Lloyd's Musings
The blog of Lloyd Rankin, National Director of Vineyard Churches Aotearoa NZ.
Loving the Ordinary
In my last posting I talked about living an integrated life – that there is no divide between sacred and secular, or spiritual and unspiritual when you are living in relationship with God. Christ lives in us and He invites us to live a life with Him not for Him. I talk to so many [...]
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 [...]