Getting this post out late.  Been meaning to get to it all week.

This past Sunday we completed session 3 of 4 that we are doing in Catalyst on Social Justice.

We talked about hope. 

With everything that we have talked about in regards to Social Justice and all the issues and problems ongoing in the world. There are 4 aspects of God character that we can trust in: (I am listing the scriptures we used for each aspect/trait)

1. Justice – Isaiah 30:19, Isaiah 61:8, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalm 10:13-14, Psalm 11:5-7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Psalm 146:5-20
2. Compassion – Psalm 145:9, Exodus 3:7, Exodus 22:26-27, Psalm 9:9-12, Psalm 12:5, Lamentations 3:36, James 5:4, Isaiah 53:3, John 11:33-35, Acts 1:8
3. Morals – Isaiah 59:2+16, Jeremiah 5:28-29, Jeremiah 21:12, Amos 2:6-7, Zechariah 7:8-12, Luke 11:42
4. Rescue – Psalm 10:13-18, Psalm 35:10, Psalm 140:12, Jeremiah 20:13, Luke 4:18

Stayed tuned for the Facebook Event announcements for the Catalyst Meet-Ups. 

This Sunday we close out the series….next series on the horizon, Crazy Love, based on the book by Francis Chan.

Here is the recap from a couple of weeks ago at Faith Apostolic Church.

We continued the series in the AM called “Unstoppable.” I talked about how we need to be a church that is focused and committed on leading people to be fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. We jumped into the Books of Acts (2:44), where we read about a powerful church, a small church with a large impact. The early church that we today say we want to be like, it was a church that was together. They believed scripture was important so they studied together. They believed in relationships, so they lived life together. They were also generous people.

They had unity. They were in agreement. They were together.

Instead of thinking of ourselves as members of a local church, we need to be partners together.  We need to bring what Jesus Christ has put inside of us to the table. You bring you. Others bring themselves. Everyone partnering together in agreement and the local church becomes unstoppable in the local community. Making a difference.

In the PM, I spoke on “Social Justice”.

I talked about a couple of steps to take

1. Cultivate Compassionate Awareness.  We need to go from hearing and reading about injustices around the world to action.

2. Prepare Our Mind for Action. The Bible declares the world’s need for salvation and justice. Preparing our minds for action means coming to grips that we were sent into a world as salt and light because the world is full of corruption and injustice.  Scripture speaks of the world into which Jesus sent us.  Job 24:2-4, 9-10; Psalm 37:14; Isaiah 3:14; Lamentations 5:11-13; Ezekiel 22:29; Joel 3:3; Amos 1:13.  So the last people that should be caught surprised that injustice is happening in the world are Christians.

Even Christ was born into a world where a ruler gave a order to commit injustice, something that if it was broadcast on CNN would be shocking to most people today. Matthew 2:16.

I will be posting the recap from this past weekend soon as well.  I have been recovering some major laptop failures last week, and am now just getting everything reinstalled.