from my heart....
I truly believe that God is the one who burdens hearts when He wants to do a mighty work and I have to say that my heart has been burdened for long time.
In the last couple of years I have been aware of an alarming number of people in our church community who feel completely disconnected from the body of the Church.
For myself, I have been there, however, God has equipped me to be pro-active in my emotional needs by giving me a desire to seek Him in all things and He has given me amazing friends and He has given me the gift of being a friend and, so, I remain faithful to the Body, and yet, saddened by those around who are missing the " life abundant".
I think that in this day where we interact with people through email and text and IM and blogs and MySpace and countless other impersonal ways, we have lost our ability to connect with others and, more alarming, we have lost that desire to connect with others.
What are we to do?
I believe that we need to be more purposeful about connecting with people and I believe that we need to pray to have that burden put on our hearts.
How can we, as the Christian community, reach a lost and dying world when we don't have a burden to reach people and really make a difference in someone's life?
People are more important that projects, I've heard it said.
It's true.....
We have a new mission in our community of faith and it's making a difference!
Example:
In the past, we have had very low turn-out for anything planned as far as fellowship goes, seriously, at our Christmas party, in our age group, 3 out of 60 members showed up.
That has been pretty much status-quo for us for a long time.
People show up Sunday morning and for nothing else.
How can we get to know people if they don't show up and how can we minister to them if they don't show?
How can we get people to want to come.....?
You wanna know what turned it around?
We called people and PERSONALLY invited them and made them feel important to the rest of the group so that they would want to come and be part of a body of believers.
At the last BBQ we over 120 people show up!!!!!!!
I didn't even know we had that many people in our age group at our church!!!!
God blessed our efforts and blessed those around us and I feel the tide changing....
We have also felt a burden to have a home-group type of fellowship to really connect with a small group of people in a more intimate setting other than church, and we will be starting that this Sunday and, hopefully, others will want to do the same and from there....who knows?
Jesus was the most beautiful example of having a servant's heart when he washed the feet of his disciples knowing that in a few short hours they would betray him......then He died for them....and for you.
Take time to reach out to those around you....you will be blessed.
In the last couple of years I have been aware of an alarming number of people in our church community who feel completely disconnected from the body of the Church.
For myself, I have been there, however, God has equipped me to be pro-active in my emotional needs by giving me a desire to seek Him in all things and He has given me amazing friends and He has given me the gift of being a friend and, so, I remain faithful to the Body, and yet, saddened by those around who are missing the " life abundant".
I think that in this day where we interact with people through email and text and IM and blogs and MySpace and countless other impersonal ways, we have lost our ability to connect with others and, more alarming, we have lost that desire to connect with others.
What are we to do?
I believe that we need to be more purposeful about connecting with people and I believe that we need to pray to have that burden put on our hearts.
How can we, as the Christian community, reach a lost and dying world when we don't have a burden to reach people and really make a difference in someone's life?
People are more important that projects, I've heard it said.
It's true.....
We have a new mission in our community of faith and it's making a difference!
Example:
In the past, we have had very low turn-out for anything planned as far as fellowship goes, seriously, at our Christmas party, in our age group, 3 out of 60 members showed up.
That has been pretty much status-quo for us for a long time.
People show up Sunday morning and for nothing else.
How can we get to know people if they don't show up and how can we minister to them if they don't show?
How can we get people to want to come.....?
You wanna know what turned it around?
We called people and PERSONALLY invited them and made them feel important to the rest of the group so that they would want to come and be part of a body of believers.
At the last BBQ we over 120 people show up!!!!!!!
I didn't even know we had that many people in our age group at our church!!!!
God blessed our efforts and blessed those around us and I feel the tide changing....
We have also felt a burden to have a home-group type of fellowship to really connect with a small group of people in a more intimate setting other than church, and we will be starting that this Sunday and, hopefully, others will want to do the same and from there....who knows?
Jesus was the most beautiful example of having a servant's heart when he washed the feet of his disciples knowing that in a few short hours they would betray him......then He died for them....and for you.
Take time to reach out to those around you....you will be blessed.
posted by Lori's World @ 9:27 AM
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