Despre Frică...

"Photo: Bernat Casero"

În 21 aprilie 2013, Pastor Sava Tomin a predicat la Kairos despre frică.  Mai jos găsiți o parte din schița predicii lui...

Despre Frică

1. Ce este frica?

FRÍCĂ, (rar) frici, s. f. Stare de adâncă neliniște și tulburare, provocată de un pericol real sau imaginar; lipsă de curaj, teamă, înfricoșare.

Frica este o emoție indusă de o amenințare percepută care cauzează individul să se retragă rapid din prezența ei și, de obicei, să se ascundă.  Este un mecanism de supraviețuire bazic care apare ca răspuns la un stimul specific, cum ar fi durerea sau amenințarea unui pericol.  Pe scurt, frica este abilitatea de a recunoaște pericolul care duce la dorința/imboldul de a-l confrunta sau de a fugi de el (de asemenea cunoscut ca și ’răspunsul luptă-sau-fugă/fight-or-flight response’) dar în cazuri de frică extremă (groază și teroare) posibilă ar fi o reacție de îngheț sau paralizie/neputință.

2. Diferite tipuri de frică

Frica de:

1. Abandon/părăsire
2. A fi rău, corupt, defectuos
3. A fi controlat de alții
4. A fi defavorizat
5. A fi nedreptățit
6. A fi incapabil
7. A fi lipsit de valoare
8. A nu fi iubit
9. A fi nefolositor
10. Schimbare
11. Conflict
12. Moarte
13. Înfrângere
14. Declin, reducere la nimic
15. Boală
16. A face rău, a face vreo escrocherie
17. Eșec, faliment, ratare
18. A-i rănii pe alții
19. Ignoranță, neștiință
20. Incompetență
21. Decizii incorecte
22. Rană, leziuni
23. Nesiguranță
24. A fi vulnerabil
25. Izolare
26. A fi în lipsuri, a experimenta nevoi
27. A fi limitat, încapacitat, în neputință
28. Singurătate
29. A părea stupid, nătâng, absurd, prost
30. A pierde pe cineva apropiat
31. A pierde o relație cu o persoană
32. A pierde din punct de vedere material
33. Lipsa de sens
34. Lipsa identității
35. Durere
36. Oameni
37. A fi lipsit de importanță personală
38. Posesivitate
39. Sărăcie
40. Vorbit în public
41. Respingere
42. Relații
43. Responsabilitate
44. A fi demascat
45. Auto-expresie, a avea o voce
46. Egoism
47. Despărțire
48. Sexualitate
49. Timiditate
50. Succes
51. A fi lipsit de sprijin
52. Adevăr
53. Dumnezeu
54. Datorie
55. Să fii tu însuți
56. Necunoscut

3. Ce spune Biblia despre frică?

• Proverbe 1 - Citiți tot capitolul!!
• Isaia 41:10 (NTR) – Deci  nu te teme, caci Eu sunt cu tine! Nu te înspaimânta, caci Eu sunt Dumnezeul tau! Eu te voi întari, te voi ajuta și te voi sprijini cu dreapta Mea izbavitoare!
• Isaia 41:10/Cornilescu (RMNN) - ... nu te teme, caci Eu sînt cu tine; nu te uita cu îngrijorare, caci Eu sînt Dumnezeul tau; Eu te întaresc, tot Eu îti vin în ajutor. Eu te sprijinesc cu dreapta Mea biruitoare.
• Psalmi 56:11/Cornilescu (RMNN) – Mă încred în Dumnezeu, si nu mă tem de nimic: Ce pot să-mi facă niște oameni?

4. Cum pot să-mi înving frica?

Ascultă de Dumnezeu!

Proverbe 1:33 – „...dar cel ce m'ascultă va locui fără grijă, va trăi liniștit si fără să se teamă de vreun rău.”

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We are back!

    “Grup de oameni strans unit, legat prin interese si idealuri comune”….asta este una din definitiile care apar in DEX la cuvantul “familie”.  La Kairos, suntem un grup de oameni din ce in ce mai strans unit, legat prin interese si idealuri comune..deci, suntem o familie. Si ca orice familie sanatoasa, ne place sa petrecem timp impreuna.

