A year ago this month I started the
Fellowship of Followers, a focused, purposeful group that gathers together one Sunday night a month to learn more about
how to go from believer to follower--how to take on the followership of Christ as an identity.
Something
was stirring inside me as I started this group. Over the previous
couple years we had studied Spiritual Warfare, Law and Gospel, A Life
Beyond Belief, The Power of a Whisper, and Spiritual Formation.
Now
we needed to grasp more fully just what it meant to be a follower of
Jesus and boldly step out in our gifts, putting some practical skin on
what we had been learning. Our emphasis was on prayer.
I had
been feeling for some time that in addition to our ministries of
DivorceCare and Grief Recovery we were supposed to start a ministry of
prayer; but I had no idea what shape that would take.
Now, a year later, we have stepped into two nights per month of prayer opportunities: Pat has opened her home one
Thursday night a month for Intercessory Prayer, and on the third Monday we are offering a Soaking Prayer and Healing service.
Our next Fellowship of Followers meeting will be
this coming Sunday evening.
(See the info below.) If you would like to take your faith-walk deeper,
please join us. You will be challenged to do some reading and homework
from time to time. There's usually a lot to discuss. Bring your Bibles!
I quote Leonard Sweet:
"Jesus wasn't looking for leaders at all. Jesus was looking for followers."May it be so, Lord, for all of us,
Greg
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