Coming Together With a Common Goal

If you’re a music fan like me, you will have loved seeing the battle there was for the Christmas number 1 last year. The idea that a song by Rage Against the Machine that was originally a hit some 18 years ago could get to number 1 ahead of the marketing force behind the X Factor winner just seemed madness but it happened. It was fascinating to see the campaign gather pace not only on Facebook but across various TV and radio networks. For me, the whole campaign was summed up by a post on the Facebook page on the Monday after it got to number 1 that just said it all. It said that if people came together with a common goal in mind, anything could be achieved. Now I have to say, that got me thinking! For me the question is if people really come together with a huge desire to extend the Kingdom of God in our local area, just what could we achieve? How different could North Lincolnshire look? I would venture to say that it would look very different! SBC’s vision is to extend the Kingdom through outward focused lives and that extension of the Kingdom has to be what we’re about. Why not come along to our main building @ 10am on Sunday and hear more about this or if you can’t, why not follow us on Twitter or check out our Facebook page for the podcast? See you soon.

Iain

Sharing stories

One of the great things about our current series (which is not a series) is hearing amazing stories of people living adventurously.

Obviously it is great to hear exciting testimonies of people living crazy, Spirit-led lives, but there is more to it than that.  On a number of occasions people have shared stuff that God has used to inspire future messages.  So the process becomes two-way, with people not only being changed and challenged by messages, but also being a catalyst for future messages.  Of course, their intention was never to tell anyone else what to preach, they were just sharing out of their excitement.

So let's start sharing even more.  Why not tell us how you are getting on with living hungry or living engaged?  You can use the SBC Facebook page, make a comment on the blog, or even tweet it.  I am sure that there is great benefit and blessing to come from encouraging one another with tales of what God is up to with us.

Let the sharing begin.

Rich.

Are you hungry?

I certainly was.  The morning had flown by, and then an important telephone call came.  Before I knew it, it was 14:00 and I hadn’t had anything to eat.  I was hungry.  I had to make a swift trip to Co-Op to get a sandwich and there wasn’t much left. Thankfully there was something I fancied, but I was so hungry I would have eaten a sandwich with cucumber in it (desperate times and all that).

 However.

 My real question is, ‘Are you hungry for God?’

 If so, how hungry are you? Are you hungry enough to be inconvenienced?  Hungry enough to make sacrifices in your life?  How hungry are you to know God more, to experience His grace, to hear His voice and to be used by Him in the extension of His Kingdom?

I’d better stop there or else I won’t have anything to say on Sunday!  Come along to hear more or if you can’t, follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/official_SBC) or check out our Facebook page for the podcast.

Rich.