Barefoot Church Internships

How does this sound? Serving Christ and seeing lives changed that are changing the world in the middle of a city that has the ocean as its backdrop? Pretty awesome huh? Well you could be a part of all that and more by participating in the internship program here at Barefoot Church. If you or someone you know are interested in interning with Barefoot Church, then this blog should help. This will be our second season of internships here at Barefoot Church and we're excited about being able to provide this opportunity for the coming season of ministry. We promise that this opportunity will be unlike anything you have experienced before.

Interns are given leadership from day one. They will receive direction, they will be coached up and supported as they lead, but the ultimate goal is delegation. We want these interns to KNOW they have been equipped by God with everything they need to Advance His Kingdom!

Still here???…. Well Here’s what you need to know:

The Barefoot Church Internship Program is designed to give participants ministry experience as well as a glimpse into the life of someone in ministry. Interns will work alongside Barefoot staff members and volunteers.

Here’s the Timeline:

- Applications are due by November 12th (if you’d like one just EMAIL US)

-Interviews will occur between the last week of November and the first week of December.

-Selections will be made and interns will be notified by December 11.

-Interns will begin serving January 11 & serve through May 2. (16 wks)

***We will be on the campus of Liberty University October 28-30 for the Church Planting Week Internship Fair.

Tough Questions

The message that Clay and Kim brought yesterday was both challenging and inspirational. The story of what God has done in their marriage and both of their hearts is incredible and such an encouragement to young married men such as myself. It seems that several churches yesterday addressed the issue of marriage one of those messages came from Perry Noble who is the senior pastor of New Spring Church in Anderson, SC. As a take home, they provided some bullet points that are red flags to identify when we as husbands are slacking off or when our wives are slacking off, followed by some real transparent questions that are crucial to be asked. So in the spirit of yesterday's message here at Barefoot on marriage and as a challenge to all of us to wake up and acknowledge what God has put in front of us in our marriages, I thought I would share the questions and points with you:

How Do You Know When Your Spouse Is Slacking Off?

• What is special to her is no longer special to him – you didn’t have this attitude when you were dating, but once you married her you thought, “I don’t have to work now!” Wrong…you’ve got to work harder!
• You won’t pray with her or for her!
• You stop pursuing her romantically and sexually.
• You see her as your servant rather than your opportunity to serve.
• You want to use her for sex and don’t care if she truly feels connected romantically to you.
• You talk down to her and/or constantly raise your voice to her.
• You compare her to other women…in front of her.
• You are keeping secrets from her.

She’s Slacking Off When…

• You love talking about him (in your prayer gossip group) but have no desire to talk to him about the problem.
• You love it when he spends more time at work…that means you don’t have to be around him as much.
• You disrespect him out loud and often in front of your children.
• You know TONS about the lives of your kids…but are clueless about what is going on in his life.
• You withold sex to punish him and/or to get your way.
• You are keeping secrets from him.

And…in case you didn’t pick up the questions yesterday (or for those who were not there)…we handed out a card with five questions on it that we challenged husbands and wives to use as a guide to have a conversation with one another sometime in the next 24 hours…the questions were…

1) Have you ever had sex with someone other than me since we have been married?
2) Where have I become slack in my efforts to make you feel important?
3) Men ask your wife to complete this sentence: I think its romantic
when you_____.
4) Women ask your husband to complete this sentence:I feel the most
appreciated and respected when you________.
5)Are you engaging in anything online that you be ashamed of if I found out?

Rhythm Week 1

Influence

Came across this post on my good friend Brad Cooper's blog thought I would share it with you all...

In a day when so many are trying so hard to have so much control, we just want influence. We don’t want to have meetings and votes and arguments and lawsuits and power struggles. We just want influence.

We want to influence non-Christians to meet Jesus Christ and begin their eternity-altering walk with Him.

We want to influence Christians to grow in their love for Jesus, Scripture, God’s mission in the world, and God’s portion of that mission through their local church.

We want to influence Christian leaders to humbly persevere by God’s grace and know something of the joy of the Holy Spirit.

We want to influence churches to hope for more, plan for more, and demand more because Jesus is alive and that fact changes everything.

influence is what Christ gave to His Church when He commissioned them with ALL-AUTHORITY… The goal of every Christ follower with every minute of every day should be to terminate that influence on a dead world.

Christ in Christians is the HOPE OF GLORY….

The rub on this whole truth is that too many Christ-followers are terminating their influence on temporal things… temporal relationships…. temporal political parties…. temporal careers… temporal bank accounts…

ETERNAL AUTHORITY was giving to empower ETERNAL INFLUENCE… Let’s not waste Today!

The Skinny on Life Groups