Weekend Update

Well we finished another great weekend at JCFC.

Lots of work, set up tear down, changes, a couple good videos about moms, some tears, and some laughter. We continued in our 10 commandments series, which has been fun.

I totally ran out of time looking at Mark 11 where Jesus cursed the fig tree, and drove out the money changers from the temple. It is a great story. Actually it was like a living parable that Jesus was teaching the disciples over a 3 day event.

The story sounds harsh, when we see Jesus cursing a tree and it dying, then overturning tables ad running out the merchants. The teaching really lies in the fact that prayer is the essential root issue in both stories, or the lack of it anyway.

The fig tree with leaves and no fruit represents believers who appear to be believers but have no evidence of the fruit in their life. As the temple looks like a temple, but has no prayer in it. If you have prayerless believers you will have a prayerless church.

I challenged everyone yesterday to begin to pray for our city, to join up with the other prayer partners we have and lets go wide and deep together.