Day 152 - teaching our staff.

Day 152 and I spent the day educating our staff.
Being a global church is at the core of Redeemer's Church - but how can we be global if even our staff are ignorant to the biggest global event happening.
Three billion people will watch this global event.
It is not beyond exaggeration that the world will nearly stop for four weeks as this global event takes place .....except the US!

This global event, even global history is the FIFA World Cup being held in South Africa.

But our staff, most of our church, most of our country are absent (except Tom Cruise interestingly ....something to do with a friendship with David Beckham!).

So .....alongside blogging nearly every day about how I intentionally followed Jesus today, I will try to help those who read my blog become global people by updating you on what everyone else in the world has been a part of over the next four weeks.
here's the video of England team leaving London to fly to South Africa - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8717146.stm

My intentional follow of Jesus today was to help our staff be global.

It also involved praying for our friends Jake & Renee in Guatemala as they help people left homeless due to the recent volcano.
It also involved beginning to write the first preach in our new series The Star, The Cross and The Crescent. Trying to speak into the global conflict of our world ....a clash of three religions.
We need to learn what's happening on our globe - misunderstanding is causing more conflict.
We need to learn how to handle truth without falling into the arrogance of truth.
we need to be in relationship with our neighbors in a very small, village globe.

Following Christ is now, as it always was, a life that is to bless every nation.