WHAT?

As you look around the community, what moves you?
Is it the community that is separated from God by their own rebellion to his will? Is it the amazing growth in the attitudes that result in aggression and violence? Is it humanity suffering in sickness, and deformity? Is it the emotionally scared, who have abandoned hope and abuse their bodies by any number of means? Or is it the seemingly inability of the people of God to meet needs that are presented in community?

An amazing thing is that often the people of God are unable to cope with the support of their brothers and sisters in the church. We are afraid to be vulnerable and confess our needs and errors. We tend to live our lives under our own authority, without appropriating the promises in God’s Word. We see the public prayer altar as a place of life failure, rather than a place of refreshment in spirit, soul, and body.

How can we reach out to those alienated from God, if we do not know what we have?



James 5:13-16
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (KJV)

Your CHOICE!

I have heard utterances from some who call themselves the people of God that a sermon should only be 6 minutes long. From these people the celebration of the Word of God seems to have little relevance.

How then would they cope with the Apostle Paul, who spoke all through the night to sun-up? How would they cope with William Booth, who spoke with such passion and fire, for an hour or more? In their thinking Paul, and William Booth, would have been a wasting their efforts! However history would hold the Champions of God with a much different view, and esteem.

It would seem that the problem is not so much with the speaker, but the hearer. On the surface it is simply a rejection of the speaker. With further analytical discernment, the evidence is a total rejection of the Word of God. Who then, in their right mind would openly go out in opposition to not only the Word of God, but also God himself, and his servants?


Joshua 24:14-15
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. [15] And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (KJV)