LAPORAN PELAYANAN BULAN OKTOBER 2008

LAPORAN PELAYANAN BULAN OKTOBER 2008

PUJI TUHAN, TANGGAL 6 OKTOBER 2008 LALU, NOVIE TELAH SELESAI MEMBERIKAN KESAKSIAN UNTUK PROGRAM CBN-SOLUSI. PUJI TUHAN UNTUK ROY AND TEAM YANG TELAH BEKERJASAMA DALAM PEMBUATAN KESAKSIAN INI.
KESAKSIAN SAYA, TELAH DIPUTAR DI TV LOKAL JAKARTA, “O CHANNEL”. SEDANG DI SCTV MENURUT ROY AKAN TAYANG PADA MINGGU KE EMPAT BULAN OKTOBER INI.
DARI KESAKSIAN YANG SAYA BERIKAN, PUJI TUHAN, KABARNYA BANYAK YANG MENGALAMI JAMAHAN TUHAN DAN MERESPON UNTUK DIDOAKAN DAN MEMINTA KONSELING DARI PIHAK CBN (SOLUSI). SEGALA PUJI SYUKUR KAMI KEMBALIKAN PADA TUHAN YESUS KRISTUS.
PADA TANGGAL 17 OKTOBER INI, NOVIE DAN PARA IBU DARI PA HALELUYA JUGA AKAN MENGADAKAN BAKTI SOSIAL KE PANTI WERDA KARITAS. PUJI TUHAN, SUDAH ADA YANG MENYUMBANG BERAS, BEBERAPA KARTON MIE DAN MAKANAN RINGAN BERIKUT PULA SEJUMLAH UANG NAGI KEPERLUAN OPERASIONAL PELAYANAN DISANA.
KAMI SENDIRI MERASA TERBEBAN UNTUK MENOLONG PANTI WERDA INI SEBAB MEREKA KEKURANGAN VOLUNTEER DAN JUGA DONATUR TETAP. MOHON DUKUNGAN DOA ATAS HAL ITU.
Bekerjasama dengan DCI Foundation pada akhirnya kami dapat kembali mengadakan Sekolah Alkitab gratis secara online & berbahasa Indonesia pula yang kami beri nama Eagles Nest Online Bible School. Kami berharap melalui kerjasama ini lebih banyak orang Kristen menjadi murid Kristus dan bukan sekedar menjadi anggota gereja yang pasif atau hanya jago kandang alias pelayanan di dalam gedung gereja tanpa menjadi terang dan garam dalam hidup kesehariannya. Harapan kami melalui blog baru ini, para pemimpin Kriten juga mendapatkan bahan pemuridan yang baik bagi gerejanya. Sekolah Alkitab Online ini dapat diakses di http://enonlinebibleschool.blogspot.com
Puji Tuhan, kami juga sudah membuat beberapa blog baru, blog yang fokus pada Market Place Ministry http://dave-broos.blogspot.com , focus pada “menghadapi masa sukar” http://inmydarnesshours.blogspot.com , focus pada persahabatan http://friendshipamongnations.blogspot.com , dan focus pada tim sepakbola Belanda http://myoranjeteam.blogspot.com . Dua blog terakhir merupakan upaya untuk melakukan friendship evangelism.
Untuk mendukung pendanaan pelayanan saya sedang belajar untuk menjadi internet marketer, baru coba-coba, dukung doa ya. Bila ada rekan-rekan yang memiliki usaha yang dapat kami garap di Bandung tanpa mengganggu pelayanan alias dapat dikerjakan secara freelance dengan senang hati kami ingin tahu informasinya.
Juga tidak lupa mengucapkan selamat untuk Christo and Susan yang baru saja dikaruniai seorang putra bernama Giovano Jonathan Lorence denganberat 3,3 kg dan panjang 52 cm. Haleluya…anak-anak kecil di GO Surabaya bertambah lagi nih. Juga untuk setiap saudara dan saudariku di GO Surabaya yang tidak bosan-bosannya banyak mendukung kami. Doakan agar GO Bandung dapat berkembang juga ya!? Kami masih menunggu “kairos”(waktu) Tuhan untuk bergerak meski terbatas oleh banyak hal, terutama secara financial kami belum stabil. Hingga terkadang pelayanan di jalanan mandek. Kiranya Tuhan memberi kami hikmat agar orang-orang yang kami layani mendapatkan follow up dengan baik. Usaha penjualan pakaian yang seyogyanya untuk mendukung hidup sehari-hari dan operasional pelayanan pun macet, saat para pembeli (yang membeli secara kredit) mulai tersendat-sendat dalam pembayaran. Kami tengah belajar untuk terjun di market place meskipun itu tidak mudah bagi kami yang sudah belasan tahun hidup sebagai “imam professional” di gereja. Meski kami harus melalui berbagai kesulitan ini, kami melihat ini semua sebagai sebuah pembelajaran untuk dapat lebih mengerti apa yang dihadapi jemaat Tuhan di dunia kerja yang mungkin selama ini saya tidak mengerti atau rasakan.
Dukung doa juga saat ini saya tengah membuat sebuah buku berjudul “Saat Tuhan Sulit Dimengerti” dengan beberapa draft untuk penulisan buku jangka panjang (kesaksian hidup kami suami istri, mengapa kami masuk dalam pergerakan penanaman gereja PB,dll). Puji Tuhan juga, oleh kasih karunia Tuhan, tulisan-tulisan untuk renungan yang ada kini juga mulai dimuat pada Tabloid Imagodei, Renungan Pria dan Renungan Hana (Bandung) selain di Renungan Wanita (Surabaya).
Juga terimakasih untuk Pak Tony Tedjo sebagai director School of Writing, untuk setiap kesempatan yang diberikan mengikuti pelatihan anda, meski saya terkendala biaya. Tuhan yang memberkati dan membalas kebaikan anda.
Terimakasih untuk setiap teman-teman yang terus mendorong saya untuk berkarya melalui tulisan. Saya sangat appreciate atas apa yang kalian sampaikan. Tuhan juga memberkati apapun yang kalian kerjakan untuk menjadi dampak bagi tubuh Kristus.
Dukung doa juga untuk tempat tinggal, sebab kontrakan rumah kami bayar secara cicil dan belum lunas. Kiranya Tuhan membuka jalan bagi kami. Harapan kami tahun depan sudah dapat mencicil sebuah rumah tinggal agar tidak menjadi “kaum nomaden”, namun segala sesuatu kami serahkan kembali pada Tuhan sebab Ia yang EmpuNya rencana indah atas hidup kami. Kami hanya mengalir di bawah pimpinan Roh KudusNya. Dalam suka duka kukan tetap tersenyum sebab Yesus sertaku…begitulah lagu masa lalu yang kami amini setiap hari.
Bagi anda yang tergerak atau digerakkan Tuhan untuk mendukung pekerjaan yang tengah kami kerjakan, dapat anda transfer ke BCA II Bandung no rek BCA 0081824788 atas nama Dave Broos.
Layanan doa dan konseling dapat kirimkan email ke davebroos@yahoo.co.uk atau SMS 081330135643.

