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<blockquote data-quote="money_pit_yj" data-source="post: 644367" data-attributes="member: 7710"><p>What is COTR?</p><p>My wife and I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying about what we want COTR to be and how we want it to look. Over the past three years we have had friends and fellow believers encourage us and help us shape this vision God laid on my heart. Here recently we have been in a season where we just cannot neglect our other ministry responsibilities to focus much time on COTR other than prayer. It doesn't matter if we are aggressively working on COTR stuff or simply praying over the ministry, the one thing that keeps coming up is this: What is COTR? Church on the Rocks (COTR) has been through multiple different "identities" since we hatched the vision in 2014. Is it an event promotion group? Is it a church? Is it a club? Does it have members? Is it a prayer ministry? Is it a devotional writing ministry? Is it a discipleship ministry? The answer to all those questions is, yes. I think COTR is more of a mindset than anything, a "movement" if you will. Granted I would love for it to be a huge regularly scheduled event where I get to stand up and worship with and preach to hundreds of people in their rigs and spend a day with folks on the trails, but for now I feel God is leading us to encourage those in our sphere of influence to do, as Paul says and be imitators. 1 Corinthians 11:1 says "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ." Paul was radically changed on the Damascus road, and made the commitment to go and tell people of this change and who Jesus was. Paul, Peter, Timothy, Titus, and the rest of the early disciples WERE the church. In that day and age we didn't have churches on every corner, but there were men who were totally committed to Christ and telling folks of the Gospel. They were tent makers, doctors, fishermen, and other working men of the day, but more than that they were Christians. They were Christians in a day where that was not the thing to be, they have counted the cost of what it takes to follow Christ and be His church and they faithfully did their work while intentionally making disciples. I lived a lukewarm Christian life for a long time. I wanted to be Christian when it fit, and worldly when it fit; but I made the commitment that no matter where I was, or who I was around, I was going to be what God called me to be. That is where Church on the Rocks came from. I am committed to be the Church if I am on the trails at Hawk Pride, in the sanctuary at my church, working on the jeep or serving orphans. I don't have it right by any means, I screw up daily and need His grace, but I know that God has called us to be strong and courageous and take his names to the far ends of the earth. I also know that the far ends of the earth include the trails we ride weekly and if you are a born again believer God has given you a testimony to share with those around you to lead others to a relationship with him. Let's take our bushel baskets off the light Christ shines through us and let's commit today to be Church on the Rocks. </p><p></p><p>God, help me be who you created me to be no matter where I am. Help me live my life the way Paul did and be an imitator of Christ. </p><p></p><p></p><p>PS-I hope the next few devotionals that I write will be practical ways we can be Church On the Rocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="money_pit_yj, post: 644367, member: 7710"] What is COTR? My wife and I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying about what we want COTR to be and how we want it to look. Over the past three years we have had friends and fellow believers encourage us and help us shape this vision God laid on my heart. Here recently we have been in a season where we just cannot neglect our other ministry responsibilities to focus much time on COTR other than prayer. It doesn’t matter if we are aggressively working on COTR stuff or simply praying over the ministry, the one thing that keeps coming up is this: What is COTR? Church on the Rocks (COTR) has been through multiple different “identities” since we hatched the vision in 2014. Is it an event promotion group? Is it a church? Is it a club? Does it have members? Is it a prayer ministry? Is it a devotional writing ministry? Is it a discipleship ministry? The answer to all those questions is, yes. I think COTR is more of a mindset than anything, a “movement” if you will. Granted I would love for it to be a huge regularly scheduled event where I get to stand up and worship with and preach to hundreds of people in their rigs and spend a day with folks on the trails, but for now I feel God is leading us to encourage those in our sphere of influence to do, as Paul says and be imitators. 1 Corinthians 11:1 says “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” Paul was radically changed on the Damascus road, and made the commitment to go and tell people of this change and who Jesus was. Paul, Peter, Timothy, Titus, and the rest of the early disciples WERE the church. In that day and age we didn’t have churches on every corner, but there were men who were totally committed to Christ and telling folks of the Gospel. They were tent makers, doctors, fishermen, and other working men of the day, but more than that they were Christians. They were Christians in a day where that was not the thing to be, they have counted the cost of what it takes to follow Christ and be His church and they faithfully did their work while intentionally making disciples. I lived a lukewarm Christian life for a long time. I wanted to be Christian when it fit, and worldly when it fit; but I made the commitment that no matter where I was, or who I was around, I was going to be what God called me to be. That is where Church on the Rocks came from. I am committed to be the Church if I am on the trails at Hawk Pride, in the sanctuary at my church, working on the jeep or serving orphans. I don’t have it right by any means, I screw up daily and need His grace, but I know that God has called us to be strong and courageous and take his names to the far ends of the earth. I also know that the far ends of the earth include the trails we ride weekly and if you are a born again believer God has given you a testimony to share with those around you to lead others to a relationship with him. Let’s take our bushel baskets off the light Christ shines through us and let’s commit today to be Church on the Rocks. God, help me be who you created me to be no matter where I am. Help me live my life the way Paul did and be an imitator of Christ. PS-I hope the next few devotionals that I write will be practical ways we can be Church On the Rocks. [/QUOTE]
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