Week Eleven & Twelve -- Spiritual Authority // Home at Last!!!

Dave Gustaveson, our last speaker, spoke on the topic of Spiritual Authority.

Something Dave said that really struck me was, "Most issues are simply due to a lack of love." I thought about issues I see today in society, and I think about all the broken families, and I find this to be true. In my Discipleship Training School last year, Dean Sherman said, "Any political system would work if it was loving." This call to love, which Christ gave us in Mark 12, seems so simple, yet we struggle with it more than anything else, as shown by the church's reputation for being "judgmental." We can love without compromising conviction.

I was so impressed with all our speakers during Phase Two. They each had their own style of teaching, highly anointed for what they do, and they were so open and ready to share with us hard lessons they've had to learn on their own.

After our last week of lectures, we had one more week together as a school. We shared our Vision Project (a project we did at the beginning of the school, cultivating a vision God has put in our hearts and examining what needs to take place to bring it to pass), our Outreach Project (the two-month, overseas mock outreach we had to plan), and we just spent time together as a school, doing things like watching Home Alone together. :) Something that I love about YWAM Denver is their heart for community. They are all about building relationships, and they are intentional about creating an atmosphere that encourages exactly that.

So, I'm back in sunny San Diego! I flew in late on Friday, December 20th and jumped right back into the swing of things as we did worship that weekend at North Coast Calvary Chapel. We had a blast, and I've been able to catch up with some friends I hadn't seen in a while. :) It was so sweet to be home for Christmas, since last year I was on outreach in Costa Rica. Being home, back with my family, going to my home church, and soaking up all the great teaching, has been nothing short of wonderful. I am so blessed by the people in my life, and it's been an enriching couple of weeks.

I would like to ask for your prayers, as I prepare to join staff at YWAM Denver beginning in February. It's a year-long commitment, and I will need monthly supporters, in prayer and finances! I'm so confident that this is what God has for me right now, and I know that His bank account is unlimited. :) Please consider partnering with me as I go to serve, learn, teach, and send people out into the world to tell about the GREAT NEWS of Jesus Christ!