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WSM @ EGS
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
This fall The Way School of Ministry will be taking place during the teaching time at EGS (which is moving to Thursdays!). All are welcome to EGS (no you don’t have to “register” to come to EGS)! Registration is for those who would like to take the full course, which outside of the teaching time at EGS, includes required reading and access to more resources online. If you register for the course, you will get a book and an email notification with your own user-name and password to login to WSM online. During the week there will be video updates posted from David Gordon as well as articles, handouts, and of course, the notes and audio from EGS sessions. You will also be able to connect with others taking the course in this online community as well as post insights or questions in an online forum/ discussion board.
For those who cannot make it to our EGS service, this provides a way to get equipping wherever you are! Sign up for the WSM online version and you will have access to all the same things mentioned above. Follow along with us at IHOP-AC by listening to the audio and reading the notes from each service and interact with everyone else taking the class. We will even mail you the book!
David Gordon will be teaching “The Burning Ones.” This course will seek to look at the ways we can cultivate hearts that are in love and burning for Jesus. The logo of IHOP-AC is a burning heart. This idea is taken from Luke 24:13-32 with the disciples on the road to Emmaus. The risen Lord is walking with these two men, and begins to explain to them things concerning Himself in all the scriptures. After the encounter and the realization of who He was, in Luke 24:32, they speak about their hearts burning within them while He was speaking to them and explaining the Scriptures. This is what we are after in this course; we invite and encourage you to cultivate burning hearts with us. Encountering God…burning hearts.
Covenant God
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
This past week, I have been learning a lot about covenants and what God thinks of them. I realized that God doesn’t just admire covenants; He is the one who invented them and has bound Himself them out of love.
The definition of a covenant is the following. “…the strongest most solemn agreement that can be made between two parties. It cannot be changed by time, space, government, circumstances, or men. It is unbreakable, and enduring to following generations.”
In the west, we don’t hear the word “covenant” at all. We are familiar with agreements, testaments, legal documents or certificates but never a covenant. We are used to “changing our minds”, “waiting till we’ve fulfilled the requirements” or “seeing if it will work out”. It seems too pre-historic or binding to use a covenant and we have totally lost the meaning. A covenant originated with God when He made the very first covenant with Noah after the flood. No one had ever made a covenant before. Gen. 9:13 “I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between be and the earth.” After that first covenant, a knowledge of covenant then spread to all the generations following.
It is interesting to note that God does not take a covenant lightly. When someone makes a covenant, He sees it as real. In Joshua chapter nine, we see Joshua had fought against Jericho and Ai and had crushed them. The Gibeonites heard it and decided to deceive the men of Israel and dress up as foreign envoys to pursuade them to make a peace covenant. So Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant to let them live. Three days later, Joshua found out that he had been tricked.
Nevertheless, Joshua and the men of Israel had sworn to them and made peace so they did not kill even one of them. Now, a King named Adoni-zedek found out that Israel had made a peace covenant with Gibeon and that Gibeon was a “great city” and “all its men were mighty”. He got afraid, so he called four other kings to go up and attack Gibeon. So they did, and the Gibeonites called Israel for help. (One of the characteristics of a covenant is “my enemies are your enemies and your enemies are mine”.) Israel came and fought against this enemy. The Lord told them that He had given the enemies over to Israel and not one of them would live. Israel had a great victory, and it says that the Lord helped them by throwing “large hailstones from heaven on them….and they died”. Wow, if God stands with someone who made a covenant out of deceit, He must really, really see a covenant as very important!
God wants us to see how serious he is when He says things. He doesn’t have to make a covenant because His very word should be enough for us. However, God wants us to be sure, for we are doubtful most of the time. He gave us many examples of what a covenant is and how He backs them up. He wants us to know Him as a “covenant God”. He is not a far away, apathetic, unfeeling God. He is real, intense, and full of passion and emotion.
Gracey Guetterman
WSM: The Book of Hebrews- underway
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The Way School of Ministry began its 5th course this past week on the book of Hebrews. David Gordon, director of IHOP-AC is teaching the course. We are excited as a school to go deep in the Word together as we peer into this epistle and gaze on the God-Man. In the first week we began to look at “interpretative keys” to understand the book. From the notes: “The key to understanding God’s message in its proper context in the book of Hebrews is to develop an intimate familiarity with the book as a whole….context is king in interpreting the word of God.” We began to look at some of the keys such as:
5 dangers/ warnings- addressed to these believers to endure to the end and not to give up and fall away from the faith. Each warning/exhortation is connected to His Word
“ifs”- the “ifs” we see in Hebrews challenge us to consider the severity of our obedience and endurance as we walk with Jesus Christ in the midst of increasing deception and persecution at the end of the age.
Supremacy & Excellencies of Christ- It really is all about Jesus: His beauty and His glory manifest to His people, He is worthy. Jesus in His person and work are the key themes of the book of Hebrews.
Lifestyles before the Lord- The cross, the word and the throne are three essential and continual themes throughout the book of Hebrews.
- Lifestyles of consecration through the cross of Jesus Christ
- Lifestyles of revelation through the word of Jesus Christ
- Lifestyles of intercession through the throne of Jesus Christ
We are so expectant to see God establish us deeper in His Word over these next few weeks. Keep checking back for more insights from the class.
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