Easter

The supermarkets have reminded me that Easter is coming upon us… but is it really!?! Come on its not for another 2 months!! & its post-TWBC (Tasmanian Women’s Bible Conference) which is how I am ganging the first half of the year! :)

So I have decided to not eat any easter eggs, or bunnies, or hot cross buns until I am in Bicheno having a very relaxing weekend with my family! Can’t wait for that easter egg hunt! :)

Evangelism

We recently listened to a talk by Tim Keller at our youth group leaders retreat about how the evangelism methods we have been using are no longer effective because of the shifts in society. In fact, Keller called for a complete transformation in the way that we spread the gospel. He did give hints on how to do this in his talk. But it led me to think…

Do evangelism tools such as 6 Steps To Talking About Jesus no longer work?
Do we have to change our whole thinking about how to present the gospel so that we can be effective in spreading the word of Jesus in this postmodern society?
Or has postmodernism not reached Tassie yet!?! :)

Bible Reading

At TLC Andrew Reid reminded me how important reading the Bible regularly really is…

We often tend not to enforce the importance of reading the bible every day to stay away from legalism. We know it’s a good thing to do, but if you can’t find the time we say, “oh that’s ok, cause you don’t want it to be legalistic do you!?!”. It's almost like legalism has become an excuse for the lazy!

Andrew gave the great example of when we are training for something we work hard at it, we create habits to help us fulfill our goals.

So as Christians, who want to get to know more about our great God, why should we not create habits to help us do that? And reading the bible daily is a fantastic habit to help with this, & if it is done with the Holy Spirit & prayer this could not be legalistic, could it?