OBJECTIVES OF MY LIFE (LIST OF PRIORTIES)
To allow God to correctly adjust the lenses with which I view Him and the cross of Jesus Christ, i.e. to “right size” God, and the mystery of the Cross! (Isaiah 40), then the following will follow easily:
Growing intimately with God in prayer, devotion, meditation, scripture memory, Gods’ word, teaching, sharing, worship, and e.t.c. Going beyond culture and routine (i.e. proximity) and heading to intimacy with God. Allowing different and fresh ways to know God more.
Growing in intimacy with guys I’m influencing…with an approach to address their growth in intimacy with God…Being in their lives more, and being intentional in being influential.
Giving more…Giving time, resources, love, care, help…always. Especially when it inconveniences me. Being more, if not entirely all, a giver in all relationships without expecting anything back. Family being a critical area.
Perform exceptionally well in my studies.
Take part-time theology classes at a seminary.
Write more and more, and Journal more.
Be a good steward of money.
Use my talents and abilities in serving in the christians@wits mission, and hopefully the UJ mission.
To run the Wits Internal Football League perfectly, the way God would want me to.
Serve at church: Cell and Sunday school.
Serve at COJ: Whatever asked to do…
Priority Activities: School (Everyday), CNS Job(Everyday), d/D-group (Weekly), COJ meetings (2) (Weekly), christians@wits (Weekly), Sunday school (Monthly), Cell (Weekly), church (Weekly), and WIFL(Weekly).
Mahlo.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Friday, November 16, 2007
Mahlo’s Life Direction: Calling
I’m really not sure what exactly God is calling me into, but I really have stuff I’m very passionate about, & God has provided opportunities. I have listed them below & also the intermediate goals for the next 13 months:
(1) Starting a movement of impacting people in the mining industry...by way of discipleship...reproduction of Christ's disciples...connecting them to the churches and/or planting churches that target the mining community.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & giving my life to a few guys & help them to give their lives to a few guys, & so on. I need to graduate and stay in the mining industry long enough for the movement to run on its own.
2 Timothy 2: 1You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. 3Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
(2) Interdenominational Worship, Establishment, Equipping, and Sending-out of young people into the mission field. More like Louie Giglio's (from passion) job. Basically, organizing events like one-day and movements like 268generation, preaching & writing to varsity students.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & start taking theology classes, and taking preaching and writing opportunities for training and development purposes.
Joshua 1:7-9: 7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
(3) Starting the business wing for Gods Kingdom i.e. Businesses who’s main purpose would be to finance the work of Gods Kingdom. Including, financing events, missionary salaries, social upliftment of the poor, etc.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & start taking bussiness classes, and researching about available business opportunities plus raising Capital and drawing-up bussiness proposals.
Nehemiah 3
Subject to change as God leads!
(1) Starting a movement of impacting people in the mining industry...by way of discipleship...reproduction of Christ's disciples...connecting them to the churches and/or planting churches that target the mining community.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & giving my life to a few guys & help them to give their lives to a few guys, & so on. I need to graduate and stay in the mining industry long enough for the movement to run on its own.
2 Timothy 2: 1You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. 3Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
(2) Interdenominational Worship, Establishment, Equipping, and Sending-out of young people into the mission field. More like Louie Giglio's (from passion) job. Basically, organizing events like one-day and movements like 268generation, preaching & writing to varsity students.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & start taking theology classes, and taking preaching and writing opportunities for training and development purposes.
Joshua 1:7-9: 7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
(3) Starting the business wing for Gods Kingdom i.e. Businesses who’s main purpose would be to finance the work of Gods Kingdom. Including, financing events, missionary salaries, social upliftment of the poor, etc.
Goal: I need to continue knowing and seeking God first & start taking bussiness classes, and researching about available business opportunities plus raising Capital and drawing-up bussiness proposals.
Nehemiah 3
Subject to change as God leads!
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The best book I've read so far...The Cost of Discipleship
Bonhoeffer's most famous work is The Cost of Discipleship, first published in 1939. This book is a rigorous exposition and interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, and Matthew 9:35-10:42. Bonhoeffer's major concern is cheap grace. This is grace that has become so watered down that it no longer resembles the grace of the New Testament, the costly grace of the Gospels.
By the phrase cheap grace, Bonhoeffer means the grace which has brought chaos and destruction; it is the intellectual assent to a doctrine without a real transformation in the sinner's life. It is the justification of the sinner without the works that should accompany the new birth. Bonhoeffer says of cheap grace:
[It] is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.{1}
Real grace, in Bonhoeffer's estimation, is a grace that will cost a man his life. It is the grace made dear by the life of Christ that was sacrificed to purchase man's redemption. Cheap grace arose out of man's desire to be saved, but to do so without becoming a disciple. The doctrinal system of the church with its lists of behavioral codes becomes a substitute for the Living Christ, and this cheapens the meaning of discipleship. The true believer must resist cheap grace and enter the life of active discipleship. Faith can no longer mean sitting still and waiting; the Christian must rise and follow Christ.{2}
It is here that Bonhoeffer makes one of his most enduring claims on the life of the true Christian. He writes that "only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."{3} Men have become soft and complacent in cheap grace and are thus cut off from the discovery of the more costly grace of self-sacrifice and personal debasement. Bonhoeffer believed that the teaching of cheap grace was the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.{4}
Discipleship, for Bonhoeffer, means strict adherence to Christ and His commandments. It is also a strict adherence to Christ as the object of our faith. Bonhoeffer discusses this single-minded obedience in chapter three of The Cost of Discipleship. In this chapter, the call of Levi and Peter are used to illustrate the believer's proper response to the call of Christ and the Gospel.{5} The only requirement these men understood was that in each case the call was to rely on Christ's word, and cling to it as offering greater security than all the securities in the world.{6}
In the nineteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel we have the story of the rich young man who is inquiring about salvation and is told by Christ that he must sell all of his possessions, take up his cross, and follow. Bonhoeffer emphasizes the bewilderment of the disciples who ask the question, "Who then can be saved?"{7} The answer they are given is that it is extremely hard to be saved, but with God all things are possible.
