Coming Alive

On this Father's day, we want us to reflect on how God's preferred relationship with us is father.

And no one displayed that so well than Jesus did.

Can you imagine a google maps kind of thing for your whole life? It is more like what it looks to be led by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit take control of our whole lives.

Holy Spirit Enables us to Live Act and Love like Jesus today.

To be continuously guided, empowered, and controlled by the Holy Spirit, is not a one-time event, it is an ongoing, daily surrender of your will to God's influence.

This Sunday we gather, to join in the disciples in celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit the breath of God.

It seems that when God desires to move in a transformative way around the world, he invites a person or a community.

Matthew 9:35-38

Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,“The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest

to send out labourers into his harvest. ”

Jesus asks Peter to do three things: feed my lambs, take care of my sheep, and feed my sheep.

We are all on some kind of road in life. Maybe it is a joyous road. Maybe for someone here it has been a tough road and even tougher it has been for a long time and you quite do not know how this ends. For someone else you are on a tough road at

work...you cannot quite tell how things will work out. For someone else you are on a tough road in your family...I cannot even name them all...but we are all on some road in

life!

To sum it all up, we live in a very uncertain and unpredictable world...where the toughest thing is to make sense of all that is unfolding and what needs to happen next

Welcome to this week's conversation. We keep on exploring the resurrection stories and how they shape and form us.

We meet the disciples at one of their lowest points.Their worlds had just been turned upside down.

It had been one long weekend. One moment on Thursday evening they are having a wonderful passover meal with Jesus, nest he is being arrested and before a day is over he has been scourged, condemned to die, crucified, dead and buried. This is not a light matter and we can begin to empathise with what the disciples might be going through on this Sunday evening.

They are huddled together in a quiet room. Locked tight. Bowing in sorrow and fear...