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Inspir ation
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Paul was inspired by the gospel (“Woe to
me if I do not preach the gospel”) and we We do not trust in the
need to be as well. This is what gets us
out of bed in the morning and should be at gospel because it works
the centre of our lives. Jesus has saved us
and is changing us – this is our inspiration (which by the way it does)
personally and corporately for what we are but because it is true.
doing in High Kirk. Our vision is to take the
love and grace of Jesus to people who do
not yet know Him. This is not easy as ”
we move into a society today which is
becoming more hostile to orthodox
Christian belief. But just as Paul and the Inv es tment
apostles persevered with their vision and
saw whole cultural change so we trust in Paul beat his body and made sacrifices to
God as well to change people today. We facilitate the vision. We now enter a time of
do not trust in the gospel because it works sacrificial giving to help the vision become
(which by the way it does) but because it a reality. Therefore the more of us who
is true. work together to this end the better. We
invest and then we release. We invest, we
sacrifice, we discipline ourselves and then
Inno v ation we say to God “do with this what you will”.
Let’s run in such a way as to get the prize,
O ur Visi on He was prepared to be all things to all different from the 1st century – we are still
let’s spend ourselves because He is worth
We also saw that Paul was an innovator.
it. You see the 21st century is really no
people to save some. This did not mean
at war against satan and all his devices
that he sacrificed his gospel principles but
as he continues to take many people
it did mean that he sought to reach
captive. Let’s invest in prayer as we work in
different cultures and sought to relate to
co-operation with the Holy Spirit to change
different kinds of people in different ways
with his human resources. As we reshape
for ministry and mission to this generation
our buildings - one of our greatest lives; let’s invest in reshaping the building
and let’s invest in offering our time, our
resources - we do it to reach different talents and our tithe to reach a new
people through varied ministries. High Kirk generation of people for Christ.
is an innovative church – we have different
ministries that have begun over the past In His Service,
decade which are reaching new people: Norman
Café Church, English Classes; Embrace;
BOBs Store etc. There will be more
ministries as people are open to the
leading of the Lord but all of them are
driven by the vision to take Jesus to
people. Innovative mission is driving
what we are doing as we turn outwards
to our community. We want people locally
to see that this is every bit as much their
building as it is ours.