State of the Church Address: Embracing Our Callings

“The State of the Church is Good! Not perfect but good… Last year was a good year both spiritually and physically…

People have felt accepted, and loved, and they have experienced the presence of God within our services…

I’m not saying we’re perfect in these area’s we’ve also missed it along the way from time to time… but on the whole we as the body of Christ have done well expressing God’s love… Thank you for that, thank you for honoring God in this way…

This new year I want our focus to simply be: Embracing Our Callings…

• We need to think of our callings in terms of Who before what… Jesus is the Who and the what is our calling…

• When we get the Who right the what will follow naturally flowing from the Who…

• If we get it out of order we rely on our own strengths, the call takes the dominant role over God… The One in whom we are to serve can very easily become subordinate to our calling and we mess up the whole thing…

Jesus was first committed to the Father and then the cross and in that order… Jesus was first committed to the Father, and then His love for us and in that order… It was only in that initial commitment that He was empowered to embrace the cross and to love us as the Father desired He would…

There is absolutely no substitute so far as God is concerned for God’s work done God’s way!

In saying these things… please hear me clearly, I don’t want anyone to feel condemned, but challenged… I have to examine my own heart in my callings, the moment they become about me or usurp my communion with God I’m missing it…

I’m continually in the process of evaluating this heart, and I’m not always hitting the mark… so I repent, and seek to again make Him Lord of my whole life… This doesn’t mean I give up His calling in me, only that I place it under God’s lordship, and seek to keep it there…

I want us to follow the example of Jesus and in our lives do the will of the Father… God has a calling for each of us… God’s will is found in calling, we just have to keep it in its proper place…

We’re only given one life to steward, so what is God calling us to do…

In order for our church as a collective to embrace its calling within our community, we as individuals have to embrace our callings… You, Me, We are the church!!

“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand…”

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