Video Ministry Short: The Wedding

4/17/2020

As a college student in Atlantic Union College we did this video as part of a play that was a mock wedding representing the marriage God wants with us.

Credits: Royalty Free music from www.FesliyanStudios.com
Wedding Processional Music: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Song: "Tomorrow" by the Winans Actors - Scott, Tiffany, Jason
Created by Wayne Jamel and the SMA Special Ministries Team
(Paul Steward assisted I believe. It was a long time ago. Hard to remember.)

Discussion Question:
Why is it dangerous to keep pushing off God's pleading?

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below:

5 Comments

Michella Calix

4/17/2020 09:41:39 pm

We were never meant to feel the pain of being abandoned. That's not what God intended for us. When sin came into our world, one of it's most terrible side effect was hurt and brokenness. Hurting people who would hurt and hurt other people's hearts.

I can remember failing a test that I really wanted to pass. I studied and tried my best, but I just didn't have the ability at that particular moment to pass. The same goes for people who fail God. Sometimes they do not want to fail, but they just do because of sin.

People make mistakes, but God does not. God cannot fail us. He cannot leave us or forsake us (Deut 31:6). Not just because He has to. He abandoned His own son because He wants to be with us. He chose us. (John 3:16).

We may have felt left out because we don't have a friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, or a father/mother to trust in, but God is our forever. When the whole world walks out, our Father rushes in to be our companion, our listener, our best friend, our everything.

It becomes dangerous when we push off God's pleading because like a rubber band that stretches over and over again, we become deform, unrecognizable, and shapeless. Despite of all the damage, our Father stills loves us. Just like an addicted patient, there's that slowing speed of recovery every time we go astray because we may feel like giving up the fight and giving into our addiction rather than continuing to work hard and overcoming the desire to repeat our sin. It gets harder to avoid the knocking at the door when you clearly know who is behind it.

We already have to age a little and, maybe, gain some weight throughout our life, why put ourselves in much more scrutiny?

Wayne Jamel

4/18/2020 08:13:45 am

Isn't that the beautiful thing about the love of God?
What poetic words you put together.
The rubberband analogy makes a lot of sense. The more we stray and the more we keep on straying, the harder it is for us to come back to God. It's like we become desensitized to sin. But the more we get to know God more natural it is for us to be drawn to Him.

Michella Calix

4/18/2020 01:44:45 pm

It really is beautiful. For the most part in my life, I feel I was that person. I grew up hearing how angry God was with His creation. I longed to serve and please God, I did it from a very unhealthy place of fear. I heard a lot about what was upsetting God and how my actions were causing His anger. My approach to God was one of a distant relationship and parallel as my relationship with my earthly father, I was in a state that it was better to serve God from a distance and be content that if I did not get everything right, I could expect judgement in my life. I lived with an expectation that things will always go wrong for not keeping all of His commands. So I tithing and attended church so that's how I served Him; creating no relationship.

Knowing that God is Love (1 John 4:8), I now know, like the apostle John, without a revelation of who God is and how much He loves us, it will be easy for the storms and trials of life to beat us down and keep us in fear of judgement and condemnation. The enemy keeps thriving to derail from the belief that God's love is an internal attraction- not an external one. The attraction that never gets old or boring, It keeps going. Its like that butterfly in your stomach when meeting your newborn niece or nephew for the first time or anyone for that matter.

Wayne Jamel

4/23/2020 02:46:22 pm

That interesting. Being that you mentioned serving God from an unhealthy place of fear, I wonder what were your thoughts on Monday's discussion from ReThink Church

Michella Calix

4/24/2020 03:40:45 pm

What makes it difficult for people to understand, or for myself at first, was the acceptance that we become afraid of what we do not know. As a result, we become overly engaged in creating a generic relationship with God; allowing us to feed ourselves in truth we shouldn’t believe in in the first place. Its like starting a new diet, but not knowing where and how to start. So many information so little time to get it right the first time so you begin to binge on all of it. That’s how I see many Christians who refuses to accept a new lens when seeking a new walk with Christ. Because they know too much. We sometime try to beat fear with knowledge; doing anything to please God to avoid being in the other side of the fence against Him. That’s what I’ve done to feel safe.

Because we lack understanding of the word fear, we unassumingly predict what we should do is obtain large amount of “God” information to remain obedient to God without application. Camouflaging yourself as saints only beats the person of being align with Christ. Make up is after all a temporary illusion of what we really want people to see. Other than that, people tend to look good and temporarily feel good until they’ve been spotted. I like what Marcello stated about fear as being a layer of different definition which manifest to wisdom over time. It shows there is much more to fear than we thought. Since we see fear in the basic definition, we automatically feel that it’s a bad thing when in fact- it might be the only thing that separate us from eternal life with Christ and death.

There this book called Re-Churching the Unchurched by George Barna. It’s a good read because there are several ways of gaining insight behind the absence of the unchurched and he explains it. Even though it’s a book from late 90’s to early 2000’s, society haven’t change much to compromise his theory about people and church. Those who constantly pushes the word down to unchurched folks’ throat sees no regret on how it leaves little room to allow that person to experience Christ in the first person; hence maybe the reason why people fear the church altogether. This wheel of generational curse in church keeps rolling. My question now is, “How do we stop the wheel of generational curse from rolling another day?”

Video Ministry Short: The Wedding

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