March update from the Corrigans

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Hello family and friends, 

We are doing well!  We continue to keep a flame of continual adoration and intercession burning before the Lord here in K.C.  You know we live in a society that measures success mostly by outward accomplishment that can be tangibly measured.  In the church it seems as though people are more apt to give to a missionary that is working in a third world country with a humanitarian justice emphasis because it can be easier to measure the success of that particular outreach to determine if its "good soil" to sow into.  So how can you cast vision to the evangelical western church to keep giving to foreign missions but to also give to fund full time prayer?  Well the fact that this question even exists shows us that the need of suffering humans weighs on us far more than the lack of adoring praise that Jesus is receiving from the nations.  We mostly think of full time prayer as a good season of preparation unto some greater mission or as a way to change the spiritual climate over areas which will help people.  Can you see that we think of prayer mostly as man centered rather than God centered?   However, prayer & worship is an end in of itself.... and not just one end... its is the chief end of all things.... that Christ would be be glorified by all of created order incessantly and continuously all the time forever.  Did you know that theologically that greatest crisis in the earth, the greatest injustice now and all throughout history is that Jesus is not being worshipped and adored by all but instead He is being mocked among the nations.  for example movies we watch use His precious name as a cuss word!!!?!?!?  Jesus not being worshipped but rather being mocked is an infinitely greater injustice than all the suffering of Humanity combined! The reason that we don't feel this way is not a mystery...... its because His glory is not comprehended and we dont rightly esteemed Him. Our church culture is far more man centered than God centered. You know no angel ever accused the seraphim for only worshipping and not going to minister to the masses to dying people.  Well, some say.... seraphim were created to worship and man was created for "_____"  Ummm, actually man was created to worship... the garden of Eden was a worship sanctuary not an agricultural center.  Don't misunderstand me we must do justice mission in the nations but the disparity of our situation is that continual worship to Jesus isn't even on the top 10 priorities of most churches but rather is seen as a waste of time!!!?!?!? What, how could this be?  We may not all be called to worship Jesus as our occupation now,  but all of our deepest longings should burn with jealous zeal that Jesus be worshipped continually in every place on the planet.  This is not a side issue of the christian faith it is central to being a christian. This desire is the simple outworking of the 1st and greatest commandement to love God will all our heart, soul, mind and strength.  You know we may not all be called to worship Jesus as our main occupation now, but in just the blink of an eye when we pass from this age to the next every single believer will be forever be "employed" as a kingdom of priests with our main "job" being restored to that of worshipping the beauty and Glory of Jesus as our main reason for existence!  Beloved the end of making disciples is making worshippers; the end of the great commission is a kingdom of priests.  The end of all things is the Glory of God expressed by lovesick worshippers who cannot help but praise Him yet again.  Let everything that has breath praise Him!  We are jealous more than anything that the name is Jesus be exalted and made much of in the earth.  So to conclude I return to my original thought..... so in light of this how can we define success?  in ministry how can we define success? when giving into mission what is a wise use of our finances?  Beloved, if our mission isn't really producing individuals who give off the fragrant incense of loving adoration to Jesus then can we really measure it as a success?  As full time intercessory missionaries our occupation is to try to give Jesus as much genuine incense as possible and that cannot be measured by the eyes of men, only God can measure true incense.  

Thanks so much for all your prayer and financial partnership, it is helping Jesus fame spread in the nations.  Blessings to you all.  Attached is our March Newsletter

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