Welcome to the professional website and personal weblog of Jeremy Del Rio. Whether you're a client, friend, or curious onlooker, please don't stay a spectator. Engage the conversation. Your contributions matter here.
« I surrender | Home | Texas Releases 226 "Improperly Jailed" Youth »
Out of the Wreckage, Men’s Session
By Jeremy | May 19, 2007
I fully intended to live blog more of UYWI this year, but in between four workshops, the pre-conference justice forum, and just catching up with old friends and meeting new ones, it hasn't been possible. So consider subscribing to the Free Podcast (audio and video) and take your own notes. ;)
Here are my notes from this morning's Men Session.
"Healing the Brokenhearted"
- Larry Acosta Sometimes our humanity leaks. We need a band of brothers to help us break the sin cycles. Healing others requires receiving healing first. We need to create safe places where our brokeness can be redeemed and restored. Are we leading healthier lives that help others heal as well? Become wounded healers. [Two powerful testimonies.] God wants to break the sin cycle, but it requires us to first go public -- "share your wreckage" -- with safe brothers. Stop letting Satan punk you. Break into huddles of 3-4; ask, "What is the wreckage in your life?"; and pray together. - Efrem Smith Exodus 3:1-15 v 9: "And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen" v 10: "So now, go. I am sending you" v 12a: "I will be with you." v12b: "And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt," v 12c: "... you will worship God on this mountain." v 14: "I am who I am." Biblical covenant is about the purposes of God that he expects to work through us. Moses was raised up because people were in slavery. God's purpose was deliverance. Justice. There are still plantations today: consumerism, fatherlessness, addictions, false masculinity, etc. God wanted to speak to Moses. Moses had some issues -- even though he was working for the priest (v 1). He was still disconnected. We don't know Moses' daddy's name: "A man from the house of Levi." He grew up disconnected from his biological family. He was born the "wrong race." Comes into the world despised. True identity masked to survive. He's despised in the culture, but allowed to be raised in the "Big House" of the dominant culture. Then became a convict -- killed somebody. "Thuggin and muggin." Yet God called Moses to HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED. [Efrem gets personal. "Shondala on the chandelier." *It's getting hot in hrrr.* Receive this annointing.] Colossians 3:3-14 v 3-8: the covenant bond with God. v 9: transition to the covenant with man: "Do not lie to one another" After God hooked up Moses, he gave him Aaron. Wasn't enough for Moses to covenant with God. He'd have Aaron to stand with him and hold up his arms. Embrace the bond with God and the bond with brother. Take the burning of the bush externally and receive the burning of annointing internally. [Communion]Topics: brotherhood, efrem smith, fatherlessness, larry acosta, leadership, mentoring, sex, UYWI | 1 Comment »
May 21st, 2007 at 6:38 pm
This trully was a great Mens Session. God really did show up and gave men the courage to go deep with other men about issues we need to be real about and deal with. Thank God! He chooses to use the unqualified!
“He doesn”t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” Unknown
Daniel Arellano