Missional Efforts

Our church (you know who's church it really is), the church where I serve, is undergoing a transformation...It may take more time than some of us would like, and that may be frustrating, but I believe that our church culture is changing. These days, you rarely see a tie on Sunday morning and we are finally re-interest-ing ourselves and re-investing in the community around us (that which is within 2-4 miles round our physical location). The more we seek God's will and the more we release ourselves, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to participate fully in the mission of God, the more our church will be in tune with what God has in store for us...There are days that I really need to remember these things so that I don't get frustrated and tempted. I love where I am...completely!

I am mindful of these words by Keith Getty and Stewart Townend, the same gents who wrote "In Christ Alone," and "The Power of the Cross," in their fairly new hymn "Speak, O Lord."

Words and Music by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music (CCLI #480296)
Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
To receive the food of Your Holy Word.
Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;
Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,
That the light of Christ might be seen today
In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.
Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us All Your purposes for Your glory.

Teach us, Lord, full obedience,Holy reverence, true humility;
Test our thoughts and our attitudes
In the radiance of Your purity.
Cause our faith to rise; cause our eyes to see Your majestic love and authority.
Words of pow'r that can never fail—Let their truth prevail over unbelief.

Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds; Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us—
Truths unchanged from the dawn of time
That will echo down through eternity.
And by grace we'll stand on Your promises,
And by faith we'll walk as You walk with us.
Speak, O Lord, till Your church is built And the earth is filled with Your glory.


May these words bless you as they have me.