JOURNEY
EGYPT
WILDERNESS
CANAAN
Whoever joins God’s liberation movement must be content to spend time in the wilderness, to live in tents and not to know what the morrow brings.  We seek God’s will so that we can let our lives unfold according to his design.  We look “forward to a city founded, designed and built by God” (Heb 11:10)
If you are tempted to settle down, to call the journey off, nail these words over the door of your house, “If they have been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.  But as it is, they desire a better country” (Heb 11:15) – Elizabeth O’Connor
 


The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around
pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve 
this entire assembly to death." Exodus 16:3

The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” Numbers 11:4-6
Moving out of (or away from) something
stuck in a Sunday church mentality
only 1/3 attends
20/80 .... leads to burnout 
Ora et Labora and other outside Sunday activities
not becoming multicultural
TIME OF DISCERNMENT
3 CALLINGS:
Jesus in our South African context
Church as a verb
Becoming multicultural
Discernment
Individually : do I feel that God is calling me to this?
Corporately: how are we going to "change our tactics" 
                        to fulfill our calling?
As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the LORD will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.” 
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.  Exodus 14

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. And all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become booty; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt.”
 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are of great size. 33 There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim); and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”  Numbers 13
I am feeling ....
afraid
excited
loss
hurt
angry
confused
exposed
....
I am involving God in this discernment process ...
Prayer
Study
Meditation
Soulwork
Submitting
Lamentation
Experimenting
Fasting
Learning
Initiating
1 Sept 2009
9-11 April
March
Lent
Meeting people
Apartheid Museum
Cosmo City
Camp
Oasis
Change of rhythm