Comments on: Weekend Reflections: Fear, Faith and Adventure http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pastor Chris http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/comment-page-1/#comment-2968 Pastor Chris Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:05:52 +0000 http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/#comment-2968 I have always found both Peter and Abraham really interesting characters to study. Both of them are held up as heroes of faith, but both of them messed up big time! Yet God used heroic failures - because they were willing to go? Because they were willing to trust? Because they were willing to listen to the master’s voice and not those of the people around them? Whatever the cost? I’m glad he still uses us failures… Terah struck me as I prepared. Often I have heard preachers criticise him for only going to Haran. But he went. Under his son’s vision, calling. How many of us would be willing to uproot our family from the safety and security of civilised Ur, to go to somewhere – “not sure where dad” and live in a tent for the rest of their lives? I guess two things come out: 1. Are we willing to see what God is doing in other’s lives and go with them, honour them and walk with them? 2. How important is it that we hear God’s voice, call to us personally? Yet so often, when God speaks, it is counter-comfort. Illogical. Safer to stay than go? Why leave the safety and security of the boat, or Ur for the wilds of the unknown? Bring on the pioneers… I have always found both Peter and Abraham really interesting characters to study. Both of them are held up as heroes of faith, but both of them messed up big time!

Yet God used heroic failures – because they were willing to go? Because they were willing to trust? Because they were willing to listen to the master’s voice and not those of the people around them? Whatever the cost?

I’m glad he still uses us failures…

Terah struck me as I prepared. Often I have heard preachers criticise him for only going to Haran. But he went. Under his son’s vision, calling. How many of us would be willing to uproot our family from the safety and security of civilised Ur, to go to somewhere – “not sure where dad” and live in a tent for the rest of their lives?

I guess two things come out:

1. Are we willing to see what God is doing in other’s lives and go with them, honour them and walk with them?
2. How important is it that we hear God’s voice, call to us personally? Yet so often, when God speaks, it is counter-comfort. Illogical. Safer to stay than go? Why leave the safety and security of the boat, or Ur for the wilds of the unknown?

Bring on the pioneers…

]]> By: Graham Chastney http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/comment-page-1/#comment-2967 Graham Chastney Sun, 31 May 2009 16:30:09 +0000 http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/#comment-2967 Thanks for the comments Andy. Thanks for the comments Andy.

]]> By: Andy Cross http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/comment-page-1/#comment-2966 Andy Cross Sat, 30 May 2009 16:20:34 +0000 http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/#comment-2966 Hello I brought my parents to FFMC last week in the morning (they usually go to Cleveleys Baptist Church) and my Dad made an interesting comment which I hope will be of interest/benefit to someone. The minister at their Church was recently preaching on the story of Peter walking on the water coming from a slightly different perspective..... We often focus on the Jesus vs Peter encounter but what about the other disciples in the boat? Were they wrong to stay in the boat full of fear and not copy Peter's example? The suggestion was that we should not criticise the other disciples for staying in the boat as Jesus did not command any others to get out of the boat and walk on water. Without Jesus' specific command which we know created and sustains all things, they surely would have drowned if they had tried to copy Peter!!! The key is being ready to act on Jesus' command - do what he says and when he says it. Maybe there are instances where we as individual Christians/Churches "step out of the boat" just for the sake of "stepping out of the boat" - just because someone else or another Church is doing it and without any specific command from Jesus. Hello

I brought my parents to FFMC last week in the morning (they usually go to Cleveleys Baptist Church) and my Dad made an interesting comment which I hope will be of interest/benefit to someone. The minister at their Church was recently preaching on the story of Peter walking on the water coming from a slightly different perspective…..

We often focus on the Jesus vs Peter encounter but what about the other disciples in the boat? Were they wrong to stay in the boat full of fear and not copy Peter’s example?

The suggestion was that we should not criticise the other disciples for staying in the boat as Jesus did not command any others to get out of the boat and walk on water. Without Jesus’ specific command which we know created and sustains all things, they surely would have drowned if they had tried to copy Peter!!!

The key is being ready to act on Jesus’ command – do what he says and when he says it.

Maybe there are instances where we as individual Christians/Churches “step out of the boat” just for the sake of “stepping out of the boat” – just because someone else or another Church is doing it and without any specific command from Jesus.

]]> By: Wilma F. Salido http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/comment-page-1/#comment-2965 Wilma F. Salido Sat, 30 May 2009 06:28:28 +0000 http://www.fulwoodfmc.net/blog/2009/05/26/weekend-reflections-fear-faith-and-adventure/#comment-2965 Truly the faith of Abraham is very encouraging. - when he left his father's house in obedience to God's call - when he waited 25 years for the birth of the son God promised him - when he courageously bargained with God for Sodom and Gomorrah - when he let go of Ishmael at God's word - and when he obediently prepared Isaac to be a burnt offering. As this story was given us to be our pattern of the kind of faith we should have, may it be in us. For God's glory. Truly the faith of Abraham is very encouraging.
- when he left his father’s house in obedience to God’s call
- when he waited 25 years for the birth of the son God promised him
- when he courageously bargained with God for Sodom and Gomorrah
- when he let go of Ishmael at God’s word
- and when he obediently prepared Isaac to be a burnt offering.

As this story was given us to be our pattern of the kind of faith we should have, may it be in us. For God’s glory.

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