mmm…waiting for Rach to arrive for a meeting and seriously contemplating whether I still have time for blogs in my life…
I’d like to…
Transforming Australia
Well, here I am in rainy Melbourne. My plan for filling my final few hours here was in fact to sit by the river and ‘process’ all my millions of thoughts from the last 2 days, but the rain has driven me to an internet cafe and the world of blogs. There is something exciting about blogging from another city. A tram just went past the window and ding-ed. Yes, I’m in Melbourne.
I’ve just spent the last 2 days with some of the most amazing leaders in our country discussing the link between prayer and social transformation. It was all heavy, amazing, scary, tense, affirming, liberating, overwhelming, encouraging and more. I felt young and inexperienced and decided that was a really good thing. I have a lot of life ahead of me (hopefully), and that’s good to know. I was really impressed by the humility of the big time leaders in the room. I reallly hope nad pray that as I grow in leadership and experience more of life that I become one of those older people who is wise, humble and able to release young people like some of the people I met here, and not bitter and arrogant.
Humble me, Lord.
Sometimes I wish I was in a developing nation where some sort of national trauma had caused the church to come together and earnesty seek God leading to a massive revival and huge social change to occur (eg like Fiji, Rwanda, Indonesia, South Africa…). But instead, here I am in comfortable, complacent Australia, a nation that struggles to get Christians to come together and be nice to each other let alone cry out to God together for mercy and transformation. God, where to from here?
Other thoughts…
I have a new appreciation and respect for World Vision.
There’s more people than I thought that believe in the necessity to marry Spirit, Word & Social Action
The gifts of intercession and pioneering are more linked than I’ve ever considered (the few opening the door for the many)
Tim Costello is a tops leader and has really insightful things to say
I admire women in ministry who’ve persevered in a male dominated sphere
It’s amazing what connection you can feel with people you’ve just met when you discover God is doing something similar in you even though you live in different parts of a country
Christian circles are small. (Most people I talked to knew someone I knew)
I’m way more judgemental than I’d like to be.
The last thing the church needs is another event
I’m too young to be tired
The world is a big and daunting place
God is bigger
Maybe I’ll just do something small
I miss Jon.
Still to come….
posts on the titles given to me
answers for Sam’s tagging
No people, I have not forgotten you!
Might just go catch a plane first.
coming back
I want to blog again but can’t work out where to start or what to say.
Challenge: If someone gives me a title and or topic to blog about, I’ll do it. Anyone?