Lloyd's Musings
The blog of Lloyd Rankin, National Director of Vineyard Churches Aotearoa NZ.
An invitation to live an integrated life
We all come in to the Kingdom with large amounts of cultural baggage and beliefs, and spend a lifetime replacing it with Kingdom truth and experiencing corresponding freedom John 8:31-32 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the [...]
Using the Different Resource Areas
Last Sunday I was teaching on the privilege of being a servant or steward. We were reflecting on how God invites us to be servants or stewards (i.e. – using/managing/stewarding God’s resources that come into our hands to accomplish God’s purposes in our generation). The thought was how that is actually an incredibly generous invitation [...]
Spiritual Formation
The goal of discipleship is to become like Jesus. Galatians 4:19 (TNIV) “My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you…” We have the privilege and task of both becoming disciples (Christ being formed in us) ourselves, and discipling others – like Paul, labouring to [...]
Keeping discipling on our agenda
A couple of weeks ago wr brought together 120 of our key leaders from around NZ. They along with others are spending this year participating in a year long learning experience called GROW2010.
We focussed on the key tasks of churches and leaders – being disciples and making disciples. It is incredible how hard we must [...]
Loving the church
Ok – sorry for the lack of blogs over the last couple of weeks – I am now back in New Zealand after being in Costa Rica for the past 10 days and having only intermittent access to the internet. (And the unwelcome addition of a few days being really sick at home with bronchitis [...]