Red Moon Rising

Quotes from Red Moon Rising (some of these concepts also taught by Lyndall Bywater at our Mission and Prayer Conference)

God uses young people again and again to help restore nations and shape their destiny.  Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.  Re: Evangelism/Harvest:  Our opportunities are those of the World Wide Web, budget travel, the rise of tribalism and the postmodern desire for community, authentic spirituality and social justice.

Lectio divina:  God’s very self ‘breaks in upon the middle of our prayer, runs to meet us in all haste and restores our weary soul.’

The Vision:  The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.  It makes children laugh and adults angry.  It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars.  It scorns the good and strains for the best.  It is dangerously pure.

The ultimate 24-7 prayer room is the human heart fully surrendered to God and not a room full of coffee mugs and hand-drawn pictures!  We don’t want to withdraw people from society to live in spiritual bubbles of perpetual prayer, rather we want to immerse ourselves in society, having immersed ourselves in the Spirit – in the world and yet full of God and overflowing.  Maybe this is a new day in which the fullness of God awaits us in the streets and clubs and pubs.  Of course God will attend our meetings…But perhaps there is a weariness, even a reluctance, in his heart as he gazes back over his shoulder, out of the church door and into the street.  We’ve spent (30) years saying “come, Holy Spirit” and he came.  Now, if the Spirit says “come”, the question is this:  Will we obey?  ‘Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.’ (C.T. Studd)

Jesus was intimate with the Father in prayer.  This gave him, and will give us, the passion to continue whatever the odds in loving our neighbor in whatever context God places us.

All of this and more prepared me for our conference and for God moving and speaking to me.  Not sure how it all fits together yet.  I’ll write more about the conference later.