Market Church – 13th Feb 2010

February 9, 2010 by mark   Filed under Market Church

Market CHURCH

Hello Marketeers

You are Naturally Supernatural…

Today I was walking across south acton and I said hello to a guy who was, well, lurking on a corner.
As I said hello he smiled a toothless grin and took his roll-up down from his lips, ‘Alright mate’, ‘what you up to?’…
‘I’m just visiting someone who lives on the estate’ I said innocently. ‘Ah!’ he says, ‘Same reason I am then!’. At this point what
little street savi I have kicked into gear and I realised he looked like a drug user, and it seemed he thought I did too! So I reply…
‘Urm, I’m not sure mate, I’m a pastor in a church off to meet someone who I know’. The man stopped, shock showed across that broken face,
‘Oh, urm, I’m sorry mate, bless you, obviously not then, sorry to bother you…’. As a continued walking I assured him he’d no need to apologise
and that it was nice to meet him. I said that I hoped he would take care. I then went off to peddle the highs of grace and hope in a flat on the estate as best I could.

So what’s my point here?

On the market, and in the rest of our daily lives we have the opportunity to surprise people with our choice to follow Jesus, whatever we might look like.
We may be mistaken as someone who doesn’t but as we naturally feed on the grace we are given we can deal it to others (2 Cor. 1:3-4).
In this way we can be naturally supernatural. Not visible from a mile off by our holy glow. Often underestimated. Often scared. But learning that God has made us naturally supernatural.
We want HOTs and the Market stall to be places we are all naturally supernatural.

Three practical places you can sign-up and go to over the next months are these events. I recommend them to learn more:

  • Naturally Supernatural, Soul Survivor Watford. link.
  • Next Generation prayer event. (Pete Greig – 24-7 founder is speaking) link.
  • Catch the Fire London Conference (Heidi Baker) link.

Got time to give this Saturday?
Market stall shifts: AM(10-12): one space. PM (12-2): one space
HOTS shifts: (10-11) two spaces, (11-12), two spaces

God bless you.

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Mark Bishop
Out there, Oaktree Church.
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