Stones River Church | Murfreesboro, TN

Fasting

There's another level that God can tap into when we fast from things we need, not just things we "want to give up".

Hearing The Lord with Disagreement

Becoming a People of Prayer

Praying for Breakthroughs

The power of agreement.

Becoming Involved:

1. Information (Joshua Project; international news source, books, podcasts, Perspectives, books—ask Greg for recommendations)
2. Intercession—prayer walk, have a list of people that any time you encounter a promise God makes you plead it for them
3. Involvement (ELL, teaching citizenship, hosting international students who came to the Great Give Away)
4. Integration—let it touch your life; getting it into your wallet and your living room
5. Investigation—ask the hard question, “What about me, Lord, where do you want me to go?”

Discipleship in Prayer

Greg McKinzie

Pray (and Walk) for your Neighbors

The church that meets in our buildings on Saturday joins us to say thank you and share in some good news of bringing people to Christ. Then Jon McPeters shares a video https://youtu.be/1Ph30WlScRs and encourages us to join a prayer walk.

Panel Discussion: Prayers for Murfreesboro

Greg facilitates a panel with Justin, Ben, Seth, Jon on examples from their grassroot mission work. Listen to stories that aren't particularly anything special, then watch how God turns them into something special. Reaching unbelievers and create friendships, not just a convert and moving on.

• Simplifying Obedience
  • It's so easy to get caught up in "prepping" for "church".
• Internal Closeness vs External Focus
• The Command Is Mine to Obey
• Evangelism: Width vs Depth
  • Reaching unbelievers and create friendships, not just a convert and moving on.
• Thought for Group Prayer:
  • Who in my life is God preparing a deeper friendship?

God‘s Heart for Social Justice

Social Justice is very close to our Father’s Heart!

• Micah 6:1-8   “With what shall I come before the LORD...He has showed you , O man, what is good…To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
• Isaiah 1:14-17  “Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates…Stop doing wrong, learn to do right!  Seek (emphasis mine) justice, encourage the oppressed.  Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”
• Hosea 6:6 “I desire mercy, not sacrifice…”
• James 1:27  Pure and faultless religion is…

Proverbs 14:31
“He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”
As we care for the poor, the needy, the oppressed, we are walking out who our Creator intended us to be and bring Him honor!

We are accountable! Matthew 25: 31-46
When did we see you…?

•     hungry, thirsty
•     a stranger
•     naked
•      sick
•      in prison

“whatever you did for one of the least of these…”

The feeding of the 5,000    All 4 gospels…

• Looking at it from 3 perspectives…
  • Jesus’s perspective:
    • Jesus posed a challenge… Where shall we buy enough
    • You give them something to eat.
  • The disciples’ perspective:
    • We can’t afford it ( more than 8 months wages)
    • Let them fend for themselves.
    • We only have  (???)
  • The boy’s perspective

Where do we begin?

• BORO KIDS…  (Inner City Ministries)
• We need you!
  • we have only 1 bus driver…
  • we need bus riders
  • we need more classroom people
  • we need meals (rotating providers).
• SIGN UP SHEET COMING AROUND!

Where do we go from here?

• Greenhouse Ministries
• Habitat for Humanity Build Events: Habitat Re Store
• Journey Home and sending out the 72…
• Feeding the Needy Where they are.
  • Women's/Domestic Abuse 
  • NAACP

John 17

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You‘ll Know Them by Their Love

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