Spiritual Renewal Transitions

Welcome to Spiritual Renewal Transitions, a blog created to provide continuity and fellowship to the Market Place ministry,Transitions, and it's associated bible study group which has now undertaken THE BIBLE IN 90 DAYS reading commitment with Lookout Mountain Community Church. Since many of Transitions participants have "transitioned" into jobs and left the group, it is deemed important to solicit new participants due to the highly valuable service it provides for those in job or career transition. Likewise, those people involved in the Bible study group are now in jobs which doesn't allow participation and therefore this blog is intended to keep them connected in some way,if only for fellowhip. Since bible study now is following LMCC's track for the next 90 days, involving sermons and their website will enrich all. To summarize, Spiritual Renewal Transitions will take the "minutes" of what's going on in these three areas and briefly report them here.

To begin, we'll look at the participant's guide for the 90 day program and summarize the video and discussion. Associated sermons at Lookout will greatly enrich this process and we'll reference what's going on in Transitions as well. Join the effort and submit your comments or questions and we'll do our best to keep this simple, powerful and useful to all. May God bless you all!

FIRST WEEK
From the video we learn in Genesis, the big picture is God's plan to create a dwelling place for himself which amounts to building relationships with the people who will be in it. Bad choices (Adam) drives people out of God's presence and this represents man's greatest loss, God's presence. Thus began our exile and God is now going through a large scale plan to come again and be in relationship with us. We now follow two tracks 1. the track of sin (character of man) and 2. Track of blessing (God's character). Here it may be helpful to consider the correct principles that God is trying to establish with fallen man and the character man must overcome in order for the relationship between God and man to happen successfully. It is going to be a long journey. God's blessing is to make himself known to the world and this is through the covenant, the first of which is with Abraham. Now we see the obstacles to the covenant such as Sarah being barren, land ownership and flawed character of the people. Now, the Exodus begins and Abraham encounters the burning bush, plague, the Red Sea, eventually receiving the ten commandments from God. Here God's character reveals the law but also the promise: "I'm Holy and you are to be Holy".

Now, we listen to a sermon on HOLY IMPOSITION! This is a great sermon on God looking like the Star trek borg's coming in to subsume man to their/His service. But no so; fallen man lives with his idols but God says in the scripture "I Will" and "You will" in order to change the character of man and provide a suitable dwelling place for the Lord. The blessing comes with God's son Jesus, who by grace redeems man requiring only that they believe in HIm.

Back at the ranch however, with Abraham and Moses, the journey is going to get rough as God informs Moses how to build his Tabernacle and form the character necessary to reach the promised land of the Old Testament.

Now, Transitions, meeting be-monthly, is in the process of doing a self-assessment tool which does exactly what we're seeking spiritually: assess character so that we 1)Know ourselves, 2)know God and 3)Know the market in developing a career campaign.

Our spiritual renewal is based on study and meditation and value clarification and commitment. Spiritual renewal in Christ helps develop the character and principle-centered person in his everyday life both within and without.

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