The VISION & VALUES of Faith Fellowship

A CHURH WITH GREAT VISION

INTRO:

What is a great church? Some like a big church, some a small church. Some like a country church, some a city church…I’ve been in both. I’m glad we have all types around here and all are welcome!

You might be in a country church if:

The Call to Worship is ,"Y’all come on in!"

The Preacher says, "I’d like to ask Bubba to pray for the

offering" - and five guys stand up.

Opening day of deer hunting season is recognized as an

official church holiday.

A singing group is known as "The O.K. Chorale."

Baptism is referred to as "branding."

There is a special fund-raiser for a new septic tank.

Finding and returning lost sheep is not just a parable.  

People wonder when Jesus fed the 5,000 whether the two

fish were bass or catfish. 

                                          

Sherlock Holmes and Watson were camping one night. In the middle of the night Sherlock Holmes awoke and looked up at the stars. He asked, "Watson, what do you see". Woken from his sleep Watson looked up and said "stars". Yes, but what do these stars tell you. Watson said "Cosmologically they tell me that we are part of a large universe – that we are one of billions and billions of planets. Theologically they tell me that we have a great God who made all of it. Meteorologically they tell me that the sky is clear and we will have good weather tomorrow. Temporally they tell me that it is the middle of the night and we should be sleeping! Sherlock, what do they tell you." "Well," he replied, "they tell me that someone has stolen our tent".     

When it comes to the direction of the church is it that you see?

The problem we often face is that we have no clear direction of where we are going. We lack a defined destination. We lack vision.The Bible says, Where there is no vision , the people perish. Proverbs 29:18

If you ever needed a blueprint for a declaration of faith it is Heb 11:7-10 … By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Let me ask you , WHAT IS YOUR VISION? As you think back and look at your own life and the direction of this church what do you see? In terms of vision there are 3 different types of churches :

I . THE REARVIEW MIRROR CHURCH

The undertaking church is always looking backwards. The basic mentality is that people talk about are the “good old days”.

They miss what is happening today because they are always looking back to yesterday. Decisions in this kind of church are based on what that generation grew up with in the past and what they feel comfortable with.

Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

The children of Israel missed what God was doing. God was doing a new thing but they did not understand it. They saw the captivity as an end and not a beginning. They did not see that through the captivity God was setting the stage for Jesus

Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision but poor vision limits the Lords work! Helen Keller was asked once “What would be worse than being born blind?” to which she replied “Having sight without a vision.”

The eagle and the vulture fly in our sky. The vulture see is nothing but rotting meat, because that is what they look for. They thrive on that diet. But eagles soar high and see the beauty of the earth. The vultures live on what was. They live on the past. They fill themselves with what is dead and gone. But eagles live on what is. They seek new life. Each bird finds what it is looking for. What kind of bird are you?

While you can learn from the past, you can’t live there. Too many churches today are spending their time and resources lamenting the past when they should be adapting to the future.

Amazing Grace was a new song at one time. I am sure some back in the day thought, “Why do we have to sing these new contemporary praise songs?

Last time I checked out in the parking lot, I did not see any Studabakers.

Honor the past, learn from the past but use current methods to reach others for Christ.

A person or church that tries to walk looking backward is bound to fall

II. THE MAINTENCE MODE CHURCH –LOOKING AT

ONLY THE PRESENT:

The care-taking church is always concerned with pressing issues of th present.focus is on immediate issues.

It seems to always be in maintenance mode, just trying to keep it’s head above the water. Decisions in this kind of church are based on immediate assets.

The number one questions is always “do we have the money now to support this”?

Matt 15:32 33 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." 33 His disciples answered, "Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"

A care-taking church is realistic and comfortable. As long as the services are good and the needs are reasonably met and the people are reasonably happy then all is reasonably well. The problem is that this is walking by sight and not fait

Jesus wants to feed the crowd that have been following and we don’t see any bread in the wilderness. But that same Jesus that fed the five thousand cares about the souls of Okeechobee.

Theodore Roosevelt said “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause”.

