty for all that needs deciding upon!
• Thank God that I am looking forward to what may come next year. Especially getting the opportunity to study at Moore.
• Pray for the interview that will be coming up with a panel from Moore, that it will be an encouraging time!
• Thank God for the way he is continuing to shape me through His word and convict me of sin... May I submit more and more to the love of Christ that it would control me in everything I do from serving, working, relationships with family and friends, my speech, decisions, forgiving, loving, use of my time, priorites... you name it pray that the love of Christ is controlling me in it!
• PRAISE God for the many open doors to sharing the gospel with my mates... they are seeming to interact with it more and more which is exciting... Please pray God continues to use me amongst my friends to bring them under the sound of the gospel!

Thanks for your continued partnership in the gospel!

ONCE

I just saw the movie ONCE - A film by John Carney for the second time tonight.

I loved it the first time so much that when I got home from seeing it I bought the soundtrack on iTunes... seeing it again knowing the music and lyrics was a real treat. The music is great!

I found it such a unique movie... or modern quirky musical! I give it 5 stars.

What I loved...

• was the raw and mysterious characters - you don't really know their names which I guess is played out in the lyrics to one of the songs Falling Slowly - "'I don't know you, but I want to, all the more for that".


• was the hoover scene, with Marketa dragging her vacuum cleaner around like a dog!


• was that marriage was upheld as something to work hard at and that there was great delight in doing so... rarely find that in movies these days! (despite this I found in me a desire to see the main characters fondness for each other blossom even though it would have been wrong)


• Marketa's accent... Czech accents are cool!


• the music.... it really makes you want to be able to break out into song in your own life to help communicate the highs and lows... music, as Ravi Z says, is the language of the heart - I so agree with him!

Have you seen this movie? If not GO! It's on at Acadamy in Paddo!

http://oncethemovie.com/