Your Life Has Something to Say

Your life is preaching a message whether you are religious or not.  You may not feel like it does but your life and your experience's have something to say.  I found it difficult believing that my life could in any way help people.  Although through sharing my story, both hilarity and tragedy, people seem interested.  People connect with story.  Jesus throughout the gospels encountered people and jumped into their story.  


You may feel like Joe-six pack or Average Jane.  But your life is not average especially when you find God has put a message within you.  When you find that message you become a messenger.  The Bible says in 1 John 5:10 "Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony of God in them."  


If you have a chance to visit Clark Fork City Church we are looking at several stories over the next 8 weeks. A woman who was a social out-cast, a man born blind, The Average Joe and several others.  These messages are sure to inspire you and your story and urge you into God's Story.  


There is a portion in “A River Runs through it” that balances the story with a line “What a beautiful world it was once.”  In this stretch of the Story Norman Maclaen described three parts of fishing water: The Rapids, The Deep Bend, The Tail of the Fishing Hole. When we back up from our life it is interesting to view life's parts and how they effect who we are. 

Each great story has different parts that are viewed by God in their entirety, our finite minds have a tendency to break down each part and in our (chronos) time frame see events as individuals.  God has been at work in our lives before we knew he was there.  When we couldn’t see him at work.  When nobody else was there, He was.  He see's the whole thing.  Maybe a bend in the River has thrown your story for a loop, but God will find purpose in it.  His River wants to flow through your life.

September 23rd-24th Leadership Event is for You!

"A Christian Leader is a humble, God-dependent, team-playing servant of God who is called by God to shepherd, develop, equip, and empower a specific group of believers to accomplish an agreed-upon vision of God." Dave Kraft

Next weekend, Friday September 23rd and Saturday 24th we are privelaged to host a leadership event with Dave Kraft.  Dave recently wrote a book called "Leaders Who Last."  Only 30% of Leaders finish well.  Each one of us is called to lead people.  Jesus didn't ask us to go make decisions, but to go make disciples.  We all have a story to tell and a minsitry to be a part of.  Whether that means full time staff at a church or a volunteer for an Awana program, or maybe you are on usher on a Sunday we all have a part to play.  Not to mention God's global call that compells us to reach into our cities and nations of the world. 

Dave Kraft worked with "Navigators" a christian ministry for 38 years before joining Mars Hill Church in Seattle.  Dave works as a leadership development pastor, training, recruiting and equipping leaders.  He has served as a leadership coach for very inffluenctial pastors as well.  

Dave will be speaking Friday evening and Saturday until Lunch.  This brief time will be packed with training and will challenge each of us to  grow in our leaderhsip capacity. Please set aside the time and if you lead a team please encourage all your leaders to participate.  You may not be leading a ministry but you need to be!  This would be a great event for you as well.

The 20$ cost associated with the event is helping us as a group of city churches to start a fund to bring in high end leaders to Missoula to impact our city.  This event will get the ball rolling for a ministry called "city forum." So we get the opportunity to sow into the next events which will be a parenting event ted Tripp called "shepherding a child's heart" followed by a marriage conference by Paul Tripp.

Please don't miss this opportunity to dial in your leadership skills and be challenged. Childcare will be provided.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157497414318325

Don't Miss our new Sunday series "God's River Runs Through It"

http://www.clarkforkcitychurch.org/connect/the-river/