Mission Update – From Feb 24

Hello Friends and Family!

The Spring Fasting LTE (Life Transforming Event) was last weekend.  Fasting from food started Midnight, Wednesday night, and continued until we had Communion on Sunday morning.  We also fasted from talking from Thursday after work until Sunday morning.

You may be wondering why I would voluntarily give up food for three days.  That is a completely legitimate question.  Jesus does not command us to fast.  But the Bible does show us that fasting is a really good way to focus your heart on seeking God.  Also, Hebrews 11:6 says, “It is impossible to please God without faith.  Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.”  That’s what it is about – sincerely seeking God.

So did it work?

Short answer: YES.  But I don’t think you want the short answer.  Let me tell you about my weekend.

The purpose of the Fasting LTE is to figure out what your calling is.  By calling, I mean the purpose or task that the Lord designed you for.  More than that, the purpose of the Fasting LTE is to get the big picture of what God is doing and how you fit into it.

I am called to incite fellowship and enable other people to fulfill their callings.  The two really are almost the same thing.  You see, there are a lot of people that have giftings in the area of preaching or praying, etc, that don’t really use them.  The type of fellowship that I desire to provoke is the deep kind where those types of giftings come out.

An example of what this could look like:  I start a fellowship in the side-room of the cafeteria at work, which begins as a Bible Study.  It becomes obvious that Phil has a gift of preaching and a real passion for the book of Ephesians, so I start mentoring Phil and let him lead the Bible Study.  Later, we find out that Sally has an amazing singing voice, so we turn the CD player down a bit, and have Sally lead worship.  After a while, I go work at another company but the fellowship never stops.  Repeat.

My vision for this is that the fellowships would duplicate themselves.  When they get too big, they split for convenience — or, in other words, when there are too many people to fit at one table in the Cafeteria, sit at two.  Around that time (depending on the size of the table), there will be another person ready to take a leadership position. Then, there are two tables — still unified, but doing their own discussion on Ephesians, or whatever book they end up studying.

This is the main part of my calling.  I encourage people to do what they already are supposed to do.

Have a wonderful day!

-Ryan

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