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A Word from Our Pastor . . . 

      I want to share with you today what author Paul W. Powell said in his book, Jump Starting Dead Churches. 

Three times Jesus asked the question, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?”  Three times Peter answered in the affirmative.  Then, in every instance, Jesus gave Peter a work assignment.  First he told him, “Feed my lambs.”  The second and third times he told him, “Feed my sheep.”  Lambs represent little children who need to be taught, trained, and guided.  Sheep represent adults who need to be fed and matured.  Jesus was saying in essence, “I am reassigning you as an apostle.  Now go to work.” 

Talk is cheap.  And the cheapest of talk is religious talk.  Nelda David, a friend of mine, was returning from Tyler to Dallas late one night, when she began to have car trouble.  She was in what she thought was an unsafe part of the city, so she began looking for a good place to pull off the street.  She spotted post office with a well-lit parking lot so she turned into it. 

Just as she stopped her car, a middle-aged man came out of the door of the post office.  She told him her plight and asked for his help.  He told her he was sorry, but he was in a hurry and got in his car and drove off. 

As he pulled away she noticed his bumper sticker on his car.  It read, “Jesus loves you and so do I.” 

That’s the extent of some people’s love.  It never gets beyond words.  They have a bumper sticker religion. 

We not only tell lies, we also sing lies:

• We sing “Sweet Hour of Prayer” and are content with 5-10 minutes a day.
• We sing “Onward Christian Soldiers” and wait to be drafted into His service.
• We sing “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing” and don’t use the one we have.
• We sing “There Shall Be Showers of Blessings” but do not come to church when it rains.
• We sing “Blest Be the Tie That Binds” and let the least little offense sever it.
• We sing “Serve the Lord With Gladness” and gripe about all we have to do.
• We sing “I Love to Tell the Story” and never mention it at all.
• We sing “We’re Marching to Zion” but fail to march to worship or Sunday school.
• We sing “Standing on the Promises” while most often we are sitting on the premises.

I love you church, I really do! 

            In Christ alone,