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September/2010

Hi Friends,


Happy first day of fall! We are entering the season of the feast of Tabernacles on the Hebrew calender - a season of joy, glory, and the ingathering of the harvest! As we continue the next 2 weeks of our Green Your Life series, we will focus this Sunday on having a fresh faith that gets stronger through trials, and the following Sunday on releasing the transforming power of God in the environment around us.


Our simple focus at New Life is Loving God, Growing Together, and Serving Others. On Sunday, October 3rd, we will have launch an initiative that is in the "serve others" category: prayer. We want to adopt every street in our community, beginning with streets we each live on, for targeted prayer. We can Green our World and change the spiritual climate in our city by standing in prayer as the people of God!


If you would like to get a head start and  adopt your street today, click here to create an account and adopt your street. (Be sure to select "Pray Novato" as the prayer initiative you'd like to join when adopting your street). 


We look forward to seeing you Sunday!


Love in Jesus,


Caleb & Rachel Klinge


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Tuesdays are trash days at our house.  That means every Monday evening we go through the same ritual of taking the trash cans out to the curb.  Notably, the actual trash can is the smallest container.  The recycle receptacle is much larger as well as the green can for yard clippings.

 

   It's obvious to most residents that the message is clear: reduce, reuse, and recycle.   Not everything is to be discarded.  In the same way, we need to recognize that our relationships are meant to be sustainable, not disposable.  It's time to recognize and get rid of the consumer mentality in our relationships.  In no way are our relationships to be used up and thrown away.  Strong, healthy, covenant relations are to be a regular part of the body of Christ. The key to covenant relationships is not trying to find the right person. It is being the right person.

 
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Green Your Love

Rachel Klinge

 

1 Peter 4:8 tells us that "above all things have fervent (intense & unfailing) love among yourselves."   A renewal of love may be needed.  This can take time and effort, but the pay off is well worth the labor.

Take time to check for areas in your heart where unnecessary baggage has piled up-those small offenses that never decompose.  1 Corinthians 13 tells us that love keeps no records of wrongs done to it.
  
 It may not be trash day at your house, but remember:  It's time to Reduce the bags of unforgiveness and bitterness.  Recognize that you can leave it to Jesus at the cross.
 
It's time to Reuse. Relationships are sustainable.  They are not to be used once and discarded.  Allow your heart to be knit to others in life-long friendships.
 

It's time to Recycle.  Our relationships are to have an everlasting quality of love to them.  Love never fails, withers or fades.  It never becomes inefficient or obsolete.  It never comes to an end!

 

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