Another week bites the dust.

Week four of the DTS was Abrahamic Covenant weekThe first lecture week of the DTS we spent looking at who God is. The second week was spent looking at who we are. And this third week has been spent looking at what God is up to, and what his unchanging purpose is. Steve Sullivan took us through the Bible to show us that God really is 100% committed to his promise, which he confirmed to Abraham with an oath. God wants to bless us, and he wants us to be a blessing to all peoples! What a wonderful God he is! Going through the Bible confronted those of us that have gone to Sunday school with the fact that we often have ideas about the Bible which are not entirely true. And we found that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, king David, king Solomon, the prophets, Daniel, Nehehiah, Peter, Paul, the writer of Hebrews and Jesus (to name a few), all had the Abrahamic Covenant in their pockets! This week we had quite a few young people turn up to the dry bar we put on in the city centre, on the Friday evening. We’re really enjoying getting to know the youth of Carlisle and hanging out with them.After having done a prayer walk down Botchergate in the morning we set out into the cold on the Friday night more equipped and more aware of what we’re coming up against in our evangelism there. We went out armed with prayer and lots of coffee, and were ready to bless people! It’s great to see people’s faces light up when they see us coming with a warm coffee for them on these cold October nights... and it’s especially nice to get into conversation with people and be able to talk with them about Jesus!Anyway, now that we’ve looked at what the family business is, we’re going to spend next week looking at getting really good at doing being a real blessing to people, and clearly communicating Christ to them!- Emma Wagner