The Parable of The Foolish Builder!

OK wow this week has gone so fast, honestly feels like yesterday i wrote the last one of these! its been such a busy yet cool week! every night this week i have been out going to some people's from church's houses for dinner and then helping at Kids Club then finally at Echo! so going through the week, i had my first KFC in a long long time which was Wonder full!! then i had a great catch up with my line manager at Mount Zion! were we discussed all about what i was getting up to right now, what else i need to get on with, to check everything i was doing was OK and just to see what else we can do to help the church! is Wonder full meeting up with Her and is great just to talk! then i helped at Life Kids which is the Kids club at Life church! this week was Jungle theme like im  celebrity so we had lots of games were you had to gather stars and luckily this week i had all the nice kids so was great and FUN!!!!! then Finally we ended this great week with a chance to get youth groups from all over East Lancashire to get together at Life church and i managed to lead the Worship at that! which was a great opportunity and went well!! Then Finally Today (Sunday) i was playing in the Band again which again was a great thing to do! On Saturday i had my first experience of a motorbike, my host drives one so i was on the back and we were driving around for an hour was great when he was hitting top speeds and was a whole bunch of Fun :)



The Parable of the Foolish builder....  i found when i was reading this passage this week that this story is so well known, its probably one of the most popular parables there is, and im sure there isnt one Christian who do-sent know this off by heart!  but yet, ive heard this story 100000000 of times yet i havent heard this story! its one of these things that happens, if you hear something enough times you remember it but you brush over the meaning because 'you know it' sort of thing! so although i know this parable.... i haven't really thought about it before. So i was reading it from Matthew because i loved the way that Book portrayed the passage!  OK so firstly Jesus says 'anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys it is wise' so reading that you know that what you about to hear inst just about listening to Jesus and agree with what he is saying its about living what Jesus is saying! (this may sound like the simplest of analogies youve heard but sometimes its good to go back to basics) so jesus is talking about living a life Like him not just agreeing with him. So he continues by saying ' like a person who builds a house on solid rock' the great thing about Jesus is, he gives us pictures to associate things with! Jesus could simply say 'Anyone who listens to me is wise' and end there but know it shows how important this message is that he is giving it to us in an easy way hes drawing it out for us!  its like he's made the food, is dished it up, hes cut it all, hes put it on the spoon, hes moved it to our mouths... he's done all the hard work, now all we have to do is listen and do what he's saying. just have to open our mouths and eat the food! so if you listen to me and obey me then your like a wise man.. BUT  ( a big But) if you listen to my word and dont obey me your like a man who builds his house on sand! OK im sure we have all seen pictures of this were you build a house on some rock and its ok then build it on sand and its not OK so i wont bother spelling the picture out to you! but i think we can go deeper... its like church, i think this passage maybe meant for Church, listening about Gods word every week yet not living it, your  fool.. but listen and apply it your wise!! i just encourage you to read james 1 v 19-26 this amplifies Jesus message about listening and doing! i just want to end this by adding something in which i read this week...  me and My Burnley team are doing a study on ACTS and this week was Acts 4! and in that it says at bs 11 'the stone that you builders rejected ha now become your corner stone' so if you look into depth about a cornerstone is the main piece of a building without it there is no building! and in this passage its called jesus the corner stone!   and i just want to link that into this parable! so Now i want to challenge you with two things.... One  Be a wise man build your house on the rock.. listen To Jesus and OBEY him and build you house on rock... but also when you build your house make sure Jesus is the cornerstone.. make sure everything you do is based around him.. so that you have a strong foundations everywhere... make Jesus the center of Everything...


So this week i have monday tuesday off which should be nice.. then wednesday me and my team travel to Blackpool for 4 days to lead the worship down at there M4 conference, which is a chance to inspire and send young people out into the communities and school to make them missionaries... so that should be GREAT!!!!! and then im ending the week with just a little visit home i dunno i think i might get baptized not sure yet ;) so yeah great week ahead :D


Prayer points.....

that the two days off rest ARE days of rest.. that i dont get to bogged down with things i need to do and actually enjoy the days off...
That the conference will go great.. that every young person who comes will be inspired to promote the love of JEsus in there areas
that my baptism with go swimmingly :D