2020 04 09 Chili with Chris Use Your Creativity to Encourage Others

The speaker is having quinoa chili and encourages listeners to use their creativity to bless others during this time. They mention Christian artists using live streams to cheer people up, and share their experience delivering Easter care packages with necessary precautions. They highlight the importance of adapting and using technology to bless others. They mention the different gifts people have, such as administrative and technological skills, and encourage finding creative ways to encourage and bless others while following health advice. Good evening and welcome to what's quite too late in the day to be coffee with with Chris. So this is this is chili with Chris right now. I have some lovely quinoa chili that Hannah made and shared some with me and so that's what I have right now. What is my encouragement for you today is to use your creativity, your God-given creativity to bless others during this time. You know I'm so encouraged by seeing so many Christian artists and just artists in general honestly using their musical gifts to either you know just cheer people up or bring people closer to the Lord in this time through many live streams and that kind of thing. Today I had the wonderful pleasure of going with Pastor Sue to deliver Easter care packages to some of our kids in our church and we took all the necessary hand-cleaning precautions and everything that goes with that so not to worry on that but you know I was struck with Pastor Sue's wonderful idea for these things and you know she was inspired by some other churches are doing some kind of form of this but she adapted it to suit our needs in our current situation you know and again like these musicians like people like myself like Pastor Ralph like Pastor Sue who are now using this technology to bless you guys with some encouragement. You know somebody told me not too long ago that from from another church I was helping them out figure out how they could do some some live stream or some video kind of stuff for their church and their church groups and they thanked me saying you know I don't know how to do any of this stuff you know so it's like like for such a time as this Chris God has given you a creative gifting to be able to bless others with you know I think of our church secretary Helen who's got these amazing administrative giftings and some technology giftings that we've been able to incorporate just make sure that we have church online in a functional practical way for everyone and so we are blessed by each and every person Pastor Ralph and his preaching and that is a gift that still works even in this technological time but each and every one of you has things that God has gifted you with things that you can do and whether that's phoning up a friend and and talking with them you know not everybody likes to talk to people on the phone that can be scary for a lot of people and that might be something that that you love to do and that's a way that you can blast creatively during this time so that's just my encouragement very short little thought but you know if you're not sure what to do ask the Lord ask around and you know pray about it and maybe post up somewhere saying like hey I'm looking for creative ideas of how I can encourage and bless people during this time and then just go for it do something that's going to be taking the appropriate health advice into consideration but a creative way to bless people during this time so anyways I hope that's an encouragement to you I'm going to enjoy my chili I hope you enjoy your evening God bless