January 26th, 2025 - Do You Have Time?

Scripture Passage:  Ecclesiastes 3:1-14Slide 1

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Your Great Big Mission Budget
Stewardship

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Do you have time?

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Chronos: We all have 24 hours a day for 365 days each year.
Kairos: there are events that move us from the past into the future

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Kinds of Time
LXX Septuagint
  1 There is a chronos and a kairos for everything...
2 a kairos to....a kairos to...

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Your life is a season in time
 2     a time to be born and a time to die,

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No clear allotments.
Calls for wisdom.
Wisdom: walking with Jesus in constant conversation

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Some may be pretty clear
 a time to plant and a time to uproot,

     a time to tear down and a time to build,

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Some should be way out of balance
a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace

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Some require relational attention
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to be silent and a time to speak

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Some may need community input
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend

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The wisdom of boundaries
 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.  

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The wisdom of limitation
  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

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Assess your time:
1. Receive each season as a gift.
2. What values show through your schedule?
3. What season are you in?
4. Which time decisions challenge you?

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Live in community:
With whom will you discuss your stewardship of time?
How do you talk about it with God?