CG49 - Connect Group Values

Yesterday, we held a premiere service for our new Connect Group (CG). Before, we were planted in CG13. For me, I had been 3 years there and so blessed with the community. As God's vision for our city so large and our amount more increase, so that officially our leader Susan decided to born this new CG since a week ago before yesterday. When I had our ProM Revolution service last saturday, that was the moment I received the number 49 for our CG, yeay!

Thank you for Cindy Angelina Candelyn for providing a warm and comfortable home for our CG base. God will bless you more and more, we believe.
Thank you for our comrade and church leaders for the greeting in our CG day (4 December 2012 - CG 49 birthday, noted!).

We are 3 core members (me, Benny aka Bento, Lyna aka Agek) and 1 new member (Teguh). Our leader Susan forwarded nine newcomers to be followed up joining our CG. And I divided into some so that each of us could follow up respectively. The results were no one join our CG, some had joined other CG, some couldn't because of work. Holy Spirit told us, that there is no need to worry about, because the first thing first in our CG we look for is God's presence. And we reach this conclusion alike Paul told to Corinthian church (1 Cor 3:1-11, The Message):

3:1	But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ,
3:2	capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more.
3:3	As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way?
3:4	When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile?
3:5	Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us--servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment.
3:6	I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but [God] made you grow.
3:7	It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow.
3:8	Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages.
3:9	What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house.
3:10	Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation!
3:11	Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ.

So we were not disappointed when the results were no one. We are not a spiritual babies anymore. We are sent to God greater things for this city. We keep our eyes and heart to the foundation: Jesus Christ! And we started our history by our fantastic four team united-we-stand. Yeay!

So, what did we do for first service in our CG?
Most of our time spent for praise and worship God, and most of our statement is attitude of gratitude to the Christ for this new season, new experience, new CG. Each of us got rhema. I got the values (later after this lines I told you), Bento got vision, Agek got responsibility, and Teguh got vision too.

I shared the simple message quoted from Isaiah 54:2
"Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep."
I got this message in a way Holy Spirit guided me to this revelation:

Clear lots of ground for your tents! The tents are place for safety and protection area during camp in middle of heavy forest or mountainous hill. This first phrase talked about salvation in Jesus Christ. Our CG is called to draw many souls receiving the salvation God had given since long time ago.
Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! The salvation is not complete without a capacity to make people live in comfortably. This second phrase talked about purity and holiness by Holy Spirit. Our CG is called to set an example of purity and holiness in our private and relationships quality.
Use plenty of rope. The rope used for building a tent is various. Making the tent shape formed, the rope must be tied each other in strong node. This third phrase talked about unity in community. Our CG is called to build an unity through our different personality, dreams, behaviors, etc. So that through the unity, God as the head can direct us to catch His purposes in our city.
Drive the tent pegs deep. Do you know in every corner of tent always have a peg. So to make the tent stand firm and strong, there must be four pegs each corner and planted deep to the ground. This last phrase talked about four foundation we must have. First peg, is Words (logos & rhema). Second peg, is prayer. Third peg, is Holy Spirit fruits. Last peg, is Holy Spirit gifts. Without one of them, the tent cannot stand. Our CG is called to move in righteousness and holiness through these four foundations.

Last but not least, I was so proud to say this CG pertamax edition is a description for our CG function. One day we feel exhausted, disappointed, weak, hurt, this CG is a gas station, we will be renewed one by one in our togetherness.
For me, I am so happy to have this CG, to let God as our captain commander move us to greater and newer experience with Him. What first thing comes in my mind when people mention and talk CG49 is Thank You Jesus.

Are you ready for revolution? Revolution now!