3Ci is about God.
We want God for God Himself.
This makes us as a church believe in believing right and in doing right.
Our doctrinal belief can best be described as Triune God-besotted, yet Christ-centered in our gospel preaching, because Jesus is man’s only access into the Trinity.
We hold to a reformed-charismatic view and choose to uphold all restored truth, even though it forces us to walk with divine tensions. We want to assume neither the gospel nor the Holy Spirit’s ...
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We are Missional, “more interested in the harvest than the barn”, in that we want to cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith and see people reconciled and restored to God, to themselves, to others and the world, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. (Van Engen)
We are Kingdom focused, believing that the church holds the keys to the Kingdom, which is why we gather men and women into the church with a view to the transformation of the world as a sign of the ...
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Our philosophy of ministry can be described as postmodern conservative, since we want to engage our time with the ancient ever-truth of scripture.
Our personality as a church in Pretoria is, or at least aims to be, loved and loving, lavishly creative, wildly generous, daringly innovative and pioneering, caringly concerned, delighted and urgent, loud and joyful, livers of kingdom life!
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"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom 15:5-6)
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Haman loved position, and hated anyone who did not honor his position. He was so furious with Mordecai the Jew, for not bowing and scraping to him, that he got the king to issue an edict of annihilation against all the Jews in all the provinces of Persia. He even built a high gallows by his home to hang Mordecai there. In the end, God turned it around on Haman, and he was hanged on this very gallows.
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Christian Prediction ought to be, "what IS God doing TOMORROW?". He is the great "I Am". He is building His church. He is the spirit of prophesy. He has the whole world in His hands. He created Time as a means through which He can interact with His creation.
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One of my favorite worship songs coins the phrase: “You are worthy, You are worthy!” Worth is a very subjective concept it seems to me. Worth is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. I did some reading on the subject and this is what the father of economics, Adam Smith came up with in 1776 in the book “The wealth of the Nations”:
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The modern church is not known for suffering. Many believers get very nervous when they experience any form of suffering and hardship. They rebuke the enemy and start to meticulously scrutinise their lives and past behavior. Surely Jesus did it all on the cross, He suffered so that we can live in fullness and prosperity. Every time I switch on the television the preaching is on the topics of headship, fullness, health and wealth. I cannot recall when last someone preached on cost, hardship, ...
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“I can’t get no, satisfaction, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.” The famous song by the Rolling Stones is an outcry from the worldly prophets of the last 4 decades. Somehow they manage to capture the inability of all humanity to gain satisfaction from this world.
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In this blog, I’m keen to hear some of your thoughts on one or any of these random questions… It might inspire more posts from my side.
What would happen to Obama if news broke of a love child?
Why are we so unwilling to address churchiness, truthiness or apathy? Is it because we only value truth if others value it too, which means we’re unconvinced ourselves?
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We had an amazing time with the Foresttown bunch and we shared incredible moments with them this past week. God's doing delightful things in Foresttown Church!
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Is Jesus enough? Enough for you in your life as it is currently? Enough in your church, for your church, before all other visions?Can Jesus really be enough?
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Those long, dusty stretches. Those painful longings that can even make the heart sick. We’ve all felt those pangs of desperation at times as we ‘wait upon the Lord’ for things promised but as yet unfulfilled. It’s hard, it’s long and dry at times but is a part of life that can’t be avoided.
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I have been mulling over in my mind, the topic of serving for a few months now. But it has been a struggle to articulate all I felt about it. How do we do it; how do we serve well? What if we stray towards works of the flesh and drivenness? All these thoughts have run through my mind over the last months, weighing on my heart, especially as from time to time I hear the complaining voices of the ‘saints’ which disturbs my heart. How can we complain when such a great debt of love has been ...
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When we were children growing up on our family farm, we would often have to move hay bales to feed the cattle. Many times we would stumble across a nest of mice in what looked like an ordinary bale of hay. When we saw something move that shouldn’t move or when we kicked the hay, we would see something that should not be there; if something shocked us and moved, we would kick it again! We would have hours of fun destroying these nests of mice before they could ruin our hard-worked-for hay!
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