A pastor thought God gave Him an idea, and he presented it in the monthly Leadership meeting. . After sharing his ideas to the elders the elders voted aganst the pastors proposed ideas 12-1. One elder looked at the pastor and said, “Well pastor, it’s 12 votes to 1. Looks like you’ve been out voted. Looks like time is up for the evening, so will you please close in prayer.”

The pastor, not wanting to give up yet on what he felt God was leading him to do then lead in prayer. As he prayed, he lifted his hands up to heaven and prayed, “Lord - I know my brothers here do not have the same vision you have given me. Please help them to see that this is not MY vision, but your vision!”At that exact moment, a lightning bolt with a loud clap of thunder burst in through the window in the meeting room, striking the table, splitting it in two and knocking all the elders to the floor. As the dust cleared, the pastor looked at the head elder and said - so, what do you think about that?

The one elder, dusting himself off, sighed and said, “Well, I guess that’s 12 votes to 2,

III. THE VISIONARY CHURCH –LOOKS TO THE FUTURE:

The VISIONARY CHUCH meets the needs of the present and is always looking forward. This church believes that the best is yet to come.

The Visionary Church invest all they have today so that they can be all that God wants them to be tomorrow.

The VISIONARY CHURCH trains men today to be leaders tomorrow.

The VISIONARY CHURCH seeks to be relevant today and works on methods that meet the needs of members in the future

THE VISIONARY CHURCH realizes that if it is not failing at times. then it is failing because it is not trying.. If we want to as a church that moves forward with vision then we must accept the fact that there will be times that we may fail along the way.

Jonas Salk attempted 200 unsuccessful vaccines for polio before he came up with one that worked. Somebody asked him one time, "How did it feel to fail 200 times trying to invent a vaccine for polio?" This was his response: "I never failed 200 times at anything in my life. My family taught me never to use that word. I simply discovered 200 ways how not to make a vaccine for polio."

HOW MUCH VISION DO YOU HAVE FOR THE LORD’S WORK?

A blind man’s world is bounded by the limits of his touch and hearing an ignorant man’s world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man’s world by the limits of his vision.

By faith Noah went and build and ark. Think about this. He invested everything he had in

something that seemed completely impossible.

Can you imagine building an Ark Though he could not see or understand it, he based his life on God’s word and was willing to wait 120 years for the promise to be fulfilled. Noah’s vision was based on what he had been told by God.

By faith Abraham left his home Though he was living in a tent he saw the future city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. He believed God and based his life on that vision.

Jesus was a visionary. He entrusted the salvation of the world to 11 weak and frightened men. Through God’s power and vision they changed the world. Instead of looking at past or trusting in the present they saw God’s future church and boldly went forward to make it happen.

A vision without a task is a dream; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

1. A VISION INCLUDES A FAITH TO BELIEVE

5th grade S.S. class was asked to go home and count the stars in the sky as part of their next S.S. lesson. They came back with various numbers. Some said 100, some said 1000, some said a million. Finally the teacher asked a little boy who had said nothing, "How many stars did you count?"He replied, "3". The teacher asked how did you only see 3? He said, "I guess we just have a small backyard."

A church without vision has too small a backyard!

2. VISION INCLUDES A COURAGE TO DO

Vision is the Ability to see what others can’t. --Faith to believe what others will not. --Courage to do what others say can’t be done.

Columbus’ dairy at times seems to be very repetitive. Page after page simply says, "This day we sailed o What a great motto for a Christian.

Anybody can start the race, but they don’t give out the awards until you finish.

Becoming discouragement and not following through Gods work is not due absence of things or

lack of money but the absence of vision.”

3. VISION FIGHTS THROUGH THE OBSTICLES OF FEAR AND LACK OF RESOURCES

Paul Harvey tells the story: One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was eating breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Andover, Ohio, home. Blankenship knew that farther downstream, the ditch emptied into the main culvert. Ray dashed out the door and raced along the ditch, trying to get ahead of the foundering child. Then he hurled himself into the deep, churning water. Blankenship surfaced and was able to grab the child’s arm. They tumbled end over end. Within about three feet of the deep culvert, Ray’s free hand felt something--possibly a rock-- protruding from one bank. He clung desperately, but the tremendous force of the water tried to tear him and the child away. "If I can just hang on until help comes," he thought. He did better than that. By the time fire-department rescuers arrived, Blankenship had pulled the girl to safety. Both were treated for shock. On April 12, 1989, Ray Blankenship was awarded the Coast Guard’s Silver Lifesaving Medal. The award is fitting, for this selfless person was at even greater risk to himself than most people knew. Ray Blankenship can’t swim.

The courage of vision is to say "Lord if that is you, let me come to you walking on the water."

The courage of vision is to say "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

The courage of vision is to say "If God be for us, who can be against us."

The courage of Vision is to say "The trials of this life are not worthy to be compared with the glory of the next life."

The vision To see the unseen you have to:

Ignore what people say

Disregard what the world says

Resist the temptation to be guided by Man’s ability

The word tells us that we walk by faith not by sight.

OUR VISION MUST BE SPIRIT BORN SPIRIT FED

AND SPIRIT LED TO ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING

The Local Mission of Faith Fellowship Church

What is the MISSION of Faith Fellowship Church?

• LOVE GOD - Matt 22:37 Love God with all your heart mind and strength 
• LOVE OTHERS - Matt 22:39  Love your neighbor as yourself
• GO OUT - Matt 28:19-20  Go and Make Disciples

These three things are the MANDATE (Marching Orders) from God and thus for our Local Church

Review the message from Two Weeks ago:

Luke 24: 44-49 - Jesus declares that He is the fulfillment of the law and everything in it and that now the responsibility of the disciples was to go and to share the Gospel and point others to this truth and to do that… He was giving them the Holy Spirit as the source of power to accomplish this mandate.

If this is the message of “The Church”…. how are we to make that a reality as THIS LOCAL CHURCH ?!

What are we supposed to be doing? Why do WE Exist as a Church? Why?

We recognize and accept the call of BEING THE CHURCH God has called… IN THIS PLACE AND AT THIS TIME.

Quote: “Mike Williams (MVNU Professor) We are NOT on a MISSION FROM GOD… We are on a MISSION WITH GOD!”

He also pointed out that to STAY ON THE MISSION WITH GOD… people have to be willing to deny themselves and to DEVOTE themselves to the Mission!

What is OUR Mission as Faith Fellowship Church…

1. To connect people to God.
2. To Be Christlike in our Johnstown/Northridge Communities.
3. LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS and GO OUT.

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n other words…

“To Live By Faith, To Be Known By Love.. and to Be A Voice of Hope”

“Faith Fellowship needs to be about Living Out Our Faith… Being Examples of Christ By Unconditionally Loving Others… and by Offering HOPE Found in a Relationship with Jesus!”

Commitment to a CLEAR, SIMPLE yet COMPELLING MISSION will not run the risk of “pirates” coming into the midst of the Church to Highjack the Church to their own personal mission. People who do this, and it does happen, are guilty of the sin of preference. These are people who make moral absolutes out of their own personal preferences.

If you don't make the MISSION with God clearly defined, then you run the risk of people coming in, getting into leader positions and steering people away from what God has called us to be and do.

Father's Day 2017

Lessons I've Learned About Father's Day From Golf

1. Focus on the Positive
Today I could have chosen to dwell on the shots that I missed, the rain that dampened our round, and the slow play of the foursome in front of us. I could also have chosen to dwell on the accurate shots, the beautiful scenery and the fun that we had both on and off the golf course. Both would have been true reflections of the time we shared. Which would you rather focus on?  

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. – Philippians 4:8

2. Focus on the Present
I would never have made any good shots if I had stressed over past errors or what would happen beyond my current swing. Have you ever missed out on the present by dwelling on the past or future?              

“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” – Matthew 6:34

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.” – Isaiah 43:18

3. Focus on Your Purpose
While I was on that course my purpose was to hit the ball toward the next hole. I only hit the ball well when I focused on the task at hand. My focus didn’t guarantee success, but it made it much more possible. Are you giving all you have to the task at hand right here, right now?

