Hi All.
This is to let you all know that Billy Haddock's mother passed away today. I spent sometime with him this afternoon and assured him of our support and prayers. Please keep Billy and his sister Winnie and the entire family in your prayers.
My thanks to everyone who came to the New Life Leaders' Summit today. Without me making any further comment, I got the following from Les Clarke and think it is worth passing on:
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:25 PM
Subject: NLCC "Epicentre"
For me, today was another landmark day in the life of New Life. I feel there exists a genuine and tangible desire or OREGO to chase after God, to carry out our vision and fulfil our potential. Perhaps in the past we have been guilty, both individually and collectively, of not sustaining and raising the levels we have achieved but every church at some point could say the same I think. This time it feels like we want "IT" so much more and once we get "IT" I truly believe we won't lose IT because we have so many strong hands, hearts and minds to keep hold of IT thanks to our desire for the presence of God and the working of the Holy Spirit.
I often have a lot of thoughts or even images of NLCC (I am not calling them visions because they are often very fleeting pictures in my head) and what it could be. I usually just entertain myself with them because I probably lack boldness to dare to
believe this could be God but something hasn't left my mind for sometime now and confirmations seem to keep popping up everywhere. The recurring thing I see is an ariel view from above our church and its sphere of influence or the areas it impacts shown by rings emanating from an epicentre namely our church. Im not even sure if its our current influence I see or our desired or future influence...but it's like looking down onto a hotspot or volcano almost. Then the rings would ripple caused by a shaking from the epicentre or the church. I have shared with a few people that there seems to be something brewing at New Life and that certain boxes containing us are about to be broken open just as Brian Longridge had said (and I wish I had been there that night-the whole box thing would have impacted me hugely!) but maybe this shaking is caused by the breaking of these "boxes", maybe not, it may well be something else. It may be because of "IT"! But whatever causes the shaking, its coming from our church and it seems good! We may not yet be planet shakers or city shakers but what if we could shake our community because of the energy that flows or radiates from the epicentre, our church? We all know about the power of earthquakes and their devastating effect but what if our church caused a different type of quake that shook the heart and soul of our community for the Glory of God with an equally powerful effect? I'm not saying this is what all this represents but maybe at the least some food for thought! Jack's next message:- "Living in the Earthquake Zone!" God Bless.
Les
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