ARE YOU HEADED TO NINIVEH OR TARSHISH?

Lee Grady, merupakan salah satu penulis yang kusukai. Apa yang ia ungkapkan seolah berasal dari isi hati Tuhan sendiri. Ia dapat menjabarkan kebenaran dari sudut pandang yang lain alias tidak pada umumnya. Tulisannya di bawah ini telah menjadi kekuatan bagi kami untuk tetap mentaati panggilanNya. Melayani mereka yang terhilang dalam dunia subkultur. Thanks Lee for your faithfulness as a writer. God bless you.


Are You Headed to Nineveh … or Tarshish?
by Lee Grady (Charisma Editor) www.themordecaiproject.com

Jonah fled from God’s presence because he didn’t want to be a prophet to a lost world. Which way are you sailing?
In the 8th century B.C. Jonah participated in one of the most unusual prayer meetings in history. It happened at the bottom of the sea from inside a giant fish. With damp seaweed wrapped around his head and his skin bleached by digestive juices, the renegade prophet sat on the slimy stomach membrane and gasped for breath amidst the foul odor of eels, crabs and barnacles.
In total darkness Jonah prayed from the salty depths: “Those who regard vain idols forsake their faithfulness, but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the Lord” (Jon. 2:8-9, NASB).
Sometimes we must sink to the lowest point before we turn to God. That’s what Jonah did. From what could have been a watery grave he got a second chance to obey.
“Are you running from God’s call on your life? Have you hired a luxury ship to take you to a comfort zone where you don’t have to think about the needs of your Nineveh?”
The fish swam hundreds of miles eastward, back toward the Phoenician shore, and vomited the repentant prophet onto dry land. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city” (3:2).
It had not been an easy process, but Jonah now understood his priorities.
When he finally arrived in Nineveh he heralded his message and caused a citywide commotion. Within hours everyone was talking about the Jewish prophet who spoke of divine judgment. All the inhabitants of the Assyrian capital, including the king, put on sackcloth and called on the name of the God of Israel because of Jonah’s dire warning.
God touched an entire city with His amazing forgiveness because one reluctant man finally fulfilled his divine assignment.
All of us can relate to this story. We are called to minister to the faithless Ninevehs of our generation—our workplaces, campuses, neighborhoods, cities and beyond. Each of us is called to be a missionary with a specific assignment. But often we run in the opposite direction because of fear of failure, insecurity about our weaknesses, disappointment about a past ministry experience or just plain selfishness.
Jonah hired a boat to take him to Tarshish, which was about as far as you could go from Nineveh in those days. (Bible scholars say it was in Spain, possibly a mining outpost near Gibraltar.) But he never reached his Mediterranean hideaway. God found him asleep in the hold of the ship and sent a storm to rouse him. Within a few hours he was thrown overboard and ended up as fish food.
Can you find yourself in Jonah’s story? Are you running from God’s call on your life? Have you tried to drown out the cries of lost people? Have you hired a luxury ship to take you to a comfort zone where you don’t have to think about the needs of your Nineveh?
Many American Christians today are in Jonah’s boat. We don’t like to hear sermons about evangelism. We’re not interested in the crucified life. We’ve shunned sacrifice. Instead of making the Great Commission our priority, we’ve fallen asleep with our iPods playing perky messages about success and prosperity.
But I hear the sound of wind and waves. God has sent a storm to rouse a distracted, disobedient church out of its slumber. We must take the same steps Jonah did:
1. Wake up. Jonah’s disobedience put the sailors on his ship in peril. Did you realize that when we shirk our responsibility to share the gospel of Christ, others perish? We must get out of our beds of spiritual lethargy and stop ignoring the cries of the unbelieving.
The charismatic church today has ignored the call to evangelism. In many churches we are more interested in getting personal prophecies, having heavenly visitations, interpreting our dreams or seeing gold dust than we are in winning souls. We’ve lost our first love. We’ve become ingrown and self-absorbed. But an alarm has sounded!
2. Look up. Sometimes God allows difficult circumstances to bring His church to repentance. Could this be one reason our economy is squeezing us to a breaking point? Has God sent a storm to blow away the materialism that has made us fat and proud?
Jonah was stripped to the bare essentials by the time he landed in the fish’s belly. He went through a scary digestive process, yet a loving God watched over him. Many of us may face some darkness and discomfort before we emerge empowered for a coming season of revival.
3. Embrace your call. When Jonah repented, he declared: “Salvation is from the Lord” (2:9). How desperately the American church today must embrace again the message of salvation. We must stop running. God wants to use all of us to reach people for Christ. The Lord has given all of us the message of reconciliation, and we must reclaim it anew.
The Christian life is not about you and your needs—it is a call to deny yourself and share the forgiveness of Jesus with everyone around you. If you are a fugitive from the call of God, please turn yourself in today.