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. - Colossians 3:23  So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing.       

Hopeful Memory

Memorial Day

Hopeful Memory 

(Joshua 4:1-9; 1 Cor. 11:23-26)

In the later years of his life, the great 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered from an increasingly faulty memory. When things would slip his mind, he complained of his “naughty memory,” as he called it. Sometimes Emerson would forget the names of different objects. In order to speak of them, he would refer to them in a round-about way. For instance, when he could not think of the word “plow,” he would call it “the implement that cultivates the soil.” More important was the fact that he could not remember the names of people who were quite familiar to him. At the funeral of his friend, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emerson commented to another person, “That gentleman has a sweet, beautiful soul, but I have entirely forgotten his name.”

The loss of memory is a sad thing. It cuts us off from days gone by. It strips away the treasured residue of past experience. It erases our personal history and leaves us unaccountably blank pages. Not long ago I was visiting in the home of a delightful older woman. Periodically in the course of our conversation she would stop and — after a moment’s silence — would remark, “I’ve forgotten what I was going to say.” After this happened several times she confessed, “It’s so humiliating to have your memory go bad.” Certainly it is unfortunate, inconvenient and at times embarrassing not to remember. Yet without a doubt, for some people the failure of memory is largely unavoidable.

That is not always the case. Sometimes we are forgetful because we neglect that which has gone before us and become inattentive to those who have preceded us. We center all of our attention only on our own time and place. We act as though the present is all that matters and the past is some shabby thing that can be safely cast off and left behind like a worn-out pair of shoes.

Here we are with Memorial Day upon us. On this occasion we are called upon to remember and respect those who have died, those whose days are gone. It is no surprise to us that many people do not reflect upon the past during this holiday any more than they do on any other day. In our age of ever-accelerating change, we don’t tend to look to the past to find our wisdom. We view what “has been” as largely irrelevant to what is now. The ancients are not our models. We place little value in traditions and inherited customs. And so when Memorial Day rolls around, our thoughts do not automatically turn to the past and to the departed. Most people appreciate Memorial Day largely because it is an extra day off work.

My purpose is not to be an advocate for a renewed practice of Memorial Day. This holiday is not expressly religious. It is secular. Nevertheless, it can serve to promote a value that is elevated throughout the Scriptures, that value being the importance of remembrance. You see, a failure of memory is not just something which leads to personal inconvenience or social embarrassment. It is a spiritual danger. A failure of memory in those things which are most significant results in a failure of faith. Forgetfulness erodes the foundation of our relationship with God.

A quick scanning of the biblical documents make apparent the importance that is placed upon remembering. Throughout the scriptures we find references to monuments, memorial feasts, and ritually repeated stories, all of which serve to reinforce the sacred memory of the people of God. In various ways the great saving acts of God were rehearsed and re-presented so that the people would not forget what God had done for their sake.

The Old Testament text, Joshua 4:1-9, stands as one example of this practice. The biblical narrative which leads up to this text tells the story of the Israelites’ long-awaited entry into the promised land. After forty years of wilderness wandering the people finally reached their destination. The swollen Jordan River blocked their way into the land but they did not stop.

When the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant began to place their feet in the river, the water ceased flowing and the people crossed over on dry ground, just as their forebears had when they escaped the Egyptians. 

When they all finished passing over the Jordan, the leader of Israel, Joshua, had a simple monument built to commemorate the wondrous event. This served to remind the people that their progress — indeed, their very existence — was in the hands of the living God. The Passover feast which Moses instituted was to serve a similar purpose; it was to remind the people that it was God and not they themselves who brought about their liberation from slavery in Egypt.

