For all of you who took in the I-Heart Revolution movie, I love hearing how God stirs hearts. Please write down your thoughts.
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As you took it all in, how would describe what God was stirring in your heart to DO?
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For me, there was kind of this conviction about how I'm managing the resources that God has blessed me with. I have been blessed with money, talents, and time. So the question that I'm weighing is how am I wasting what I have, and how can I be more purposeful about putting those gifts to work for the Kingdom and serving those around me. I think – with God's help – that I can waste less time and waste less money, and I can be more effective in using my talents.
I agree with Mark…. I'm asking myself, where am I spending my time and resources – and is that really where God wants me? I wish I could have written down the many quotes that were put on the screen. So much good stuff there, and I would like to use them later in my quiet time and life group discussions. God is definitely stirring me, and I need to keep asking the question, 'what is my "something" that I can do to make a difference for Him.?'
For about two months now I've had this still small voice tugging at my heart strings telling me that it is time to get my financial house in order and to concentrate on the need around me with the bounty that God has allowed me to enjoy. I knew when I left the screening that God was showing me in a big way that this is what He wants me to do. So pray as I start this journey toward freeing myself from debt so that I can concentrate on filling the need around me in Jesus' name.
I am still grabbling with the fact that I don't quite know exactly what Hillsong did other than go on tour? Do they just tour to share the gospel? I saw at the end of the film where you can get involved and help, but w/what? They made the comment several times that at the end of the day they go back to their nice hotel. I was waiting for them to say, but now we will no longer stay in our luxury hotel we will instead… fill in the blank . Do the proceeds from their tours go to something? It almost seemed as if they were struggling with what to do?
that is suppose d to "grappling" oops!
CONT… No matter how many times I see people in these circumstances, it just breaks me, tears roll down my face as I sit and watch babies, children, mothers and fathers deal with such enormus obstacles in their lives. I always ask myself, what can I do, what would truly help them, what organization can I partner with that already has the resources in place? Is money going to fix the problem or does it just enable some to continue on the path their on? All people really need, is to know that no matter what their income or where they come from or their situation, that JESUS is their HOPE and LOVE. But we are the BODY and we need to meet these people where they are and not look past them, but LOVE them! So my prayer is that GOD would use me in a GREAT way to be HIS body and LOVE HIS people the way HE LOVES THEM and pray that finances would not be a roadblock for me to LOVE someone.
Wow thanks Christy I thought I was the only one.I have always liked Hillsong and Brian Houston.[" unto Him" my favorite cd]. But I sat there waiting for the sell and it never came . It took 120 mins to even mention the name of the Lord. I found my self praying during the movie because i was disturbed my the lack of Christs involvement. Seemed more like an indoctrination toward liberalism in many ways more than a ministry. I will have nothing to do with a ministry that is purely the works of men. I have done plenty of that in my life . Now if Christ is the center I am all in. Just seemed like a video with an agenda other than the expantion of love of Christ. All that said I am prepared to help do anything that BTC is ready to do local or abroad..Let's GO
Christy I have to agree with you also! I kept waiting for them to say they spent the night on the streets with the homeless, lived a day in their life. It is heartbreaking to see people in pain, especially children. I want to help them, but I desperately need God's guidance to use me. I think the message was exactly what you said, just LOVE one another, and look for ways to express it! Whether its here at home taking a neighbor a plate of food that you prepared because they live alone, or raking their leaves, mowing, cleaning gutters, planting flowers and telling them how God blesses us! I pray that my eyes and ears will be open to hear the Lord speak. I pray that God will soften the hearts of each and every human to bend to the need of someone else, before our own comfort!
Just want to take a minute to say thanks to Pastor Bret and everyone who made possible the opportunity to see the Hillsong movie–to me, I think it was Hillsong United's heart to just put some of the major problems in the world in our faces, and then let us decide whether we want to help with any ot those various issues, and if so, which one. Unreached mission areas? Homelessness? Racism? Natural disasters? Genocide survivors in Rwanda or Darfur? Brutality in Somalia? Child sex-slavery/trafficing? Abortion? Poverty/hunger? Troops in danger overseas? Veterans with post-trauma? Drug, alcohol, porn addiction? Child molestation and abuse? Orphans? Not every one of these issues is going to hit home for each of us, but we can pick something-anything. God bless!
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