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MERGE Retreat 2011 sessions now available for download
MERGE 2011 was an amazing experience. Over 120 young adults from across NSW gathered at The Tops to be encouraged and inspired and provoked to engage in the Mission of God in this world and to understand our faith and life as those sent by Christ.
The sessions are available here for download, listen to them in the car, on the train and share them with your friends and continue to be inspired. Leave your thoughts and feedback on the Merge Facebook page.
Also remember MERGE RETREAT 2012 is happening on May 25-27. so stay tuned...
MERGE Retreat 2011 Session 1: Matt Destry- The Active Mission of God
MP3 (2896KB)
Mission sometimes gets sidelined as something that happens overseas and we raise money for by selling cakes. But mission is actually so much more. It is the very heart of God, a God who acts in this world, who pursues those he loves and who continues to carry out his restorative purposes in a broken and hurting place... this is the mission of our great God, and the mission to which we are called.
Mission sometimes gets sidelined as something that happens overseas and we raise money for by selling cakes. But mission is actually so much more. It is the very heart of God, a God who acts in this world, who pursues those he loves and who continues to carry out his restorative purposes in a broken and hurting place... this is the mission of our great God, and the mission to which we are called.
MERGE Retreat 2011 Session 2: Sam Haddon- The Divine Sending
MP3 (16375KB)
God is at work in his world. And the greatest image of His incredible mission is in the sending of Jesus. The divine became flesh. "As the Father has sent me so I am sending you..."
God is at work in his world. And the greatest image of His incredible mission is in the sending of Jesus. The divine became flesh. "As the Father has sent me so I am sending you..."
MERGE Retreat 2011 Session 3: Colin Scott- Sent Ones
MP3 (15609KB)
Colin Scott from Global Mission Partners shares the heart of those called to follow Jesus, those sent into the world as he had been sent, to continue His unfolding purposes wherever they would find themselves- Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and even the ends of the World... What does this look like today as we continue to be sent?
Colin Scott from Global Mission Partners shares the heart of those called to follow Jesus, those sent into the world as he had been sent, to continue His unfolding purposes wherever they would find themselves- Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and even the ends of the World... What does this look like today as we continue to be sent?
MERGE Retreat 2011 Session 4: Jon Owen- What is we lived as sent?
MP3 (26511KB)
Jon Owen from UNOH Australia passionately shares about what it might look like here and now if the people Jesus sends begin to see themselves as people on a mission. What would it look like in action; in compassion; in society transformation... How would the world respond?
Jon Owen from UNOH Australia passionately shares about what it might look like here and now if the people Jesus sends begin to see themselves as people on a mission. What would it look like in action; in compassion; in society transformation... How would the world respond?
MERGE Retreat 2010 sessions now available for download.
MERGE Retreat Session 1: Edwina Blair- Seamless Faith
MP3 Audio (15459KB)
Edwina opened the weekend and challenged us to view our faith as one holistic all encompassing faith that defines our very life...
Edwina opened the weekend and challenged us to view our faith as one holistic all encompassing faith that defines our very life...
MERGE Retreat Session 2: Matt Destry- The full picture of Salvation
MP3 (16739KB)
In our Westernised and cultural faith we have painted a picture of salvation that is all about 'Me and God' or 'Me and my golden ticket to heaven'. But is this picture of Gods salvation work in Jesus actually what we see when we view the whole narrative of Gods salvation work?
In our Westernised and cultural faith we have painted a picture of salvation that is all about 'Me and God' or 'Me and my golden ticket to heaven'. But is this picture of Gods salvation work in Jesus actually what we see when we view the whole narrative of Gods salvation work?
MERGE Retreat Session 3: Greg Bellingham- An Intergrated Life (The Kingdom is within you)
MP3 (14734KB)
Jesus expressed the truth that the 'Kingdom of God is within you'. Yet we so often struggle to see what that is or what it means. Greg encourages us to see the Kingdom within us and live in an expectancy that it will issue forth in power as Jesus promised.
Jesus expressed the truth that the 'Kingdom of God is within you'. Yet we so often struggle to see what that is or what it means. Greg encourages us to see the Kingdom within us and live in an expectancy that it will issue forth in power as Jesus promised.
MERGE Retreat Session 4: Matt Anslow- Being Beauty
MP3 (11856KB)
Matt Anslow redirects our focus onto the character of our creative God who expressed himself through his creation and continues to express himself in us and around us through the beauty we encounter.
Matt Anslow redirects our focus onto the character of our creative God who expressed himself through his creation and continues to express himself in us and around us through the beauty we encounter.
MERGE Retreat Session 5: Greg Bellingham- Being and Doing
MP3 (16552KB)
We are empowered to live the NEW LIFE of Jesus' way by the presence of His Spirit in our life. Sometimes we get so caught up in what we think we need to be doing to be seen to be living this new life that we fail to stop and see who God is calling is calling us to be- Jesus is at work transforming our 'being' not merely our 'doing'
We are empowered to live the NEW LIFE of Jesus' way by the presence of His Spirit in our life. Sometimes we get so caught up in what we think we need to be doing to be seen to be living this new life that we fail to stop and see who God is calling is calling us to be- Jesus is at work transforming our 'being' not merely our 'doing'