With pounding insistence the call to remember is repeated throughout scripture. Remember that God called your father Abraham in his old age and promised him many children. Remember that you were in bondage in a foreign land and were freed by divine power. Remember that God brought Israel to greatness, though she was weak. Remember the commands of the Lord. The Psalmist summed up the message well when he wrote:

“Remember the wonderful works that God has done God’s great deed and the judgments the Lord utter, O offspring of Abraham God’s servant.” (Psalms 105:5)

Those who forgot the past fell into thanklessness. It is unlikely that we will do any better. If we forget the value of our heritage and the source of our blessings, it will become very easy for us to take for granted all that we have and all that we are. It will be very easy for us to begin believing that we can make our own way without God. With the blindness of pride we will very likely begin trusting in our own wisdom and power rather than relying upon the guidance and might of our Maker. Then in our wrong-headed self-confidence we will lose our way. For this reason it is crucial that we remember.

I suppose that every culture and country has its memorials. The best memorials lift our sights above the mundane affairs of the moment in order to focus our attention upon the highest aspirations and accomplishments of those who have preceded us. When we visit the Lincoln Memorial or Washington Monument, it is natural to begin meditating upon the impressive deeds and high values of these forebears. Visits to such places can help stimulate us to embrace more noble and exalted goals.

But sometimes memorials can serve less honorable purposes. Not only do memorials call attention to the best in the past; they also can be used to cover up the worst. 

An impressive monument can bestow dignity upon a dubious endeavor or questionable person of days gone by. Such memorials do no service to the truth for they hide unflattering facts. At times a memorial itself can be greater than the person it is supposed to honor. For instance, Michelangelo’s sculpture for the tomb of Pope Julius II is a magnificent creation, but the Pope it was to pay tribute to was pretty much a scoundrel. But we don’t want memorials to highlight the dark side of the past, the atrocities and treacheries. We prefer our memorials to comfort and reassure us, rather than warn us or disturb our complacency.

Sometimes dwelling on the past is a means of escaping the problems of the present and the disturbing prospects of the future. Sometimes we are tempted to glorify days gone by. I suppose we all know people who seem to continually talk about how great things used to be. Life was simpler, friendships were closer, motives were more pure, morals were higher and so on. This is the Golden Age syndrome. For some people the Golden Age was the 1920s; for others it was the 1960s. No matter what our favorite period may be, the problem with looking back to a Golden Age is that we distort the past and we come to believe that the best days of life have already gone by. Everything else that follows is anticlimactic. Consequently some people, who are disappointed with the present and distressed over the future, tend to live in the past. Their memories are highly important to them but they do not have hopeful memories.

You see, hopeful memory does not drag us into the past and lock us there. Hopeful memory does not tell us that the best of life has already come and gone. Rather it thrusts us into the future. When the prophets of old called upon God’s people and told them to remember the works that the Lord had done in the past, this was to prepare them for the future. They were not called upon to remember the past for its own sake. The practice was not a self-indulgent diversion. Rather they were to remember the wonders of the past so that their lives would be open to the even greater wonders God would do for them in the future.

The Lord’s Supper is a hopeful memorial. It does not falsely glorify the past. When we partake of the bread and cup we remember the broken body and blood of the Lord. Images of deceit, betrayal and cruelty impose themselves upon us. 

The memorial feast confronts us with the disquieting fact that we humans are all too capable of striking out against true holiness and supreme goodness and treating it as demonic if it does not work out to our advantage. That is not the kind of memory we hold dear. But the Lord’s Supper does more. It reminds us of the sacrificial love of God. It speaks to us of a love that will not let us go but which reaches out to us, despite our evil.

Yet in the Lord’s Supper we see even more than that. We also see the promise of Jesus Christ that He will come again and that we will eat and drink anew with our Lord in the kingdom of God (Mark 14:25). The Lord’s Supper points us not only to the past but toward the promised future as well. The past and the future are made into vital contemporary realities for us by the presence of Christ. The meal is a memorial that reinforces a hopeful memory.

With Memorial Day upon us it is proper to think of the past and of those who have gone from this world. But for those of us who are Christians, this is not exclusively an exercise in looking behind and dwelling upon what has been. For we believe that more wondrous things are yet to come for those people of faith who have already died. We live in light of the resurrection and we believe that death will not be the end.