TRANSFORMATIONAL MINISTRY OR CONFORMITY

Transformational Ministry or Conformity
by Don Lamb donnetlamb@embarqmail.com

There will always be ongoing differences concerning ministry models and how we go about seeing people revived and kept on track with God. It is a proven fact, that these different models and ministry philosophies can rub each other the wrong way. What I’m about to share is simply my ministry philosophy based on experience and, therefore, it is limited and not perfect. Furthermore, as I address the issue of always looking for the silver-bullet solution in this day of hungering for transformation and breakthrough, I am not offering my views as the silver-bullet only as fuel to provoke others to find the real answers we need. I also realize that those who disagree with my approach can still be powerfully used of God and blessed by His increase without my approval.

Working through different ministry models and expectations is critical to the harmony on any leadership team, especially since many times leadership teams are made up of many individuals that have been on unique and dissimilar journeys.

By the grace of God, in the last ten years, there has begun to emerge leaders who simply are hungry to partner with God in supernatural and practical ways to allow God to bring forth a people who are fully yielded to His purposes and filled with the Spirit to influence their world transformationally. How we get there and how we deal with our individual expectations along the way can be quite challenging. One thing is for sure, we all want vibrant, victorious Jesus-lovers who know their God and know how to work in unison with other believers for the purposes of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Needless to say, we have learned that having a clear vision is not the only factor in producing harmonious leadership and healthy Body life. There is also required an integration of our different expectations and ministry models into one blended work of grace.

One of the things I struggle with, in our present day, is how we try to get results in people’s lives spiritually. Sometimes we can get an end result without true transformation. The end result doesn’t always authenticate the means. I see that leadership in our day is pretty quick to identify the problem, and find a solution, but they are not always good at finding out what the deeper underlying issue is.

For example, how do we see permanent change and sustained victory come to people who are in constant systemic weakness and distraction? Is the sermon content lacking? Is the Sunday morning or Wednesday night format right? Will small groups and accountability help overcome the dragging of spiritual feet for many of our faithful attendees? Some of these issues can contribute to this struggle, but, are these the real answer?

Obviously, because these questions are being asked, there is a lack of motivation and intimacy with God among many of our people. They have a knowledge of the Lord and His Kingdom but they are denying its power and are not being transformed by the renewing of their mind. Life has a grip on them more powerfully than the Word and Spirit of God.

However, inadvertently, through pressure we can unconsciously try to answer this lack of fruit-bearing by trying to conform our people to a higher standard and for a season they may even respond to this pressure. We can get the right result. But are they doing something simply because we are preaching on it? Or are they doing it because they are so in love with God that they listen to him as the ultimate “Authority” and become transformed by full surrender to His Word and Spirit? Are they engaged in the ministries of our church because they see them integrally part of the Kingdom of God or are they just filling a need because leadership makes a desperate plea?

I understand that there is still ignorance within the Body of Christ on certain foundational truths and how the Kingdom of God is expressed through serving in a local congregation. These truths need to be regularly retaught. But this is a smaller percentage of the believers who attend our fellowships than those who already know the foundations and aren’t following through with stepping out and obeying the Kingdom principles they already know, or who are obeying them inconsistently.

The sad reality is that all of our fellowships are mired in some level of immaturity and routine. Even the most visionary and transformationally minded churches have more of a conformity going on inside the Church than transformation. Depending on the size of the body determines how greatly the weight falls on those who are truly committed.

Consequently, leadership teams are tempted to try and address these issues i.e.: lack of tithing, lack of prayer, lack of devotions, lack of commitment and support for the ministries of the local church; lack of personal victory over sin and offenses, by constantly tweaking and introducing practical strategies or focused preaching and format changes (We don’t have many people from such and such age group because we don’t have a program for them, so let’s make this program so we can get them in) and so on.

I’m not saying leadership shouldn’t continue trying to give focus and strategies to overcome these deficiencies and sins in the Church. But there can be a subtle trap of ever changing the system, the sermons, the format, and the venues without coming to the foundational lack in the whole ministry and church, and that is the absence of transformational anointings and mantles on the leadership themselves and the presence of God among us as a whole. We need to look within and see what is yet constricting the full release of the Spirit though leadership.

It is easier to fault the tangible things we do. The sermons are not feeding us. The sanctuary isn’t the best. The lighting and sound system need upgraded. The time we meet is too long or too short. We are too organized. We are too unorganized. As a result, we stay in a continual cycle of finding this or that as the reason why our fellowships don’t break through, when all along is it much deeper and much simpler.

As long as there is a lack of the saturating presence of God in leadership and their level of community together as a team, they will struggle to see the release of the Spirit of breakthrough and obedience in the people. Obviously, there are no excuse for lukewarm living in anyone who comes to our fellowships. We need to hold them to the standard of the Word of God. But part of receiving the glory of God among us is that the leadership team themselves need personal times when they are baptized in their own “upper room” and come away filled with the Spirit declaring the wonders of God to the people.

This will go a long way in helping us harmonize our different ministry callings and teach us to carry our own gifts and anointings with greater wisdom and humility. We need swept up in a flood of inner and outer transformation as leaders and this will set our people up for success in their journey of transformation.

We need to prevail as leadership teams for anointings that will penetrate our own hearts at deeper levels as well as bring our people into transformed lifestyles founded on passionate first-love obedience and not on guilty consciences.

We need to stand together for each other and give grace even as our own journeys for these mantles falters at times through discouragement, busyness, and sin. We cannot give up ourselves until we become those who will “Make level paths for (their) feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.” Hebrews 12:13 (NIV)

STICK TO THE PLAN

Merintis dan melayani “orang terbuang” tidaklah mudah. Ada banyak tantangan bukan saja tenaga, waktu dan uang tetapi harus siap hati. Seperti menolong binatang liar yang terluka, maksud baik kita belum tentu ditanggapi dengan positif.
Belum lagi dalam perintisan ini pun kami belum mendapatkan sokongan dari organisasi lain hingga kami sekeluarga pun bukan hany mencari uang untuk hidupnya roda pelayanan namun juga untuk mencukupi kebutuhan setiap hari.
Kadang terbersit dalam pemikiran kami untuk melepaskan visi yang Tuhan berikan ini dan kembali pelayanan “di tempat normal” kembali.
Namun saat pemikiran itu ada dalam benak, Tuhan menguatkan kami kembali melalui tulisan Bob Gass di bawah ini.

Stick to the Plan
by Bob Gass www.thevine.co.za

I know the plans I have for you.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Today God is saying to you, "While in process, stick to the plan!" Nothing takes God by surprise. He's a master planner. Joseph discovered that when your family turns against you, your friends let you down and you finish up in trouble, God still has a plan. Looking back Joseph could say, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20 NIV). When your situation seems too hard to handle and downright impossible to explain, remind yourself that God said, "I know the plans I have for you."
Some of us are not sure God has made up His mind about us, so we keep trying to earn His favour. Give it up! Receive the truth that God, for Christ's sake, has decided to bless you. And when God decides, temporary situations or the actions of others don't change His decision. There's nothing the enemy devises against you that God hasn't already made 'a way of escape' for. Paul writes, "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Observe: (1) In times of testing you discover how faithful God is. (2) He knows what you can handle. (3) He will "make a way" so you can exit this season stronger, and ready for what He has next. So stick to the plan. The fact that you have a problem is a sign that you have a promise. It's only a matter of time before God reveals the solution.

