Reading Essential Jesus Pt 3 - What is your greatest need?

What is your greatest need? What do you want more than anything else in the world? I reckon it depends on what your problem is. If you are sitting at home watching the footy it might be a pie and chips. If you were in the wilderness, it might be that you desperately want some water. Our greatest need always relates to our greatest problem.

If you watch Bear Grylls on Man vs Wild you would see a guy who is always quick to find what he needs. Whenever I watch I have noticed that he always finds water, food, fire and shelter wherever he can. Along the way he faces a lot of challenges and problems, whether it be a treacherous crossing or a fast flowing river but because he knows what the problems are, he knows how to deal with them.

But what is interesting about Bear Grylls is that he realises he has a greater problem. The same problem that the paralytic man below has. But as you read on below can you work out what is his greatest need?

Reading Essential Jesus Pt 1 - Confessions of a Failed Preacher

I don't know whether other preachers or speakers would say I should admit this but I will anyway. I have something to tell you...

I was thinking about the last two talks I did at Ignite. Every time I sit down and right a talk I try and think hard about what the passage is saying. I have always been taught, "read the passage in its context." This means see where the passage fits in the flow of the whole book and even the whole Bible. But last night as I sat down, I realised that there was something missing from my last two talks. Something in the context was really crucial!

How do I reach my goals?

Last week at Ignite I was asked "will we have a combined night where we look at setting goals?" I am not sure that we will next term but it might be something we do in the future because setting goals is an important topic to look at.

I was reminded of how important it is when I picked up a copy of the briefing this morning (an Australian Christian magazine on the Bible). In it was an article by a bloke named Tony Payne called God's Agenda. It is an article that really got me thinking.

Tony started the article by getting us to imagine that our life is like one big boardroom meeting. Your birth is when you come into the meeting and your life is when you go out. His big point was that all meetings have agenda's. An agenda is a list of priorities that is discussed at a meeting. We need to ask what is the agenda for our life? What are your goals? What are your priorities?