Fullness of Christ

This last week we were so blessed to be able to attend the annual Mitarbeiterkonferenz at Calvary Chapel Siegen. This year the theme of the conference was "Be Filled with the Fullness of Christ," which was based out of the book of Ephesians.
Pastor Ricky Ryan once again brought out a great team from Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, as well as many other Senior Pastors to come and minister to those who are serving here in Europe. This year was the 4th year that they have been doing this conference. This is now our 2nd time going to this conference and we were once again supremely blessed with it.
Pastor Ricky started the conference teachings out by saying something like this...
"If you want to really study about theology, than you study the book of Romans. If you want to study about how the Old and New Testaments come together, then you study the book of Hebrews. If you want to look at the life of Jesus and see how He loved and served the people, than you study the Gospels. But if you want to have your life changed, than you study the book of Ephesians!"
As the conference went on each of the pastors (Ricky Ryan, John Spencer, Nick Long, David Guzik, Lance Ralston, Ed Rae, and Bob Botsford) brought forth powerful messages going through the whole book of Ephesians! I would definitely encourage all of you to get a hold of these messages that will be on Calvary Chapel Siegen's web page available for download in a week or two. You can even watch the videos!

One of the blessings about the conference is that they provide a great team to do the Children's Ministry so that the parents can really take in the Word! We were really excited about this! Unfortunately, Tuesday was the only day that we were able to go to the conference all together as a family. :( On Wednesday morning, Aliyah woke up with a temperature of over 100 degrees and stayed that way throughout the rest of the conference. I was personally really bummed about this as I was really looking forward to going to this conference together as a family! So Rebecca allowed me to go the rest of the week with Katie as she took care of Aliyah and Noah at home. (She is such a giver! I have the best wife in the world! No, you don't. I do!) Katie and I did have a great time together and she was able to go with the rest of the kids at the conference to the Circus which was taking place just down the street! She said that she had so much fun!

Personally, the Lord really did a work of His Spirit in my heart and mind. He really used these pastors to speak directly to me through this great book of Ephesians! So what I want to personally encourage you to do is to read through the book of Ephesians in your personal time. Stop what you are reading now and read through it! Allow the Holy Spirit to lead you into all the fullness of who you are in Christ! (more on this later)

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Lastly, one of the pastors who taught was Pastor Bob Botsford. I am not sure if you saw or not, but he was recently was on Larry King Live with Larry King, Ted Haggard, and Jennifer Knapp. I am not going to get into details over all that is going on with Jennifer Knapp, but I want to encourage you to look up the videos on YouTube and watch this 4-part interview. Once you have watched it, please do be praying for Jennifer Knapp, Larry King, and Ted Haggard.