    Am petrecut impreuna o vara fantastica..ne-am distrat mai ales la serile de barbeque si pool parties.   DAR a venit toamnaaaa si cum era cantecul :”eu vara nu dorm” , as putea spune ca la noi e “eu toamna nu dorm” hahaa…o data cu venirea toamnei, am reinceput si noi multe din “vechile” noastre activitati..

    Una din activitatile cele mai iubite de la Kairos e Breakfast with Wendy..dupa cum ii spune si numele, ne intalnim sa luam micul dejun impreuna si sa ascultam experiente din viata lui Wendy Tomin..e un timp minunat si aa da, e doar pentru fete!!!  Noi fetele, ne intalnim sa vorbim deschis despre ce ne doare pe noi, despre cat de enervanti pot fii baietii si primim cu inimi deschise ce are Wendy sa ne impartaseasca..experiente din care avem de invatat..si, desi de cele mai multe ori, oamenii nu invata din greselile altora, ci le place sa isi comita propriile greseli, avem ocazia sa auzim cu toata sinceritatea si deschiderea, experiente placute si mai putin placute..

    O alta activitate foarte, foarte tare este intalnirea de marti seara aka grup de casa. De obicei ne intalnim la cineva acasa, si vorbim. Despre orice avem pe suflet. Suntem acolo unii pentru altii, ne rugam unii pentru altii, ne ascultam unii pe altii si facem tot ce putem ca sa ne ajutam unii pe altii. Toamna asta am reinceput in forta intalnirile de marti, si subiectul de acum este:”despre cele doua creiere” adicaaaaaaa, invatam si discutam despre cum doua creiere ATAT de diferite[cel masculin si cel feminin] pot totusi sa se inteleaga si sa convietuiasca in pace..e un subiect mega interesant si e foarte foarte amuzant..de exemplu, stiati ca barbatii pot..wait-for-it…sa se gandeasca la NIMIC!!??? Sa fie pur si simplu liniste in creierele lor…sau, stiati ca femeile pot face o gramadaaa de lucruri in acelasi timp, acordand atentie fiecaruia in parte? E fascinant cum suntem ATAT de diferiti..si totusi ne atragem..hahaa

       Da..unitate in diversitate..suntem atat de diferiti si totusi incercam sa ne acceptam si sa ne iubim unii pe altii…familia asta despre care va vorbeam la inceput..nu e o familie inchisa..suntem tot timpul gata sa “adoptam” si alti membrii..suntem deschisi si iubareti [J]  dar mai ales, suntem transparenti..nu ne ascundem..what you see is what you get.   

                                                                            Sau, cel putin, asta e parerea mea.

                                                                                                                                  Cristina Radoi :)

      

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Happy New Year!!!!

 2011 has been a great year for Kairos. We have inducted 17 new members, baptised 7 people in water and our new Sunday morning service now has around 30 regular attendees…….but these are just numbers. What really blesses us is not the numbers but the individual people that each of these numbers represent. It’s not the fact that we baptised 7 people that made 2011 great, it’s that we helped Mitza, Voislava, Ovidio, Sabina, Simon, Alex and sister Victoria grow in their relationship with God and find the courage to make a public commitment to Him.

Life is a journey and we all need travelling companions: people who will support us and encourage us to overcome the obstacles we encounter along the way; people who believe in us; people who are strong when we are weak; people to laugh with; people to cry with, people to talk to. Have you ever noticed how even the best moments in life are sadly lacking if you have no-one to share them with. We all need travelling companions and I believe that’s what God intended the church to be. A family of people walking together, living life together, encouraging one another, helping one another because we all need help. And not only do we all need help, we all need the opportunity to offer help to others too. If we focus all our attention on our own sufferings or even on our own happiness we will never find the joy we truly seek. It is only when we look around, when we seek the happiness of others, when we smile for someone else’s sake that we find any kind of true fulfilment. Church is a wonderful place to receive love and an even better place to give it.

