This email was sent as an invitation to attend a meeting at Joel’s home. Although the meeting has come and gone, the content of the email may be of interest to readers.
Everybody ought to know this game. You come to school and bring something from home. Everybody gets to look at it while you tell a story pertaining to it. Fun for all.
I’ve been a little preoccupied here lately with our relationship between our physical world and the Bible which should be the guide book for our spirit. I’m not too concerned or curious about what life will be like after departing this world. If we trust in Jesus to atone for our sin than we can leave here with confidence that God has something better for us down the road. But, if you think about it, most of Jesus’s parables were based on “before and after” or “cause and effect.” This person did such and such and as a result, this and that came about. Most, if not all, these parables seem to show a very real connection between this world and the next.
One word I don’t particularly care for is religion. It seems like a box we put our “brand” of faith in and set it over there, apart from reality. It seems our faith and our physical world should be like man and wife (the two become one). I myself have certainly not achieved this completely, but I am trying to close the gap on a daily basis.
Anyway on June 4th at 3:00pm we will be hosting a “Show and Tell” of sorts. Bring something physical. Bring a relevant verse, chapter or story from the Bible. Be prepared to tell the group the relationship between the two. If you would rather not speak, write it down. This is easier than you might think. For example, bring a picture of some God-fearing person (in the world or moved on) and there is plenty in the Bible about those who fear the Lord. Bring a picture of Osama Bin Laden or Hitler, the Bible has plenty to say about those folks too! But try to think outside the box. Something unusual will surely be more beneficial to the others than the obvious. If it’s too big to tote, bring a photo, the possibilities are as vast as the world God has made for us.
Still stumped? Count your blessings! I’ll bet before you get too far at all, you’ll think of something. Be forewarned, if you bring something that tastes good you might not go back home with it! Just kidding, we will have something and I promise not to cook.
They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and I will proclaim your great deeds.
Psalm 145:6
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up,
just as I fact you are doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you may also have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
We write this to make our joy complete.
1 John 1:3-4
I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink.
I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.
3 John 13