Reflexion

Warning – These are random thoughts prone to improper grammar, spelling, etc., but they are straight from the heart……..

Easter Sunday is only seven weeks away. WHAT????? Please begin to pray for our Easter services. I pray God do “something only He can do.” It is not too early to begin praying for and inviting friends, neighbors, work associates, family, etc. to come with you on Easter Sunday to worship. Easter Sunday will be an awesome day in many ways. One way in particular is that we will be birthing twins on that day. We will be starting a second service and we want to see God pack this place out for His glory! Our service times on Easter Sunday will be 8:30 and 10:30 AM with a breakfast brunch in the middle. I can hardly wait!!!

LADIES, LADIES, LADIES. Beginning March 15th my sweet wife will be teaching a class based on the book entitled, “Created to be his help meet.” I promise you this revolutionize your marriage. One lady said in reference to this book, “Just wanted to say a big thanks for Debi's book. I laughed and cried my way through it as the Lord brought me to repentance after years of bitterness. How wonderful! Praise the Lord! Your frank, down-to-earth examples and point-by-point use of Scripture is so needed and refreshing in this day and age of psychobabble. Burdens have been lifted, and I look forward to many years of a glorious marriage, Lord willing. From the wife of a non-garbage-carrying COMMANDER!” This class is scheduled for Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM. This is a bridge event that can be effectively used to transition people from a book study to Sunday morning Bible study. You can get information and buy the book at the connetion table at the back of the worship center. Any other questions email Michelle at 4realyoungs@comcast.net.

We need you. March 14th at 10:00 AM we will attempt to touch our community in an incredible way, however it requires your help. On the 14th we will attempt to make contact with every family that has visited our church in the last six months. In addition to contacting guests we will attempt to find those who are on our membership roles but are no longer attending our fellowship. This is endeavor is not intended to guilt people into coming to church or to sneak up on them in any way. This is simply an opportunity for FBCHS to share with these sweet people the great things God is doing here and then to pray with them concerning their needs. When you come out on this particular Saturday you can be involved in one of three ways: A. You can physically go, take a brochure to a family, and pray with them. B. Make a phone call to individual families. C. Pray as others call and go. All three of these areas are vitally important and of equal priority. Please, clear out a place from ten until eleven to show these families that we really care.


Last week I asked you to think about the statement, “God is preparing us for what He is preparing us for.” If this statement is accurate, and I believe it is, we then need to ask ourselves, “am I allowing God to prepare me as an individual, or am I simply sitting and watching as he prepares others while I sit contently on the sidelines?” If each of us only understood the blessing that comes with a passionate commitment to serving others, they would be a waiting list for every ministry need in this church. Ask Him for ears to hear the call.


THE DESTITUTION OF SERVICE, by Oswald Chambers

"Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." 2 Corinthians 12:15
Natural love expects some return, but Paul says - I do not care whether you love me or not, I am willing to destitute myself completely, not merely for your sakes, but that I may get you to God. "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor." Paul's idea of service is exactly along that line - I do not care with what extravagance I spend myself, and I will do it gladly. It was a joyful thing to Paul.
The ecclesiastical idea of a servant of God is not Jesus Christ's idea. His idea is that we serve Him by being the servants of other men. Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul delighted to spend himself out for God's interests in other people, and he did not care what it cost. We come in with our economical notions - "Suppose God wants me to go there - what about the salary? What about the climate? How shall I be looked after? A man must consider these things." All that is an indication that we are serving God with a reserve. The apostle Paul had no reserve. Paul focuses Jesus Christ's idea of a New Testament saint in his life, viz.: not one who proclaims the Gospel merely, but one who becomes broken bread and poured out wine in the hands of Jesus Christ for other lives.