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Day Three - Morning - Full Session

Watch the video of our entire third session with guest speaker David Wraight.

Aaron Hughes31 May 2016Comment
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This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ LIVING WATER Culture... by @jwkaiser ⠀⠀ Humor me for a moment. One day, I was out surfing and between sets I jumped off my board and went for a swim. While under the water exploring I came upon a fish. ⠀⠀ As it turns out, he was one of those friendly talking fish. We both smiled and waved (as fish normally do) and I offered a nice sentiment, “The water sure is nice today.” He responded, “What is water?” ⠀⠀ What was foreign to me, being under the water, was culturally normal for the friendly fish. So much so that he was completely unaware of it. Although this is just a silly story to make a point, we all can relate to entering into an unfamiliar culture, like on a surf trip, and noticing that everyone else is used to things like roosters waking you up at 4am or monkeys stealing your stuff. ⠀⠀ As followers of Christ we must remember that our “Christian culture” is so unfamiliar to many around us. I’m sure they could point out things (like I did to the fish) and we wouldn’t notice them because it’s our culture. Likewise, the opposite is true. Those who don’t follow Jesus aren’t aware that their cultural “norm” is missing anything like a relationship with Jesus Christ. ⠀⠀ It took a movement of God to help the man who would later become the Apostle Paul to see a new reality. I’d offer the suggestion that the same was true for you and me. ⠀⠀ Like my fish friend, it is easy to miss the reality of the cultures we live in. Therefore, I have to ask a hard question. Is culture shaping the reality of your faith or is your faith shaping the reality of your culture? ⠀⠀ photo: @nicksammons
Join us this week in praying for @christiansurferssweden: "CS Sweden keeps striving towards finding our role in our nation, where we can serve as best as possible for our surf community. We are moving slowly but steady. Our prayers are to spread joy and salvation in the small lineup here and to make strong connections and relationships with the surfers, while also recruiting some awesome people who share that vision and engagement. Thank you Lord for all that you’ve done and are continuously doing for us, keep blessing our sisters and brothers around the globe!"
This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ Closer by @jwkaiser We had driven for an hour down some bumpy dusty Mexican roads, dodging pigs and chickens, and seeing the most friendly smiling faces on kids you've ever seen. Finally, when our backs couldn't take the bumps on the road anymore, we got to where we were told we would find a world-class left point break. Standing on the beach, trying not to sweat at 7 in the morning, we strained our eyes toward the horizon to see what we thought was ridable waist high waves about a mile out to sea at the end of the rocky point. We were smashed! All the excitement we had had to find epic waves now gave way to the effort to simply cool off. We jumped in and paddled a distance that felt like it should have taken us to Hawaii, still holding out hope that we would find a fun wave to enjoy for a bit. By the time we finally got close to the lineup, we were overcome with a stoke of unprecedented levels as we discovered that what we had thought were waist high waves, were actually overhead bombs with nobody out and not a touch of wind to mess up the perfect lefts peeling for...well, longer than our skinny legs could keep up with. The lesson here for surfers is to not stand on the beach, but draw closer and discover that it might just be better than you could have ever imagined. However, the opposite lesson can be discovered in following Jesus and being in fellowship with others that do. If perfection is your standard, stay far away from relationships, opportunities in ministry and communities of faith, because everything can look better from far away. But if you can appreciate and find beauty in things that are broken and messy at best, then dare to get close. The flaws in what you will see and experience will remind you of...well it will remind you of yourself. Our God must love a mess because He is intimately close asking for us to "come" closer still. So don't stay on the beach. Paddle out. Don't stay on the sidelines of faith and community. Follow Jesus and His call to "come" to Him. "All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away." - Jesus in John 6:37
Our Global Leadership Forum is currently happening in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, with leaders representing many nations, services and roles within our organization here to seek the Lord as we strategize on the coming years of our mission. It’s happened to coincide with the biggest and most consistent swell of the year for J-Bay which doesn’t hurt either! 🤙🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽 #everysurfer
This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ Saying Yes by @natedorman “Day after day, in the Temple and from house to house, they never stopped preaching and teaching that Jesus is the Messiah.” Acts 5:42 As surfers, it’s easy to go on & on about waves, boards, barrels, etc. Because it’s so ingrained in the way we live our life, it’s easy to relate everything we do back to surfing. As I reflect on the past several years of my life, God has taken this passion for surfing to show me His heart & His love more than I ever imagined possible. When I began surfing professionally, competing on the QS, I did not know a detailed 5yr plan of how life would go. What I did know, however, was my confidence in Jesus’ love for me & that no matter what I was doing or where I was going, I was going to love God & look for ways to join Him in loving other people. From this posture of loving Jesus with my whole heart, no matter what He brought my way, I kept saying yes to opportunities that God dropped in my lap. God has continually opened the doors to where I am now; from studying the Bible in grad school, to accepting offers to teach, preach, & share the gospel, to surfing and competing around the world, & even pastoring H2O Church in Huntington Beach. 5yrs ago, I never would have imagined pastoring, surfing, traveling, or any of the other opportunities God has opened the door for. The one constant that has led to each of these opportunities has been letting Jesus shape my heart and my plans. It is from this daily surrender that I have gotten to join God at work. Just like the disciples in Acts, I want to continue bringing the good news of Jesus day after day, & everywhere that I step foot! Whether in the ‘temple’, ‘house to house’, or lineup, classroom, office, beach, I want to faithfully love & follow Jesus. I cannot wait to see what the years to come have in store as I continue saying yes to God, surrendering to Him & following His ways in all that I do. Are you living your daily life for the purpose of bringing the good news of Jesus everywhere you go? What do you need to surrender to God to join Him at work in your life & in the lives of those around you?
Awesome to see CS Mexico holding their first ever National Gathering at Puerto Escondido this week! #everysurfer
Join us this week in praying for @cs_aus: "Christian Surfers Australia is committed to growth this year. Our National Team has been thinking through how we can strategically share the gospel to the whole Australian surfing community and looking for pathways into those new areas. We are hoping to see five new missions across Australia develop and to see our CSALT Internship program grow in size too. Pray for wisdom for our leadership team, for good fruit to come from our New Swell (junior leader training) and CSALT (internship) programs and for increased passion for our leaders."
This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ Misfits by JW Kaiser What a bunch of misfits we surfers are. Barefeet. Water dripping from our noses. Strange tans. An obsession that nobody understands. Misfits indeed. We are mostly identified by our dedication and the lengths we will go to further our surfing experiences. How about the followers of Jesus after the resurrection? Clearly, they could be called misfits too. Untrained, passionate, outcast. Once called disciples of Jesus, they were later called Apostles (meaning a pioneering advocate.) Here is a list of how each Apostle gave their life for the sake of the Gospel: Peter & Paul - Both martyred in Rome. Paul was beheaded. Peter was crucified, upside down at his request, since he did not feel he was worthy to die in the same manner as his Lord. Andrew - Went to what is now the Soviet Union, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, and in Greece, where he was crucified. Thomas - Tradition has him preaching as far east as India. Died when pierced through with the spears of four soldiers. Philip - Powerful ministry in North Africa and Asia Minor, where he converted the wife of a Roman proconsul. In retaliation the proconsul had Philip arrested and cruelly put to death. Matthew - Ministered in Persia and Ethiopia. He was stabbed to death in Ethiopia. Bartholomew - Travels to India, Armenia, Ethiopia, and Southern Arabia. There are various accounts of how he met his death as a martyr for the gospel. James - Ministered in Syria. It was reported that he was stoned and then clubbed to death. Simon the Zealot - Ministered in Persia and was killed after refusing to sacrifice to the sun god. Matthais - Replaced Judas. Went to Syria with Andrew and put to death by burning. John - Is the only one to have died a natural death. Leader of the church in Ephesus and is said to have taken care of Mary the mother of Jesus in his home. An early tradition has him escaping unhurt after being cast into boiling oil at Rome. Are you ready to be a different kind of misfit than just a surfer? One with the dedication of the Apostles? Surfing is not worth giving your life for; but clearly Jesus was for this group who spent 3yrs w/ him.
THE SHAPING BAY . inspired by God, transcribed by John Mandybur, Kiama Christian Surfers c. 1986 . "I went to church the other day, To pray and give my thanks; 'Cause church is like a shaping bay, And we are merely blanks. There's lots of souls with dings out there, And glass jobs thin as paper, But leave it all unto the Lord, For he's the Master Shaper" . #tbt #everysurfer
 

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