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Happy Christmas Kairos!

It's Christmas time and everyone at Kairos is looking forward to celebrating together!

Over the last few weeks we have been collecting money and clothes for our annual Christmas Food Box Project. We cannot help everyone in need in Timisoara but we hope to help a few families celebrate this Christmas by providing a box of food and a bag of clothes. This year we were especially blessed to collect enough money and clothes to provide for ten families all from within the Kairos family. As a church it is our desire to have a culture of generosity and love for those in need that goes beyond sympathy and becomes sacrifice and action. The Bible teaches us to look after those in our world who have physical needs so that his love and grace can be seen in us. We may not have much but God honours those who give cheerfully from the little they have.

Last week we were privileged to deliver the boxes to the families in time for them to make their Christmas preparations. Our experiences last year taught us that many of the families we were delivering to would also have needy neighbours so this year we came prepared with little gift bags for the kids which were a big success.

Christmas is such a happy time for the church and Kairos is looking forward to celebrating the birth of Jesus together as a family. We will be singing Christmas carols for our friends and neighbours on Christmas Eve and then, after a day of sleeping, eating and spending time with our families we will meet together at 6pm on Christmas day for a time of worship and thanks to God. A celebration is only really a celebration when you have friends and family to celebrate with so come and join us for some festive fun this Christmas.

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"I want to be like Jesus...."

  

For the last six weeks we, at Kairos, have been embarking on a series of teachings entitled “I want to be like Jesus.....”. Wanting to be like Jesus is something Christians have been singing and talking about for centuries now. How many times have we prayed “Jesus forgive me for being me, make me more like you”. It seems like a good prayer, very spiritual and holy sounding but we need to know what we mean by it if we actually want to see the answer to this prayer in our lives. What is it about Jesus that we want to be more like? Do we want to be more Jewish? Be a better storyteller? Walk around Palestine more?

When you've been around Christian teachings for a long time certain concepts become so familiar they become meaningless. They lose their impact and we begin to take them for granted. "Of course God became fully human and lived on the earth for 33 years at some random time in history! Why not?" How is it that we are not completely bowled over by the fact that God was once a baby!! A baby!! With nappies and tears and giggles and feeding in the middle of the night! It's astounding! It's revolutionary! Sometimes I think the problem with the Christian message is that we've heard it too many times! We first hear the story of baby Jesus when we are nothing but babies ourselves and so it becomes part of life, the Christmas Story. Whether we believe it or not we rarely stop to think about the craziness of such a story, the meaning behind it. We don't question what it says about God that He should act in this way, or ask how this affects our perception of Him.

And so we embrace the concept of being like Jesus. “Of course I want to be like Jesus...... why wouldn't I...... he was a good guy right?”. And we pray “Lord make me more like you”! But the thing is God has already done all the "making" He's ever going to when it come to us. He formed us in the womb, we are made in His image...... the rest is up to us! He will help us by his Spirit to be all that we can be if we ask Him, but we're the ones who get to decide what kind of person we will be, He will not force us. We choose whether we will be loving and kind and generous or self-centred and fearful; do we want His nature to be our nature? Ok so this choice never turns out to be as straightforward as it sounds but if we truly want to follow God, to be more like Jesus, we have to know what he was like and seek to be like that in our own lives. We have to realise who we are, who he is, and decide to make changes. Yes, God will help us as we strive to develop certain aspects of our character, but we have to know what we are aiming towards if we are going to do our part. It's meaningless to simply ask God to make us more like Him without thinking about what He is actually like, and truly comprehending what it is about Him that we want to see more of in our own lives.

It's been an interesting journey so far. In fact, what's been so special about this series is that each week we have heard from a different speaker sharing their own personal perspective on what it is about Jesus that inspires them to want to be more like Him. We are all different, God made us that way, and He's not interested in transforming us all into Jesus drones. He wants each of us to discover Him for ourselves. To see in Jesus something that inspires us to be the very best version of ourselves that we can be, and, in seeking His help to become more like Him, bringing more of His Kingdom to earth.

