Happy Saturday Friends!
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday… hope to see you at Destiny Family Center- 10am!
I just watched a video on Jonathan Woodard’s blogsite… and thought to share it with you guys! When I first experienced this video about six months ago, I remember thinking to myself, “How much of what I am doing every day is outdated and unproductive?”
The Bible is NEVER outdated… prayer is NEVER outdated… building the church is NEVER outdated… reaching unbelievers with salvation is NEVER outdated… but HOW we are going about our mission is always being challenged with our EVERY CHANGING SOCIETY!
Here… watch the video and I will be back with a few closing thoughts.
Riveting aye? I think so! It makes me wonder how much of my time each and every day is wasted attempting todays and tomorrows mission with yesterdays methods.
Sadly, our world is filled with so many protesters of change. There is a STRONG undercurrent of YESTERDAY always ripping the trailblazers down.
Jesus explained it like this in Luke 5, “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.“
If you want to make a BIG difference in tomorrows world… you’re going to have to stay clear of small minded people and paradigms. Yes, hold on to sound doctrine… never forsake the timeless message about Christ… hold tightly to the routines of prayer, devotion, and fellowship that keep you drawn NEAR to God! Just get away from anything that backs you into a corner… things that suppress creativity and consume your days in meaningless activities.
As Christians, we should have great concern over the spiritual state of todays world. We should SPEND much more of our time apart from the political bickering that keeps us FRUITLESS. We should be walking by FAITH and LIVING by FAITH… INNOVATING the quantum leap concepts that will lead to the modern evangelization of this empty society.
Our message is FAR TOO AMAZING to be so UNAPPEALING in this world of broken people!
I believe that God has a BEAUTIFUL PLAN for this generation! And I’m determined to keep pressing into it, not swayed in the least by the dangerous undercurrents of yesterday.
We are trailblazers my dear bloggers! Stay fresh… run free and stay young… reach in to the love and mercy of God that so easily snaps the choke chains of fear and judgment… and don’t get distracted for more than a week or two. We are the church of tomorrow… and no matter how things look today… we can still emerge as the FINEST CHURCH TO EVER GRACE THIS EARTH!
I pray that todays blog acts as a catalyst of change in your amazing lives! I pray that my dear bloggers will clearly identify those distractions that keep them going backwards… and they choose to reclaim their destinies in Christ! Have a tremendous Easter everyone!! Love you all!
Hey Pastor,
This blog today is a message all in itself! A very good one. Thank you.
My first thought reminds me of an illustration our previous Pastor did which was AWESOME and you may have to ask Bo all the details so I don't leave anything out or better yet, ask Pastor Don but it was amazing!
It was all about what you are expressing here, about change and people not embracing the change but the message does not change just the methods to how we deliver the message.
He used props and started with I think a well and pump that really worked upfront with water. How in the old days people had to get their water. The source is the water of course.
The source does not change only the methods to how we can get the water changes over time.
He ended with a modern sink like a bathroom vanity and YES with RUNNING WATER (we had some pretty good talented men there at Ridgeview) that made all that work for him. He may have done it himself too with them, I don't know but together they got it is all I know. It was awesome.
So the point is clear but why would we today have buckets and go to a stream to get our water when we have the opportunity and convenience to have clean running water right in our home?
We wouldn't. Same water, same source, different method of obtaining that source. Thats all.
Praise God!!!! You are right we must stick to sound doctrine, but change is going to happen whether we participate in it or not!!! We should be the ones to make the change!!!! I pray today that we step outside of the past and pray for God to reveal to us a new way to share HIM.
Have a super day,
Nuala
PS our school district uses this video to motivate us as teachers.