Monday's Mention...2/4/13

For starters, how cool was worship yesterday morning? I loved it and was glad to be a part of it. 

I ran across this picture this past week: (via Amazing Things)

There's an old sermon illustration that goes like this:

A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he drew nearer he noticed that the local man kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said: "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it’s low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up here from lack of oxygen."
I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don’t you realise this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast? Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?"
The local man smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied: "Made a difference to that one!"
—Jack Canfield and Mark V Hansen

Christ's commission in Matthew 28 - "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

This is an overwhelming task, but the bigness of the need shouldn't stop us in our tracks. Who are you pouring yourself into right now? You don't have to know all the answers, you don't have to be a professional, we are called to pour ourselves into the lives of others and give them what has been given to us. 

We are made for multiplication. Disciples making disciples. 

Becoming rooted,

Rodney