So...... what is it? What is it about Jesus that inspires you? If there was one way in which you personally could be more like Him what would it be? Think about it. And if you can't come up with an answer, read the gospels again, take a fresh look at who Jesus was. And if you still can't come up with an answer then join us at Kairos on Sunday mornings at 10am and find out what's so special about this Jesus character that makes everyone want to be like Him so much :-)!

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La Multi Ani Kairos

On Sunday Kairos celebrated it's first birthday!! Congratulations to us!!! And much Thankfulness and Praise to God!!!

The first year has been exciting and fun and scary and challenging and tiring and exhilarating. I guess you could say it's been a bit of a roller-coaster. New projects (even Kingdom projects) are never plain sailing. The journey is never smooth and flat.

Thank God!!!

Because smooth and flat, however appealing it might seem when your struggling up a hill, is, quite frankly, boring. It's dull. It's easy and predictable, but it's dull. Roller-coasters however....... now your talking!

There is nothing dull about being on a roller-coaster: it's thrilling, exhilarating and scary; it makes you want to scream and demand to get off; to curse the person who persuaded you to get on for their terrible advice; to squeeze the hand of the poor soul sitting next to you so tight your not sure they'll want to be your friend any more; it might even make you feel a little ill........ but despite all this you cannot deny that it's just plain fun!!

I love roller-coaster's. I love to stand in the queue whipping myself into a frenzy watching the drops and loops, I love to feel the trembly panicky feeling you get as you strap yourself in, I love to embrace the fear as we climb the first ascent and then scream at the top of my lungs as we plunge down the other side. I love it, because on a roller-coaster I'm never really scared. It may seem to my senses like I am risking my life but in my head I know I am safe. I am strapped to my seat in a train that is fastened securely to the tracks. We are whizzing and whirling but I am safe and secure.

The first year of Kairos has been like a roller-coaster. With highs and lows; successes and disappointments; thrills and spills. But overall it has been overwhelmingly fun.......because despite our fears and apprehensions deep down we know that we are safe and secure. Strapped to our seats on a train held by the one who persuaded us to get on this ride in the first place, following the tracks that He has laid out for us, squeezing the hands of those journeying alongside us. I am so grateful to God for all He has done through Kairos this year and I am even more grateful for the opportunity to ride this roller-coaster with such a great bunch of people. Now we're looking forward to year number 2 – please keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times – here we go... Happy Birthday Kairos!!!! 

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The start of a new chapter...

Sunday the 18^th of September marked the beginning of a new chapter for Kairos. Since our launch on the 10^th of October 2010 we have been meeting on a Saturday evening; providing an exciting alternative to the usual Saturday night shenanigans. Last weekend was our very first Sunday morning church service. It is a new chapter in our story. Another milestone on our journey. Another benchmark in our life as a church.

Life is full of significant moments. Some more obvious than others. Sometimes if we want to develop and grow we have to be prepared to take risks and make changes. It might mean stepping out of our comfort zones and maybe saying farewell to some really good routines and habits. Change doesn't mean the old was bad it's just part of the journey.

My computer has our photo library as the screensaver so everytime we leave it alone for a while all sorts of random pictures from times past come flashing up before us. Happy pictures. Memories of good times from the past. Sometimes I feel a little pang of regret for that moment captured on film. It was a wonderful moment, but its gone, never to be experienced again. I can't have it back. Life is a collection of moments- no matter how good the moment we had or even the moment we have, it won't last forever. But all is not lost....we have thousands of new moments ahead of us. The challenge is to enjoy each moment while we are in it; to embrace changes with joy and expectation- grateful for the new avenues of pleasure the future will bring us.

Kairos is looking forward to this new chapter. We believe we are on the brink of something exciting. Our church is growing and developing. Individuals are being stretched and challenged and boldly taking opportunities to serve God in a new way. We have had lots of happy moments worshipping and fellowshipping together on a Saturday night....... and we have many happy Sunday morning moments ahead of us!

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