The Hope Blog

Why Perspectives?

God has a “world-sized” role for every Christian in His global purpose. It isn’t a class about missions, but a course on how every believer can be intimately woven into the story of God using His people to be a blessing to all the peoples of the earth. From Genesis to the prophets, Jesus Christ to the early church, and Constantine to today, you will see how God has been moving, how the global Church has responded, and what the greatest needs in world evangelization remain today.

What is Perspectives?

Perspectives is a 15 week course designed around four vantage points or “perspectives” — Biblical, Historical, Cultural and Strategic highlighting different aspects of God’s global purpose.

The Biblical and Historical sections reveal why our confidence is based on the historic fact of God’s relentless work from the dawn of history until this day.

The Cultural and Strategic sections underscore that we are in the midst of a costly, but very “do-able” task, confirming the Biblical and Historical hope.

Curriculum, co-edited by our own Steve Hawthorne

The Perspectives Reader is a collection of the best articles by a wide variety of Biblical scholars, historians, missiologists, and practicioners to usher students through the study of God’s mission and character through the Bible, Christian history, culture, and the task remaining in world evangelization. Class activities and our unique instructor format bring the class alive to explore what God is doing in the world today.

Three Austin Classes:

UT Central 

https://class.perspectives.org/Visitor/Public.aspx?ClassId=432862

January 24th

Sundays, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

360 South

https://class.perspectives.org/Visitor/Public.aspx?ClassId=432863

January 25th, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Mondays 

620 North

https://class.perspectives.org/Visitor/Public.aspx?ClassId=432836

January 26th

Tuesdays, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Get Threaded into The Story!

Whether you know them or not, plan to welcome them home at the reception after the Sunday service on January 24th. We’ll eat sandwiches for lunch and hear details about how God is leading them now. 

Longtime Hopites and recent overseas missionaries, Mark and Ceci Proeger (and children: Asher, Noah, and Selah) have returned from CPx – the All Nations’ Church Planting School in Capetown, South Africa. We want to hear about their time there and what they’ll be doing now that they are back in Austin. 

On Sunday, Geno asked the Hope Chapel congregation to join in prayer and fasting for the group who will meet all day this Saturday, January 16th to hear the Lord about Hope’s missions’ decisions. He asked us to fast this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from food (non-solid diet) and/or from media and spend that time in prayer for the Mission’s group to have:

    • ears to hear

    • an ability to focus

    • Unity, and 

    • for whatever the Lord shows you how to pray for them.

Geno invited anyone who’d like to come pray on Friday night the 16th to close out the time to meet in the main auditorium at 7:00 p.m.

Come spend an evening of extended worship! Everyone is welcome – we want to honor God and increase the praise going up from our planet to the One who is worthy of ALL praise. Come fill the auditorium with songs, dance, praise, and passion. Let’s more deeply discover the very thing which God created us for – to experience His Glory!

Child care provided for children 2nd grade and under, by reservation, from 7-8:30 PM. Deadline to RSVP is Sunday, Jan. 15th. RSVP by filling out the information below, then scroll to the bottom and click “Sign Up”.

We regret that the deadline has passed to reserve child care.

Come find a group on Wednesdays at Family Night (meeting until summer). At Hope Chapel we believe strongly that it is in the context of small groups that we really live out our faith in Christ and grow to become all that God dreams for us.  

Evening Meal and Schedule

5:30-6:15 p.m.: Mealtime (donations accepted to defray the cost but the meal is offered free of charge). Can’t make the meal? Come at:

6:15 p.m.: child care begins while we do a quick clean up

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Hope Groups meet

WHAT GROUPS ARE MEETING?

http://hope.org/ministries/hope-groups/find/

All groups are open but each has a theme.

It’s time for a new issue of Feast, sometime around first week of the New Year 2016. If you aren’t familiar with Feast, it’s our congregation’s art magazine, showing art work and poetry and spiritual reflection/meditation. You can actually find a copy of the current issue on the table in the foyer, in the bowl.

Do you have a poem or thought (or two)? A picture? Scans of original artwork? The deadline for submissions is January 2nd, at 5:00 p.m. to Kevin Daniel . Subject matter and theme can be based on responses to sermons, reflections on art exhibits, personal narratives revolving around life with God in this season. It doesn’t have to be anything other than honest.

Normal length of written submission is approximately 350 words, allowances can be made. Larger jpeg sizes for visual art preferred.