Salt and Light Part 2

On Sunday we shared from Matthew 5:13-16 - being the salt and light.

Interestingly, that the traditional way of understanding this passage is that sin makes us lose our saltiness and we hide our good works under our beds!

However:

- Salt is used for flavouring, curing and preserving food.

- The Greek words for losing saltiness, in this passage, MARINO, actually means: to be foolish, (sin, silly mistakes, repeated bad choices etc).

- The Greek word for light, in this passage, is PHOS. When phosphorous hits water it glows brightly therefore we are to burn brightly for Jesus.

Conclusion:

When we avoid being foolish, we can shine for Jesus in being the flavour of the universe!

Robbing God

On Sunday we shared around our responsibility to faithfully manage all that God has given us - i.e. family, work and church:
(Malachi 3: 6-12).

By withholding out Tithes we compromise the churches ability to fulfil Christ's commission:

- To learn to love God
- To learn to love our neighbours

At North Rand, we commit ourselves to fulfilling God's call on us a church for 2011 as we read our convenental vow!

Managing Our Responsibilities

On Sunday we shared, as part of our annual stewardship series, around God's guidance for managing of our responsibilities.

Now, when most of us hear the word, 'stewardship,' we might immediately think of a sermon or teaching on GIVING!!!

But stewardship is some much more.

It involves our managing ALL things we are to be responsible for:

- FAMILY
- WORK
- CHURCH
- ENVIRONMENT
- UNIVERSE

So, we are given this responsibilty but also the MEANS.

We can chose to follow God's guidelines, as laid out in Scripture, or we try to do it ourselves.