Week of September 4

Waiting on God

Sowing our Prayer… Reaping the Spirit

‘As the Father has sent me, I am sending you’ (John 20:21).  What that one command Jesus announced 2,000 years of direction for the church.  He proclaimed that we are sent.  The church is, and you are individually, God’s missionary to the world.  Your church is God’s instrument to reach the world, and it includes reaching your community.  We are sent on mission by God.  We are to be a mission-church.  We are called to be on mission in our community.  We have been sent on mission where God placed us – not five, fifty, or five hundred years ago and not thirty, three hundred, or three thousand miles away.  We are on mission where God has placed us now.

-Ed Stetzer, career church planter and pastor.

Monday	Isaiah 6:1-10
Tuesday	John 21:15-17
Wednesday	Genesis 12:2&3
Thursday	Matthew 13:24-30
Friday	John 15:1-17
Saturday	Matthew 25:31-46

This week, your application is to DO.  Act in response to the grace given to you through communion this week.  Remember Christ’s actions and life, and respond by DOING.  Read the commissions and live them out because they were written to us just as much as they were written for the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and early Christians. 

This Wednesday is our Harvest meeting.  Remember what we have been looking at all these last 3 months (for reminder, you may want to look at the archived devotionals on the website below).  If the Spirit has been speaking to you about Oak Chapel, please come.  If you feel empowered by the Spirit to be involved, please come.  If you are ready to be involved in God’s mission to the world, please come!

Remember to pray for the Spirit to clarify the mission for Oak Chapel and for the Spirit to give us the power to work in this mission.