Next Week, and thensome

I'll be preaching at Little Hill United Methodist Church. the passage to be preached will be Acts 2...

it's gonna be called Tongues of Fire and Common Men..

it's amazing how God can use just about anyone to fulfill His purpose.. He used Nebuchadnezzar and even the mouth of a jackass to speak to Balaam. the kingdom of Christ was not accelerated by religious leaders, even the ones that followed Christ... but it was common men.. fishermen, tax collectors, shepherds... that spread the word and changed people's lives...

this means we can all be used by God.. in one way or another...

what bothers me the most is when people who claim Christ in their lives, live like He's not there... they try to get people "saved".. but act like they're going to hell with everyone else... there is no fruit... no reason for people to even see a change that will want them to take up this radical belief.. i've been guilty of this... but i know the error of my ways..

Clayton King wrote in a book that he drove past an old church... it was 200 years old and had seen countless revivals and acts of God... but as the years wore on.. politics and less spiritual things came into it.. and eventually.. the church was dead.. . he was sad at first.. but then realized... if it was no longer effective for Christ.. it needed to die.. so others may grow..

people that make God a mockery... would be better off dead than living their ineffective lives... being a stumbling block to those that are actually seeking Him..

harsh, yes.. but Christ said that if anyone causes one of these little ones to stumble.. it would be better that they have millstone tied around their neck and thrown into the sea...
there is no such thing as a Grace Period when you know that you're not living for God.. its' a deception period where you're in the devil's sights... do i lack compassion? probably.

but i think the church as a body lacks committment and values.. we all wait for the big time preachers to cause change.. and then persecute them when they collapse under pressure.. we commit sexual sin and then burn the evangelist in effigy when he gets caught doing something that we were worse with...

i'm a hypocrite... deal with it.