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Day Five - Morning - Full Session

Watch the video of our entire fifth session with guest speaker David Wraight...and find out where our next conference will be!

Aaron HughesJune 6, 2016Comment
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Join us this week in praying for @cspanama. Panama is a beautiful country located in Central America, known as the heart of the world. CS Panama enjoy the privilege of having many good waves to surf and are blessed to be surrounded by two oceans: the Pacific and the Atlantic, which gives them an advantage to reach many surfers for Christ! Pray for revival in their surfing community, for their leaders to be strong and committed and for increased finance for the ministry. 📷 @surfeapanama #christiansurfers #ourfamilyonmission
Rad to see our founder @brettdavis59 with the #christiansurfersjapan crew! #christiansurfers #ourfamilyonmission
This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ LIVING WATER Difficult by JW Kaiser Surfing is difficult on many levels. I’m not talking about standing up on a foam board on a wave someone pushed you into. I’m talking about the kind of surfing that causes us to abandon reason and devote most of our thoughts, time and money to riding waves. That kind of surfing is hard. For the sake of less crowded lineups, let’s agree that it’s a good thing most people think surfing is difficult and choose not to do it. Similarly, writer GK Chesterton has a thought about why more people do not choose to follow Christ. He writes, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and not tried”. In other words, most people approach faith in Christ like someone standing on the beach watching surfers. They think, “that looks fun but too difficult for me”, so they just stay on the beach. Many may dip a toe in the water of true devotion to Jesus and decide, “It is just too difficult. I’ll go back to living life on my own terms.” Once, Jesus asked his friend Peter to try to catch some fish after he had just come in having caught nothing (Luke 5:1-11). I’m sure it was difficult for Peter to see this as a reasonable request. He not only caught some fish but “so many fish that their boats began to sink.” Experiencing this miracle, Peter and the others decided to “leave everything and follow him” and this decision was difficult. Even if you aren’t killed for your faith (like Peter), the difficulties of living life counter to your own desires, culture and at times even reasonable logic, in submission to a God would make many give up the effort. So surfing is hard. Did you quit and decide to take up another hobby that would take less commitment? Or did you just keep paddling out because of a love for the ocean and riding waves? Following Jesus will require you to trust in HIS love for YOU. It will require you to “push into deep waters…” so that you can experience his blessings. Ultimately, following Jesus will require you to give up much more than your love of surfing ever will. Jesus wants all of you. 📷: Parker Amstutz
Tomorrow @christiansurfers_us host their first ever national Paddle With a Purpose, with local groups paddling a mile at their local beach to raise money, a portion of which will go towards @groundswellaid projects. If you’re in the country you can find a local group and join in, otherwise you can support them online. Full info via link in bio 🙌🏽💪🏽🤙🏽 📷 @joshuascott_photography
This time 10 years ago we held our International Gathering in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa. Who knew that 8 years later our international office would relocate there?!? Many familiar faces in this shot! Anyone have any memories to share? #TBT #christiansurfers #ourfamilyonmission
Join us this week in praying for @cs_elsalvador, who have recently formed a new board. Pray for guidance and wisdom from God as they start fresh and conduct ministry. Pray for new leaders with a heart for the Kingdom and love for surfers. Pray also for the chapters in El Tunco and El Zonte to reopen and for the Lord to bless and strengthen the existing chapters in Majahual and Barra de Santiago.
This week’s Living Water from @christiansurfers_us ・・・ LIVING WATER Scarred part II by JW Kaiser Once while surfing, I became increasingly baffled by the dangerous actions of one of the other surfers in the water. He was all over the place. Late drops on top of others paddling out, kicking his board out at the last second as he bailed on yet another wave. To call him a kook would be generous. He was a nuisance. I may or may not have yelled at him to get out of the water. Yes, I'm ocassionally that guy; the surf police! Then I did something out of character with my frustration. I paddled over and said hi. I found out his name and a little bit of his story. He told me he had only tried surfing one other time and didn't know what he was doing. "No kidding!" I thought to myself. I offered to walk down the beach with him and give him a free lesson of sorts. His response was humbling, "You'd do that for me? You're the best!" Well, I'm hardly the best. It it turned into a really great time with a new friend. Last week we looked at an account where Jesus healed a man with leprosy. (Luke 5:12-16). The man who was covered in scars and open wounds, begged to Jesus, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Many of us are like my surfing friend, who thinks we aren't worthy of help because we're a mess. The man in this story, humbled by the scars and pain of leprosy, doubted that Jesus was willing to help him. Most of us don't have a problem believing Jesus CAN heal and forgive us, but we have huge doubts and disbelief that Jesus is WILLING to engage us in our sin and "unworthiness". The out of control surfer I helped would have been wise to be surprised by my offer to help. After all, I yelled at him... loudly. However, Jesus as proved himself again and again biblically, historically and personally to be faithful to come to us when we are making a mess of things. Our scars don't keep Jesus away. They are a sign of our need and a beacon for his grace upon us. He became scarred on the cross to save us from ours. Come to Him who is mighty to save! 📷 : @elmundoderabbit
Join us in praying this week for @christiansurfersguatemala, who feel stoked to see their surfing culture grow and have had many activities happening. They want to give thanks and praise to the only one who makes them happy, Christ, who makes them stronger all the time! Pray for their leaders to be a strong witness and for the grommets to know the love of Christ.
 

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