Transformed...ABS News

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From: Mark Seagle <mseagle@valleyviewtuscaloosa.com>
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Sent: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 18:02:40 GMT+00:00
Subject: Transformed...ABS News

Lately, every week that I venture into Yahweh is an opportunity for a spiritual tail whipping!    For instance, in this week’s study Josiah discovers that the Word of God is dormant among the people of God!    In fact, the Word is not just dormant, but it has been ABSENT for an extended season.  Wow!!  The people of God walking around and taking up space on the planet without the Word of God being shared among them.     What a tragic account?!   What an epic response by Josiah!    He calls the people to move their hearts and minds toward the Word and invites them to fall in love with the Word and leads them to devour the Word and stakes their lives upon the Word.       I know that the Word of God, at times, becomes dormant in our own personal lives and in the life of our fellowship.    We don’t intend for that to happen, but life chokes truth at times.   May we be like Josiah, and respond with passion and persistence when we find that we are slipping away from the only thing that really matters.   God’s Word is beautiful!  Revel in Him.  Lead your group to value the Word AND to radically adjust our lives to the truth of His Word.

 

 

A few important nuggets…

-         July 3^rd (the week AFTER next) Valley View will have a single service at 10 AM and no ABS or evening activities.    9:30, we will be serving light snacks and enjoying some sweet community prior to the service.

-         I (Mark) will be venturing away for a couple of Sundays.    I will miss you guys, BUT I will surely love, love, love being with my wife and kids for a season.    I will be praying for our fellowship while enjoying my family.

-         Renew 2011 launches July 11 @ 6:30 PM     In the month of July and the first week of August, we will have NO Sunday or Wed activities, but we WILL have amazing Monday night services.    Loads of information is already coming your way via our worship folder and posters and hand-outs….

-         4.32 Tuesdays to launch on Tuesday, July 12.    4.32 Tuesday’s will be one more way to unite and expect as a church.    Your staff team will be providing an on-line opportunity to pray, unite, reflect, and expect.   Each Tuesday, we will reflect on the prior weekend and how God was speaking to us – perhaps via our ABS groups or in Bro Billy’s teaching or in a unique experience that God is doing among us.      The ‘how’ of 4.32 Tuesday is that we will post on the blog each Tuesday (and also on FB) and think, provide focused prayer, and invite our body to unite even more in our hope in Christ.    I think that this will feel or be a bit like 18 Days (from The Awakening), but will be offered once a week rather than daily.      4.32 Tuesday launches July 12.

 

As we pray…..

-         Our Honduran team is gearing up and preparing for a God-sized week.    Last night (Wed), Stan Gray shared that 125+ people were saved last year by the use of a visual tool that shares the gospel.   This year, 11 people are trained to use this same tool  He asked us to pray for an outpouring of God’s grace in response to the presentation of the gospel!       Pray for a God-sized week.

-         Our Royal Family Kids have returned to their homes and are considering the implications of camp.   Continue to pray for this ministry and these children.    The monthly mentoring ministry will launch as school returns.   How exciting to be in the middle of God’s move as He completely changes the trajectory of the lives of these children and their present and future families.

-         This weekend, our recent graduates and college students will head to Doublehead for a retreat.    Ask Christ to rest among them.

-         Renew 2011 is on the horizon.   Pray, expect, and invite.

 

I thank my God for each of you.  I hope that the Word of Christ is alive in your heart.  I pray that the Word will not be dormant among us.   I am asking God to bring us alive toward His Word and that His Word will flourish among us.      Thank you for being a partner in the gospel.    I look forward to seeing you guys in the near future and the Word of God PROSPERING among us.    The Word of God is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. —Martin Luther

 

By Grace…. For Glory,

Mark

 

 

 

 

mark seagle

pastor, spiritual formation

valley view bc

tuscaloosa, al

205.752.0977