There is a lot that still needs to be processed from day 2. My workshop track prompted a number of great questions to follow up on in my DMin work. Definitions, ideas, and practices that need to be deconstructed and then reconstructed so that I can better understand them.
The general session created there own series of great thoughts to ponder. Rev. Joshua Choonmin Kang, a Korean pastor and writer posed this thought based on the story about Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice Issac, he stated that "we can't see the best God has for us until we give up what is most presious to us." Abraham was willing to give up his son, and then he saw the ram. Are there things you are hanging onto in your life that is preventing you from seeing what God may be wanting to give you?
In another session pastor Randy Frazee we were challange to take an honest assessment of our spiritual walk, using the Fruits of the Spirit + humility as our criteria (on a scale 1-6). This is a two part process, first there is a personal evaluation and then you are to invite three people to also assess you. We don't need to fear that these evaluators will learn some deep dark secrete about you, they already know where you are at, the fear we need to lean into is our willingness to hear their words and embrace a plan to move toward our standard in this are who is Jesus Christ.
In the final general session Dallas Willard spoke on a subject that I have a passion about, servanthood. Dallas put a twist on the old WWJD, instead asking HWJDI (How would Jesus do it?). His answer, Jesus would do it as a servant. He went on to say that servanthood as Jesus lived it was more than just participating in a couple of service projects, but rather it is living a life of service.
I am looking forward to day 3.
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