This Week's Spiritual To Do List

Yesterday I went to church. That's routine for Sundays. But this Sunday was decidedly different. I brought an empty list. Deciding to literally do everything I was asked to do in a sermon, I came ready for rules, actions, willful inaction, and other possibilities.

For the first time, I visited City Bible Church. Specifically I visited their Mill Plain campus in Vancouver. I have known the church from conferences I attended as a teen and from my experience the church is pretty clear on application. The other thing I knew was that this is a VERY charismatic church. So, I anticipated a lot of spiritual stuff. 

Before the sermon I was asked to do one thing repeatedly. Now, I am only making a point to do those things in a sermon lest I do everything announced and find myself unemployed and exhausted. But if, the pastor cares to preach to the announcements, say inviting me to join a small group, I shall involve myself as he tells me to. After being told, "Put your hands together," a few times, I decided to count how many times I take this action. Four more from the time I started counting. While that isn't what I wanted to do, I thought it was interesting and fun. 

The sermon was on prayer language. So, I obviously was not disappointed in the level of charismata present. However, I had forgotten that Pastor Frank Dimazio, whom I have seen speak on a handful of occasions, is the king of teaching points. I tried taking notes, but was constantly falling behind due to the sheer volume of information. Nonetheless, the sermon was good and interesting. I decided before hand that I would make a "To Do List" of application points from the sermon. So, here they are. 

1. Read:

Acts 2:4; 4:8; 4:31; 9:17; 13:9, 13:52, and 9:6

Ephesians 3:19 and one additional verse that I could not write fast enough to keep. I guess I fail on one verse this week. 

2. I need to mark I Corinthians 14:5 in my Bible

3. Use my Spiritual Language to build myself up - which was implied as a regular task, so I shall do this every day this week. 

4. I need to pray for, believe for, and receive the Holy Spirit - this had no particular amount of times, or date set on it. So, for the sake of not bogging myself down every day for the entire year I will choose the frequency of this point. Which, shall be daily for the week. 

My next blog will be me simply unpacking and doing these things. 

Thanks for reading!