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CDG?

I have been doing alot of questioning lately which is half the reason I created this blog. Hopefully in writing some of these out the answers will come.

During a meeting of I don't know if you would call it a cell group or not but we thought about starting what is called a CDG (Covenant Discipleship Group) I thought this sounded like a good idea. My only problem is what do they do. I guess that is what the training is for.

While I was setting up a computer tonight I was surfing around looking for a web site that I had seen about 6 months ago that was all about cell ministry it is called the living room. So I decided to e-mail the owner of the site to see what he has to say and maybe we can get some ideas from there. So anyway one of his posts dated Oct 28th talks about BYO Worship. "Bring your Own Worship is always a meaningful night where each person is invited to bring something to share around a particular theme." I thought what a cool idea. So I had to make sure that I wrote it down and poof here it is on this website. So I figure during one of our next planning meetings I will bring this up to our leaders and see what they think about it perhaps it is something that will have to wait until the CDG's are running.

Aaron

posted by Aaron @ 8:35 PM 1 comments

Oops, what was I thinking

Well I was supposed to write a sermon last week, and I got lazy. The theme was even a good one but I just couldn't get myself to sit down and actually put pen to paper. So I did something that I am not very proud of. I scoured the Interweb and I cobbled a few different peoples thoughts on the scripture and presented it as my own.

Now the bad part is that I didn't feel bad until now a day later but maybe that is what life does to you. You grizzle up so that injustices don't hurt as much. How sad is that? We can look at something we know is wrong and we won't even wince to think about doing it ourselves, or perhaps we apply our own circumstances to a time or place and think, "Aww just this once, no one will care, or notice". But in the back of our mind we notice and God notices.

So what can we do about these things? Do we try to forget about them? Do we try to cover them up, bury them in the dark corners of our minds? Or should we let them out for the entire world to see, so that we can clear our minds and free our hearts of the burdens that we bear?

I think the first thing to do is to admit to ourselves that we know what we did is wrong, and then if that action may have hurt someone, apologize. Don't make excuses there is no good reason for doing that thing, it doesn't matter what the circumstances were. Your personal reasons will mean nothing to the offended party. Instead speak to their world find out more about them. Take this opportunity of defenselessness and let someone in for a change. It may make all the difference in the world to that person.

Aaron.

posted by Aaron @ 6:12 PM 2 comments