A TRANSFORMED MIND WILL TRANSFORM WAYS !

A Transformed Mind will Transform Ways!
by Undrai & Bridget Fizer www.fizer.org

My core-beliefs and values will naturally be revealed in my thoughts. The way I "think" is determined by the foundations that naturally produce my "core-being" beliefs. A changed thought is a result of a transformed core. An untransformed "core" will naturally enslave you to the old mind.

The roots of your "core" will determine the "views" from your soul. You can only live "from the view" that is being released from the "core." When the Mind is unrenewed, non-transformed, or not functioning from the Father's Intent, "the vision," or "view," remains the same. The "view" also has "emotions, logic, and personalities" connected to it. So, when you are in a situation in life, your "emotions, logic, and personalities will naturally, without any help from you, respond to what it sees and create a solution that it feels will give you the advantage over the situation, regardless if it's right or wrong!

A knowledge of scripture, with an untransformed mind, will produce "inconsistent ways." You may find yourself "trying to be obedient to God" while being empowered by logic. Since God is a God of faith, a possessor of the ability to "see beyond the logic and into the realms of the Impossible," an untransformed minded "believer" may create "frustrations within themselves" that they may feel is "the devil," but really it's the reality of an "untransformed mind." The person has yet to see that they've become "the devil, or enemy, to their own selves!"

The Word of God reveals the Mind of God. In order to powerfully choose His Mind "we must first see that His Mind is superior and more valuable than what we presently possess." What we naturally value the most "will naturally gain our allegiance." His Mind must become "great" to us and not because He said it was great. You must see "the way that He sees" for yourself.

When "you" see it, and value it, you will become it. And when you become it, no one will have the power to offend you, distract you, or divert you. Believe me, I'm not trying to "motivate you." I'm trying to get you to "see what's in you already." But there needs to be a change of one's core-thought.

Your desire to live Life from how God created you "will naturally determine the success and effectiveness of you in your own life." Your desire to "be" what the Lord naturally created you to "be," must be the master that detours all of the distractions of life. It must be the master that eradicates the intimate connections between those things that now serve as "the influences that make transformation uncomfortable and inconsistent." YOU must be the one that now becomes intimate with your sonship and responsibility in the Kingdom. Because whatever you are intimate with "will naturally create influence."

When the influence of the certain "is greater" than the Intentions of God, the "certain" will always win out, even if the intellectual mind does not want it to. This is why it's impossible to merely change the way you think "without also divorcing the influences that create the ways that are birthed from what you think!" Your thinking is in partnership with various influences that determine the ways that are released from you.

A transformed mind "will also transform partnerships," which in turn, will naturally produce "transformed ways!"

ACCEPTING MY DESIGN

Accepting My Design
by Os Hillman www.marketplaceleaders.org

"Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?" (Rom 9:21).
My wife and I like to go to movies. She often comments about the lips of beautiful actresses: "Check those lips out! Boy, God sure short-changed me in the lip category," she laments. She has always felt her lips were too thin. Her girlfriends find her concern humorous and often kid her about it.
Have you ever wished that God made you differently? Perhaps you wished you were more athletic or could have a totally different career. Or perhaps you wished you were prettier or taller or even have a different nose.
God made every person differently and for different purposes. Not everyone is made to be in the public eye. Some are made to serve behind the scenes. It is important to know and be at peace with how and why God made you.
Paul tells us in Romans that we are all crafted out of the same clay. There is no one molded and shaped like you, No one has the exact personality as you. Your DNA is one of a kind.
God uses the common to produce the uncommon. No matter how inferior you may feel you are in a particular area, God desires to use you for His purposes. Your unique qualities are made to fit with the way He plans to use you for His purposes. This is why we must accept our uniqueness. We want His power to be manifested in our uniqueness.
Thank God today for the way He made you.

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