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Invitation is the Christian practice that allows us to explore uncertainty, risk and exposure to criticism. In the early church the disciples were exposed to all three elements. As they moved from place to place driven by persecution, they faced uncertainty, was God going to be with them? They faced risk, at times, Paul for example escaped with his […]
What something is worth is basically established by what someone is willing to pay for it. Certainly, our value is based on what SomeOne was willing to pay for us – for indeed, we were purchased with a price! Invite someone today to take a closer look at Christ (who paid the price) and his church.
Some of us don’t invite for we fear making a mistake, making the wrong decision. Inviting the wrong person,or Inviting at the wrong time. It was said of Joseph Stalin that if you made one mistake for him, it would be the last mistake you would ever make. Dealing with Stalin was like handling a live detonator! But our […]
Hope contains both trust and mistrust in tension. Hope is the confident expectation of something desired in the face of the possibility that it might not happen. Hope is the earnest longing of what can appear in spite of past experiences when it did not. Hope is the certainty that good will come even in […]
It is important to get clear the difference between dreams and goals in invitation. A dream is something you want to happen but is not fully under your control. The dream of wanting somebody to take a closer look at Christ is God’s bit. A goal is something that you can set and is achieveable. The […]
I have wondered why rejection is so raw for most of us and I have to come to the conclusion that our reaction to being rejected is a reflex. In the Commandments it says You shall love your neighbour as your love yourself, the clause “as yourself” correctly implies the love of self is innate. Every […]
To second guess something is to seek to anticipate what will happen. To predict the future. We do this with invitation by thinking our friend just won’t be interested. You can’t judge by the outside appearance because God is always doing far more behind our backs than in front of our faces. God was always interested […]