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WEEKLY MISSION HIGHLIGHT

Full Circle Communities   

As an urban plant of St. Paul Plano, Full Circle's mission is to: 

Reach, Establish, & Send Mature Disciples of Jesus Christ in the urban context, empowering individuals to positively impackt the communities where they live.


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Invocation

God our Father, when Your Son entered this world, there was clarity in His purpose.  The redemption of the fallen human race was His mission.  By Your grace we have been redeemed.  May Your mission be clear in our hearts and minds that all we say and do would bring Your Gospel to those who do not know You and to those who need Your promise repeated again and again, in the name of Him who is, was, and is to come, Jesus.  Amen.   

   
Reading   Luke 2:32-59;  Psalm 102 

Reflection

           What business are you in?  In the world of commerce, it's an important question.  If your business is making widgets, everything you do had better involve making widgets.  If it's serving customers, you had better serve customers.  Businesses that lose sight of their main purpose---what business are we in?-soon fail.

            The church is not a business per se.  Sure, it has elements that need to performed with integrity and order and competency, in a business-like way.  So, we use sound principles of accounting, for example, as well as much more.

            A bigger question for every church, and every Christian, is this: what is my main purpose?  Why do I do what I do, say what a say, think what I think?  What gets me out of bed in the morning?  What brings my greatest joy?

            In the older translations of Luke 2:49, the 12 year-old-Jesus in the temple  says: "Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business?",  while newer translations say "Didn't you know  I had to be in my Father's house?  The literal translation is ambiguous:  "it is necessary for me to be about 'the things of my Father.'"     However you translate it, even Jesus as a young man knew that He had to be about His Father's business.  He knew this from the beginning to the end.  One of His final prayers, the one in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before He was to be crucified ended:  "Father, not My will, but Your will be done."  His Father's business, not His own, was to be done.

            Ultimately, the Father's business was the salvation of the world, and only Jesus could do that.  However, we are His sub-contractors, if you will.  We bring  the salvation of Jesus to this lost world in His name and by His grace, in whatever way God has gifted us.  That is our purpose, our business.  And as one of my parishioners stated so well:  "If it's not all about Jesus, it's not about Jesus at all."  We are all about Jesus.  That's our business.

 

Pastor Randy Haedge

 

Pray  (As you pray include . . . people who don't know Christ; people who will plant & witness; people who pray. )  

 

Benediction

Go in peace, certain in the knowledge of your calling in God's kingdom.  Amen.
Note: Those items that are bold italic are newly added items to the prayer page

Pray that the members of the Texas District embrace the mission.

Pray for Missionaries and their Families -----
For the Preparation of new Church Planters who are ready to enter into this challenging and difficult ministry in Texas and throughout the nation

For the Center for Us Mission CPAC.  Pray that men and their families are raised up for vital church planting in our church body.

For the unseen workers in neighborhoods and communities in Texas and around the world.
For Rev. John Raddatz, Joy Lutheran Church,  Houston.

For Mr. Dyakar Moparty, LINC Houston, Indian Fellowship, Tomball

For your own pastoral leadership

For church planter coaches and those being coached

For those preparing for the ministry, that they recognize the heart and desire of Christ in every ministry to which they are called.
Pray for New Missions -----
For the Holy Spirit to guide the formation of Abiding Word Lutheran Church in Gonzales, Texas

For Hope Lutheran, Marble Falls, planted in connection with Genesis, Buchanan Dam

For Grace Community Church (Pakistani / Indian)

 

Rev. Ed Benarsi is starting Pakistani worship at Our Savior, Austin on Sunday evening, Feb 20.  pray for effective outreach and God's blessings on this new beginning.
For Mission Marble Falls as it launches worship.

For Redeemer, Austin to strategize and implement childcare outreach.

For St. Paul, McAllen as they investigate a new start with SMP Vicar Mr. Andrew Perry 

For St. Peter, Roanoke as it becomes a Texas Dist Church Planting Training Partner 

For the development of mission in the northeast corner of Area A and Candelaria

 

For St. John Cypress as they look for their next mission start.

 

For Epiphany, Pearland as they continue to develop their multi-site ministry.

 

For Mission Liberty Hill
Pray for Continuing and Key Events -----
For congregations to make bringing Christ to communities their top priority

For strong fellowship development among like minded witnesses

For Missional Worker Training in Area C

For the search for Director for LINC San Antonio
For Hope, Lubbock as they discern their next mission step

For the Circuit Four Convocation in March, focusing on college  ministries at the many campus' in West Texas.

For the Ten new church starts in Area B

For continued support for LINC
For POBLO and a new Ethnic Mission Plant in partnership with Our Savior, Rockwall.

St Paul, Ft Worth / The Summit at Aledo as they search for direction concerning their next Multi-Site Mission location

For 10% of the Baptized members of TxDistLCMS to pray for mission
For workers as they gather together that the Mission of God be foremost in their discussions and that such resides in the hearts and mind's of each participant.
Pray for Congregations to grow in their discipleship response to the Gospel including their financial support for kingdom work.   For Stewardship Resources click here. 
Message to Partners -----
Blessings,

Rev. Steven Misch
Texas District LCMS
806-433-4536