By the phrase cheap grace, Bonhoeffer means the grace which has brought chaos and destruction; it is the intellectual assent to a doctrine without a real transformation in the sinner's life. It is the justification of the sinner without the works that should accompany the new birth. Bonhoeffer says of cheap grace:
[It] is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.{1}
Real grace, in Bonhoeffer's estimation, is a grace that will cost a man his life. It is the grace made dear by the life of Christ that was sacrificed to purchase man's redemption. Cheap grace arose out of man's desire to be saved, but to do so without becoming a disciple. The doctrinal system of the church with its lists of behavioral codes becomes a substitute for the Living Christ, and this cheapens the meaning of discipleship. The true believer must resist cheap grace and enter the life of active discipleship. Faith can no longer mean sitting still and waiting; the Christian must rise and follow Christ.{2}
It is here that Bonhoeffer makes one of his most enduring claims on the life of the true Christian. He writes that "only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."{3} Men have become soft and complacent in cheap grace and are thus cut off from the discovery of the more costly grace of self-sacrifice and personal debasement. Bonhoeffer believed that the teaching of cheap grace was the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.{4}
Discipleship, for Bonhoeffer, means strict adherence to Christ and His commandments. It is also a strict adherence to Christ as the object of our faith. Bonhoeffer discusses this single-minded obedience in chapter three of The Cost of Discipleship. In this chapter, the call of Levi and Peter are used to illustrate the believer's proper response to the call of Christ and the Gospel.{5} The only requirement these men understood was that in each case the call was to rely on Christ's word, and cling to it as offering greater security than all the securities in the world.{6}
In the nineteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel we have the story of the rich young man who is inquiring about salvation and is told by Christ that he must sell all of his possessions, take up his cross, and follow. Bonhoeffer emphasizes the bewilderment of the disciples who ask the question, "Who then can be saved?"{7} The answer they are given is that it is extremely hard to be saved, but with God all things are possible.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Stuff I'm praying for:
I'm praying the following in my life:
1. Guys I'm influecing for Christ, both Christians and Non-christians.
2. Finance and acceptance for my first year Distance Learning in B.Th (Bachelor of Theology).
3. Faithfulness in my studiess and ministry.
4. WIts Mission - Where to from now.
5. My parents' salvation.
6. Relationships - that I may be able to love everyone "in spite off..."& invest in Godly relationships.
1. Guys I'm influecing for Christ, both Christians and Non-christians.
2. Finance and acceptance for my first year Distance Learning in B.Th (Bachelor of Theology).
3. Faithfulness in my studiess and ministry.
4. WIts Mission - Where to from now.
5. My parents' salvation.
6. Relationships - that I may be able to love everyone "in spite off..."& invest in Godly relationships.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
OBJECTIVES OF MY LIFE (LIST OF PRIORTIES)
GLORIFY GOD WITH MY LIFE, i.e. to actively seek and act towards knowing God, and making Him known, by:
1.1. Scheduling my days (time), and praying for his guidance and strength to help me be faithful with my time. Including planning my time based on my priorities.
1.2. Spending time with God everyday, and keeping his words in my heart and mind.
1.3. Being faithful in my studies by attending all my lectures, submitting all my projects and assignments on time; and by having a study timetable I stick to.
1.4. Giving my life to two or three guys as way of discipleship!
1.5. Actively seeking and planning ways and opportunities of sharing the Gospel.
1.6. Actively creating and scheduling opportunities for developing Godly deeper relationships with the intention of inspiring, encouraging, giving, guiding, comforting, serving, LOVING and being a blessing to people. This mainly includes going to a higher level of relationship with guys in the D-group, and ACOUNTABILITY.
1.7. LOVING AND SERVING.
1.8. Using my gift, resources and talents for God.
1.9. Budgeting my money well, being faithful in tithing, and using my money wisely.
1.10. FIGHTING FOR PURITY AND REFUSING TO GIVE IN TO LIES!
1.11. Seeking for satisfaction, approval, joy and meaning in God only.
Luke 9: 23 Then he said to all of them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must say no to himself. He must pick up his cross every day and follow me. 24 If he wants to save his life, he will lose it. But if he loses his life for me, he will save it. 25 What good is it if someone gains the whole world but loses or gives up his very self?
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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