My encouragement to TrueLifers is to cultivate a relationship with the Holy Spirit in 2012.  You can listen to Sunday’s message here: http://blog.mytruelife.org/2012/01/09/the-holy-spirit-week-1-the-person-of-the-holy-spirit-jan-8-2012/

Growing your relationship with the Holy Spirit (like any relationship) takes time and focused energy.  The number one distraction to cultivating this relationship is distraction itself.  We can fill our lives with so much white noise that we can no longer hear the leading of God’s Spirit.

Here is my challenge for this week:

Let the Holy Spirit Guide you this week:

Monday – Begin your prayer time with, “Holy Spirit please help me to pray….” Let the Holy Spirit lead your time.
Tuesday – Begin your day with, “Holy Spirit, please teach me something new about Jesus today”.  Be on the lookout for something new.
Wednesday – Spend at least ten minutes listening to the Holy Spirit
Thursday – Spend a few minutes worshipping the Holy Spirit.
Friday – Invite the Holy Spirit to fill your life with His presence.
Saturday – Invite the Holy Spirit to lead our church as we gather together on Sunday.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to anoint the worship team and Pastor Mark.

Today’s Question: How do you handle spiritual gifts in a service?

(This question originally aired on January 22, 2008)

Pentecostal Community needs to be discussed.  Here is the simple outline from last night.  I hope it spurs conversation in Chi Alpha & in us.

What does it mean to be a “pentecostal” community?

We must be in community. (Deut 16: 11; Acts 2:1)

To be “in” community you must?
1. have like heart
2. have shared burdens
3. have joint commitment

We must be inclusive (Deut 16:11; Acts 1:13-14)

We must be missional

A Missional Community:
1. Has clear purpose. (John 21:3; Acts 3:6-8)

2.  Brings healing to their community.

3. Is culturally relevant.  (Acts 2:12-13)

4. Remains externally focused.  (Acts 2:14-21)

If you love people who are postmodern creatives, then you need to add this lesson to your to do list.  Cultural Creatives are the idea generators that are changing our culture.  They drive the throughts behind the technology that is driving the mad dash of the metamorphases of cuture.

These creatives are pooling in areas in our country.  They are gathering in cities like San Fransisco, Seattle, Austin, and Raleigh/Durham.

Here is a link to Earl Crep’s Podcast: http://earlcreps.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=278911#

I have setup an account at twitter named: truelifeprayer.  If you want to be a part of this team: You can setup a twitter account, and start following truelifeprayer.

We will also be meeting once a month for a time of encouragment and prayer togther.  I will be talking more about this on Sunday.  My goal of this team is to challenge each other to build a Biblical life of prayer by having a lifestyle that is continuously praying.

How will I be using the twitter prayer team?

I will not be updating you with everything I am doing in a day.  (I just refilled my third cup of coffee on this Monday, but the twitter prayer team is not for updating that info).

Truelifeprayer will be twittering things like:

• Mark is about to  study for Sunday’s Message.  Please pray for God’s wisdom.
• John Doe’s gradma was hurt.  Please pray for healing.
• Pray for the lost in Brier Creek today.

Here is a video that walks through Twitter: