“Spiritual Transformation Journey” Retreat
Posted on April 30th, 2009
On April 24-25, members of our Spiritual Transformation Journey Initiating Leadership Team (pictured above) attended our first cluster retreat at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Led by congregational coach Bill Moore, we joined the leadership teams from West End Baptist in Suffolk and Patterson Ave. Baptist in Richmond to learn more about what this “Spiritual Transformation Journey” is all about.
Here’s what we learned:
- This is a spiritual journey to rekindle our first love for God.
- We lose our passion for God when we become distracted by the “noise” and the busyness of our everyday lives.
- The way to rekindle our love for God is to concentrate less on doing things for God and to focus more on being with God, communing with Jesus and abiding in God’s Spirit.
- We commune with God through prayer, Bible reading, silence and meditation as individuals and as a community.
- When we center ourselves in God and in Christ, we have a better chance to hear and discern what God wants us to be and to do.
- When the whole church embarks on this journey, our church’s spiritual life will be transformed and we will gain a clearer vision of what God wants us to be and to do as a church.
- God is already at work in leading Farmville Baptist into His preferred future. We just have to be still, and listen, and then follow!
On the journey – Michael
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