In 1969, Clarence Jordan died of a heart attack. As some of you know, Jordan was the author of the Cotton Patch Version of the Bible and was the founder of Koinonia Farms, an inter-racial community and innovative ministry in rural Georgia. His work had faced vicious opposition from many of the racists in his area during the 50’s and 60’s. In fact, when Jordan died, the local coroners and undertakers were of little help. Jordan was buried in a plain cedar box on a hillside on his farm. Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, officiated at the funeral. Just after the casket was lowered into the ground and the grave was filled, an unexpected thing happened. Fuller’s two-year-old daughter stepped up to the grave and began to sing the only song the little girl knew.

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday, dear Clarence

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday at a funeral? How strange and yet how truly appropriate. For when a Christian dies, it is a birthday of a sorts because death is not an ending but a new beginning. And so when we think of our dead, let us do so with a hopeful memory for an amazing future still awaits them, and the rest of us as well.

Graduation Sunday!

1 Corinthians 11:27-34

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus!

Today we are Celebrating our High School and College Graduates here at Faith Fellowship!

Taylor Rose - Bluffton College

Matt Schell - Johnstown HS

Max Berry - Northridge HS

Ashley Ferry - Northridge HS

Caitlyn Stump - Johnstown HS

Juli Neil - Johnstown HS

We are really proud and excited of these young people and the PROMISE of a BLESSED future them as they walk through life devoted to and following the steps of their Savior!

Be sure to visit the Faith Fellowship Website and Facebook Page to see pictures of today's Celebration!

Our text today is coming from the Book of 1 Corinthians and it is the section where the Apostle Paul is needing to provide a little instruction and even a little correction... with the habits people had fallen into when they came to "The Lord's Table" to remember the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross.

Jesus made it clear when he told his disciple that they, and everyone else who would follow after... should "commune" together at "The Table" to REMEMBER. 

However, people go to a place where they became very "casual" and they lost the "REVERENCE" for what they were remembering. Reverence is simply a deep love for or a respect for. It meant that when taking Communion... one should focus their thinking on Jesus and REMEMBER with love and thanks that price paid at Calvary.

People were NOT doing that though. They were coming to the celebration looking for a meal. They would drink the cup and KEEP DRINKING THE CUP... and end up drunk!

They had lost the "heart" of why they were there and for what they were doing.

Paul says that they needed to EXAMINE themselves BEFOR taking the symbolic bread and wine.

If they didn't, they ran the risk of condemnation, sickness and even death!

What about us today? Is that need for "self examination" still something we should do? YES!

In a world with too many distractions, we too... find ourselves distracted and unfocused and taking the communion elements with much regard at all about "getting right" before God prior.

Could it be said that we too... are eating the bread and drinking the cup in an "unworthy manner"?!

There is an EAST solution to this problem, but it will take a serious and sincere mindset to make it happen. ADMIT, CONFESS and REPENT.

These are HARD words to do... easy to say, but difficult to actually embrace and do.

We have to humble ourselves and ADMIT that we are and have been MESSED UP and have put our own desires in front of God. We have to CONFESS this to our Heavenly Father and seek FORGIVENESS for this behavior and even our thoughts. For anything that is improper for God's children! (Thats you and me!)

Then we have to commit to REPENT or to "turn away" from that way of thinking and behaving. 

If we do these things, the God of the Universe is going to forgive, show mercy and grace and cleanse us so we can experience the Love of Christ that washes away the stain of sin in our lives through the blood He shed on the Cross... went to the grave and the ROSE AGAIN for all of us!

The next time you "GO TO TÓ THE TABLE"... stop, say a little prayer to ask God to search your heart... to see if there is anything in your life that needs to be dealt with that may be offensive to God and His Word... and then ASK HIM to cleanse you and to forgive you and to pour out His Holy Spirit in your life in an even GREATER way to enable you to walk in a way that is pleasing and honoring to your Lord!

God Bless you and as always... if you have questions about this or any other topic that is spoken about from the Word of God... do not hesitate to ask with a call or a visit!

Blessings!

Pastor Dan