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Reading
Mathew 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
14 Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”
15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
16 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
How you are feeling about Open Home eventually ending/becoming a part of Bethany? Is there grief, hurt or fear that comes up? What does God want to say to those feelings?
All of us at Open Home will need to let go of old wine skins, whatever new thing God does with us, things are not going to be the same, and this season of change could be an opportunity for positive growth for all of us. Ask God, what are my fears? Are there old wineskins you want me to let go of?
Many of the things we have been and done as a community are beautiful, and from God. Some of these things will fit in the new wine skin. What things (both practices, and intangible vibes) do you love about our community and hope we keep? What things about partnership with Bethany are you hopeful about?
He gives us all his love
He gives us all his love
He gives us all his love
He's smiling down on us from up above
And he's giving us all his love
He knows how hard we're trying
He hears the babies crying
He sees the old folks dying
From up above, he gives us all his love
Now if you need someone to talk to
You can always talk to him
And if you need someone to lean on
You can lean on him
Hidden in your life
Lord I am sitting here with you
Knowing that there’s nothing else I need to do
Just sittin here and hopin that you’ll teach me the things you want to
Lord there’s less and less of me
me’s a thing that I just can not plan to see
Till I see you, yes I see you, really see you, in your glory
Chorus
I’ve now died
And who I am is now hidden in your life
So I’m alive
More and more everyday
I’ve now died
So set my mind up up above and on your life
Oh I’m alive
More and more Everyday
Lord I am sitting here with you
If your loves the only thing i take away then that’ll do,
I don’t need to go hear something from somebody, when I’m hearing from you,
Lord I am coming home to you,
My ego’s getting quieter, the more of this I do,
Cause Your loves enough to make me really love me, just like you do,
The earth is groaning
To see God’s kids come dancing out, I know that’s you and me
Inside the spirit’s sighing
with words so deep they capture us from deaths captivity
Who you say I am
Who am I that the highest King would welcome me?
I was lost, but He brought me in
Oh, His love for me
Oh, His love for me
Chorus
Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeed
I'm a child of God, yes I am
In my Father's house
There's a place for me
I'm a child of God, yes I am
Free at last, He has ransomed me
His grace runs deep
While I was a slave to sin, Jesus died for me
Yes, He died for me
I am chosen, not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me, not against me
I am who You say I am
