“It is a sin to be good if God has called us to be Great.†—Thom Rainer, Breakout Churches The first sentence in Thom Rainer’s Breakout Churches smacked me. Being good—and perhaps better than many—is certainly no justification for falling short of being great. Greatness is often sacrificed on the altar of goodness. After all, we are probably better off than some. By greatness I simply mean reaching our fullest potential, and this looks [ continue reading ]
...Working with Volunteers – Part 1 Volunteers Are Our Job. As a church leader you need volunteers to accomplish the work you have been called to do. Without them the work will not get done. (Can you imagine the choir without the volunteers?) Volunteers are the driving force behind the work of the church. When we involve others, better ideas are generated and more work gets done. But volunteers are more than agents who [ continue reading ]
...“They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign. They marry like everyone else, and have children, but they do not expose their offspring. They share their food but not their wives. They are in the flesh, but they do not live according to the flesh. They live on earth, but [ continue reading ]
...Evangelism Through Prophecy We live in a day that individuals realize that something is different and most individuals believe the world will end, although they believe it will not happen during their lifetime. Popular secular belief is that it will be in the future during another generation. It is the freight train barreling down the track, but if I ignore it, it want hit me, syndrome. But, there is great interest in all of the [ continue reading ]
...Four Tragedies Every Sinner Will Face. Living Without the Gospel If our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost.- 2 Corinthians 4:3 The tragedy of living life without the benefits and advantages of the gospel. Dying Without the Gospel The death of a saint is precious in the eyes of the Lord. Dying without Christ to leave this world without eternal hope Dying without Christ is, in one sense – “to [ continue reading ]
...One of the most prolific statements written in the word of God is found in the book of Matthew chapter 22. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law [ continue reading ]
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