I need your help!
Next month (Jan 2009), we kick off a New Year's series called "UN-certain." We're going to be addressing the most pressing uncertainties / stresses / concerns / fears that people face.
Now…here's how YOU can help:
What would YOU recommend we cover over the 4 weeks of January?
- 2009 uncertainties?
- New Year's stresses?
- Pressing concerns?
- Common fears?
Post your brainstorm ideas in the comments section here…read other people's comments…and watch how God uses our discussion here to guide our January topics & address some SERIOUS uncertainties that we & our friends deal with.
Thanks!
Tim, employment layoffs is a huge fear right now. Most likely everyone either knows of someone going through it or is going through it themselves.
I am being challenged with making some of those tough decisions myself this week.
I would be interested in your insite.
Tim, how about addressing the uncertainties of sharing your faith. I have fears of talking with a total stranger about Christ or fear of being asked a question about GOD, Jesus Christ or the Bible and not knowing it. I get stress sometimes when given the opportunity to share Jesus and I end up not taking action. How do we overcome these things and move from being out of our comfort zone to this becoming our comfort zone!
I can think of two books that have helped in the past, Don’t Fake it Say it with Love by Howard Hendricks and How to Give Away Your Faith by Paul E. Little. What I really need is action! I need to GO!
Here are some big uncertainties people who haven’t yet accepted Jesus as their personal savior may carry around. It would be great if we could address some of these in our our January series.
The “unspeakable uncertainties” of life:
– Uncertainty about who I am, why I exist, and what my purpose in life is.
– Uncertainty about who God is, what he’s done for me lately, and why it should even matter to me.
– Uncertainty about how God could possibly love me when…I don’t deserve it and I don’t even like myself for what I’ve done.
– Uncertainty about why I never feel content, why I’m always looking for something I never seem to find, and why I’m so unhappy and dissatisfied in life.
– Uncertainty about why if God is good he has let such bad things happen in my life.
I know these are big topics, but they represent huge opportunities to transform lives for eternity.
i am always uncertain about the state of my relationships with other people. I can’t seem to “rest.” I need it fixed, like yesterday. Spouse, friends, aquantances, pastors, people I don’t even know yet ;]
oh, and I’m not even sure there is a problem… but their might be.. see, I’m uncertain. ;]
Our family has been discemated by alcohol addiction and domestic violence for going on 21 years. Through this process we have been at 2 different congregational homes (not Grace) both times there was such a lack of understanding, accountability, knowledge about addiction and about violence and it’s impact on the family. I was told I could change this situation by prayer and by being a “believing” wife. This cursed me, as a young girl seeking to please God and keep her family together, to years of pain and suffering for herself and most of all for her children. I now believe God did not intend for us to bear this treatment. People are afraid to help and they don’t know how, nor what is the proper biblical approach. The woman is not only afraid to leave for obvious reasons but she is also afraid to disappoint God. I feel there are more young women standing where I stood and who could be helped by a message of hope and understanding. They need to God know God does not want that for his daughters.
Great ideas. Some very important issues to talk about.
Anyone else have brainstorming ideas or recommendations about what we should talk about during our “UN-certain” series in January?