The Church
Posted 03-01-2009 at 10:12 AM by TexasT
Every now and then I watch the sermon from my home church in New Orleans on the internet on Sundays because I have not been able to find a church that I love as much as this one. Today, the pastor made a most excellent point. I touched on this earlier this week in the accountability poll thread, but he said "The Church is not being the salt in the community like it should be." He said the world is always going to be the world, and has always been the world. The world is doing what the world is supposed to do. By that he means people are always going to murder, rape, steal, etc. That's no surprise. People are doing what they've always done. But the church needs to make a bigger impact in the community. It needs to be the light in the dark, the salt in a low sodium society. His points basically said that we should examine ourselves to make sure we are capable of making an impact in the community. How can you be the light if you're serving alcohol to an alcoholic out of your refrigerator? How can you be the light if you're taking the drug addict to the dope house? Etc, etc. The points of the sermon are as follows:
1. Examine your relationship with God
a. Examine your heart
b. Makes sure your lifestyle is consistent with what you do the rest of the week.
2. Examine your relationship with the church
a. Why do you go to church? Do you want to make a difference? Use your God-given talents.
3. Examine your relationship with the world.
a. Are you in Church on Sunday and in the world the rest of the week? Are you straddling the fence? Are you double minded?
This sermon taken from 2 Corinthians 13: 3-6
1. Examine your relationship with God
a. Examine your heart
b. Makes sure your lifestyle is consistent with what you do the rest of the week.
2. Examine your relationship with the church
a. Why do you go to church? Do you want to make a difference? Use your God-given talents.
3. Examine your relationship with the world.
a. Are you in Church on Sunday and in the world the rest of the week? Are you straddling the fence? Are you double minded?
This sermon taken from 2 Corinthians 13: 3-6
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Thank you Texas T for careing and sending this to me.
I agree with it and if we are liveing in the last days to the end, we as Christians do need to be a brighter light to the world.
Ready to share the gospel of Christ...It's our calling to do that.
Sadly many of us because of the cares of the world fail to be witness'es includeing me.
The sermon sounds to be right on the mark so please continue to watch the program on your computer.
Lastly as Christians or professing Christians we fail to continualy read our Bibles and I am guilty of that to.
Thats how we really grow in Christ as well as attending Churches like this one.
Take care girl and Thanks for the PM...God Bless you...MikePosted 03-01-2009 at 10:50 AM by ArkansasHunter
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I am so glad to see there are Pastors willing to speak the truth and christians willing to listen and be transformed by the renewing of their minds.
work in progress-your brother in Christ Jesus-Dale FrantzPosted 05-02-2009 at 10:50 PM by frenchy 
- Thank you for that - it does my heart good to hear of such faith. We must be a light in the world - not conformed to it.
God bless. LSPPosted 06-03-2009 at 09:55 PM by Lonestar Parson -
Thanks for posting this. It was a real blessing to read.Posted 09-04-2009 at 05:30 PM by charles73 -
The Church
TexasTs' The Church posted by AH has and will continue to be a blessing, Gods' Word goes out with power and it is exciting to be used by God! To make our church [imperfect people] usable we have taken some scripture as our
1 The Great Commandment:
Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, Soul, and mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your nieghbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
[Matthew 22:36-40]
2 The Great Commission:
Jesus said, "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
[Matthew 28:19-20]
Community Baptist Church Purpose Statement:
"Honoring God by making more disciples for Jesus Christ...one life at a time."
Our comfy little Church of about 100 is now 600 commited believers from ALL walks of life! What an exciting season! We live,love,sing,shoot,hunt,help,feed,read,pray,hike ,camp,eat,study,Praise God!!,make love with our spouses',canoe,What a Loving God!!,go to the beach,send eager volunteer's to near and far,collect guns,go on G&G and have a blast!,make new friends! What an Abundant life! Sorry for getting alittle nuts but it ain't dull being in JESUS!!
frenchy
Dale
Posted 09-06-2009 at 02:53 AM by frenchy
