Light Of The World – Here I Am To Worship
1. Here I Am To Worship*JESUSLight of the world,You stepped down into darkness.Opened my eyes,let me see.Beauty that made this heart adore youHope of a life spent with youAnd here I am to worship,here I am to bow down,here I am to say that you're my GodYou're altogether lovely,altogether worthy,altogether wonderful to me.King of all days,oh, so highly exalted.Glorious in heaven above.Humbly you cameto the earth you createdAll for love's sake became poor.And here I am to worshipHere I am to bow downHere I am to say that you're my GodYou're altogether lovely.altogether worthy,altogether wonderful to me.I'll never know how…
Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is a 'festival of lights' celebrated especially by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. This festival is spread over three to four days and is one of the most anticipated times of celebration. Homes are lit with hundreds of deeya (clay oil lamps) during the season, to signify victory of good over evil. The day of Diwali is the highlight of this celebratory mood. Families get together to start the day with oil baths, then exchange gifts and sweets, followed by the most exciting event of the year - family fire works. Fireworks begin before the crack of dawn and go well into the day. No amount of description is sufficient to capture all the excitement and celebrations associated with the Diwali festival. You have to be there to experience it. 
Right from my student days, by God's grace, I have been involved in the ministry. I learnt the basic lessons about evangelism and those days there was a lot of emphasis on personal evangelism and evangelism through small group Bible studies, retreats and evangelistic camps. I learned over the years the art of studying the Bible and preaching the Word as well as the Gospel. I learned by observing others and over the years the Lord showed me clearly that He has gifted me in the areas of evangelism, preaching the Word, knowledge, and leadership and has been giving me opportunities to exercise these gifts in different contexts and different ways. I have also had the joy of seeing a lot of results in universities, colleges and among professionals - engineers, doctors, teachers, judicial and legal people, government officials, etc.
Do not let yourself be deceived by Dangerous Christianity. Arise, what we need today is a Biblical Christianity! Biblical Christianity offers God’s love with holiness, blessings with obedience, forgiveness with repentance, heavenly joy with godly sorrow, crown with cross, peace with righteousness and grace with godliness. It teaches faith in Jesus with fear of God, immersion of water along with diversion from sin, believing in Christ with transformation of life and following Christ by dying to self. It presents the narrow way Jesus taught. It teaches to fight a good fight of faith, take up one’s cross, deny self, endure suffering, renounce the world, hunger for righteousness, make every effort to live at peace with others, witness Christ to the lost and share generously with the poor and needy. 
In the progressive church, leadership means having to successfully deal with many different kinds of leaders in our church in order to fulfill our vision. Truly, learning how to release different kinds of people is the key to releasing your vision. Noah is symbolically a great model for this kind of leadership because he had to navigate a ship that had animals together as diverse as a lion and a sheep. Today’s progressive apostolic leader must learn how to shepherd emerging political, financial, and church leadership all in one ship.