Hello to you all! An update on me!
Oops, it has been quite a while since i last posted!
Erm, an Amy update is that i'm in quite an odd place atm. A friend called it the January Blues, i've not really come across it before, but i guess that's what it could be.
I just feel passive about quite a lot, and just have a rubbish feeling going on. All i want to do is get away. I've spoken to a few people who can identify with it which is a bit wierd, but i just don't know what to do about it! Am hating it though - is so not me!
Soooo...yeah!
Aside from that, i'm loving uni, one week back and i'm being super challenged! Is fantastic, but requires a great deal.
My current hot potato , now that i've got as close as i think i will to what church is about, is what Calling is about. It's thrown around alot by christians, but i guess in reflecting on me i've started to question the emphasis we place on it in our lives - from what i can gather in the bible if God wants people to do something then He lets them know, very clearly. Moses and the burning bush for example.
But what about the others?
The disciples all were sent out to be fishers of men, and like with Joseph, their situations seem to dictate where they end up and what they end up doing, not them going and seeking what it is that God wants, and feeling pants when they're not sure.
What i think is my theology at the moment (but is constantly being questioned in my head) is that we are each given gifts and talents and maybe even things are placed on our hearts by God, and we are called to live a worshipful life.
If God wants us to do something specific then he'll surely make it clear, and if he doesn't want us to do something then the same - eg Moses and Jonah. If he doesn't do that then i think we might be free to make our own decisions - depending on the circumstances that come up. Just as long as we are seeking to please and worship him.
What do you think?
Quite a big post...There you go Lou! Updated!!
Erm, an Amy update is that i'm in quite an odd place atm. A friend called it the January Blues, i've not really come across it before, but i guess that's what it could be.
I just feel passive about quite a lot, and just have a rubbish feeling going on. All i want to do is get away. I've spoken to a few people who can identify with it which is a bit wierd, but i just don't know what to do about it! Am hating it though - is so not me!
Soooo...yeah!
Aside from that, i'm loving uni, one week back and i'm being super challenged! Is fantastic, but requires a great deal.
My current hot potato , now that i've got as close as i think i will to what church is about, is what Calling is about. It's thrown around alot by christians, but i guess in reflecting on me i've started to question the emphasis we place on it in our lives - from what i can gather in the bible if God wants people to do something then He lets them know, very clearly. Moses and the burning bush for example.
But what about the others?
The disciples all were sent out to be fishers of men, and like with Joseph, their situations seem to dictate where they end up and what they end up doing, not them going and seeking what it is that God wants, and feeling pants when they're not sure.
What i think is my theology at the moment (but is constantly being questioned in my head) is that we are each given gifts and talents and maybe even things are placed on our hearts by God, and we are called to live a worshipful life.
If God wants us to do something specific then he'll surely make it clear, and if he doesn't want us to do something then the same - eg Moses and Jonah. If he doesn't do that then i think we might be free to make our own decisions - depending on the circumstances that come up. Just as long as we are seeking to please and worship him.
What do you think?
Quite a big post...There you go Lou! Updated!!
posted by AmyK @ 12:03 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:00 AM,
AmyK said…
Lol, well, i think that the Church is the body, and so it's a lifestyle that we've tried to squish into one day a week, or a day and a few meetings.
It's about living a worshipful life in communion with other christians, truely being brothers and sisters to one another, serving and loving one another unconditionally.
Through sharing this lifestyle with those who are not chrisitans, they will undoubtably see and experience the love of Christ, and long to know more.
With regard to calling, i guess my question is do you think that that is a 'I have called you to do this task/job' from God, or do you think that our role in the body is our acting out of our gifts and talents - however we feel we want to?
To be honest, this also comes out of my thinking about my future - questioning if God calls each of us to a specific place/job/ministry/person, or if he's given us ourself, with our strengths/weaknesses/gifts/talents, and actually is ok with us deciding what we want to do with those things, provided that we are doing it with a heart to serve him. Also that makes a lot more sense with regard to free-will in my head.
Like i said in the post - in the bible there are times when God tells people very clearly to do very specific things, and if that's the case then i guess that is your calling for that time. But what about those who don't have a burning bush experience?
Like with your looking at being some sort of a minister. One of the gifts God's given you is in preaching, and he's given you a heart to support and help others. Your outworking of that is doing the talk at Church sometimes and your councilling. But where you outwork that heart and gift, and how you do it - maybe that's not pre-destined in a calling for you, but rather is a gift from your Father God. Maybe it's Him saying that as long as you have Him as number one in your heart, you can use the gift of free will and choose how you express it in your life.
So, i don't think that i think someone's called to be a cleaner, or a drink-maker, or washer-up-er, or anything else, where God's said to them 'this is what i want you to do'. Instead i think they've got a real servant heart, or their personality means that they want to be doing stuff in the background, or that they really enjoy that stuff, or other aspects that i can't think of! So their outworking of it is that they see a need and step into that role.
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