{"id":686,"date":"2007-06-07T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T13:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/good_news_shari.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"good_news_shari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/good_news_shari.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Good News Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at our midweek service, we simply had a session of good news sharing.  This is a tried and true ICOC tradition that would degrade at times into &#8220;I did a good deed&#8221; sharing instead.  However, while giving the congregation an opportunity to share what God&#8217;s doing can be risky in that you don&#8217;t have control over what is said, it can also be profoundly up lifting and faith building.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard folks complain that they don&#8217;t like these sessions because they feel cheated.  They don&#8217;t get anything out of it.  My response to that is, are you listening?  Here&#8217;s some things I heard last night:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This was Mat&#8217;s first service back with us.  It&#8217;s been a month since I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/001383.shtml\">updated you<\/a> and in that time he was moved out of the ICU to the James Cancer Center.  I&#8217;m not sure when he was released, but I suspect it was within the last week.  But he was there last night and he stood up with Jess as she shared for the two of them what an <em>encouraging<\/em> journey it has been.  All the support of the church, seeing Mat sharing about Jesus with anything that moved in the hospital to how his doctor&#8217;s office took up an amazing collection to help them pay for their wedding.  As Jess shared, they were responsible for him being alive, yet they were still giving to them.  Through it all, they were drawn closer irresistibly to God.<\/li>\n<li>Mark and Sandie (yes Jeff, <em>that<\/em> Mark and Sandie) stood up and shared that their newly adopted baby boy was officially and legally theirs now.  If you knew them, you&#8217;d understand that it was an answered prayer that Sandie was <em>standing<\/em>, let alone standing and holding her own son up high.<\/li>\n<li>Cheri stood and shared about her niece.  This young woman, who&#8217;s she&#8217;s shared about and asked for prayers for in the past, has spent most of her 18 years in abusive relationships.  Her mother was married to an abuser who isolated her from her family.  He was recently convicted of that abuse and sentenced to 18 years as a result.  Escaping that into foster care, she was placed with a foster parent who behaved the same way.  She&#8217;s known nothing but abusive situations and when given the opportunity to escape a few years ago, chose to stay because it was all she knew.<br \/>\nLast night, thanking the church for their prayers, Cheri shared through tears that &#8220;Tomorrow I&#8217;m finally picking her up and bringing her <em>home<\/em>.&#8221;  That emphasis was her&#8217;s not mine.  That&#8217;s how she said it, she will finally be <em>home<\/em>.  She&#8217;s spend years loving her through praying for her, researching the psychology behind her situation and reaching out to her.  It&#8217;s only for a few weeks, but the joy in Cherri was obvious that all of that effort in love was finally bearing fruit.<br \/>\nThis made me think of the parallels to our own lives.  We spend years in an abusive world, trying to meet it&#8217;s demands and follow it&#8217;s ways.  It beats us up no matter how we try, but we keep trying.  God is there, calling us out, but we return because it is all we know to do.  He hurts each time we do, but He does not give up.  When we finally decide to turn from the world and to Him, I imagine that His tears of joy are as real as Cheri&#8217;s as he says &#8220;I&#8217;m finally picking them up and bringing them <em>home<\/em>.&#8221;  No wonder the angels rejoice.<\/li>\n<li>Erica stood and shared about her reaching out to a coworker and a work social function.  The conversation turned to his social life and she mentioned that he should stop some reckless behavior.  He said something about how he needed something in his life.  Erica immediately though &#8220;God, I guess that&#8217;s my cue.&#8221; and shared with him about Jesus and our church.<br \/>\nWhat an amazing heart.  How many times do I miss my cue?  Am in tune with God&#8217;s spirit the way she was, always on alert, waiting for my cue?  God made the hand off, ans she ran with the ball. Too often, I fumble because I&#8217;m not ready or paying attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I heard last night.  There was more.  I didn&#8217;t share about the news from the Amazing Race statewide teen event that we hosted last weekend, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindrightproduction.com\/\">Big City<\/a> Christain hip-hop concert last Saturday that moved teens into their Bibles and encouraged his heart as well or about our new summer campus interns that are already bearing fruit after only being here a week.<br \/>\nYou could argue that our minister got a pass last night, not having to prepare a lesson.  I would say no, he just stepped aside for a minute to make sure that God was getting center stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at our midweek service, we simply had a session of good news sharing. 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