Sunday Reflections

Here are some thoughts from Sunday:

• It was week three in our Crank It Up series and we talked about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.
• A disciple of Jesus is willing to say anytime, go anywhere, do anything, and at any cost.
• The bottom line is do you have a whatever it takes attitude.
• God's optimal desire for us not insulation in a spiritual bubble where we risk nothing, sacrifice nothing, and lose nothing.
• Read Luke 9:23-26.  
• "People really good at making excuses are rarely good at anything else." - B. Franklin
• "Some day" is a disease that will take your life from you.  You must be ready and willing for God to use you on His time table not your time table.  
• Are you willing to go anywhere? May we never have the audacity to say we will go the nations but never share with our neighbors.  
• The Great Commission is not the great suggestion.  It is also not either/or.  It is both/and.  It has got to be the nations AND your neighbors!
• We commissioned a team going to Nicaragua this Friday.  It is the first team we have sent out of this country in the short history of our church.  Pray for this team and their work in Nicaragua through Living Water International!
• Many times we want to run to certainty.  To follow Jesus means you are willing to embrace uncertainty!  Read Matthew 8:20.  Translation: Follow Christ and you will never know where you will end up.  
• The disciples followed Jesus into uncertainty and he turned them into world travelers and history makers!
• There must be a willingness to anything short of sin to reach those far from God (1 Corinthians 9:22-23).  
• There is a fine line between courage and stupidity but those who do great things for God flirt with that line.  (i.e. Benaiah in a pit with a lion, David vs. Goliath, Peter walking on water).
• We announced that we are moving to Torrey Pines High School.  Lord willing our first Sunday will be on Sunday, September 5th.  We are pumped about the opportunities that this gives us!
• I shared more about it during the message.  I will also share more in the weeks to come too!
• The bottom line to all of this: Whatever it takes!