A WOW Moment

Everyone knows what a WOW moment is.  When you hear or read something and all that can be said is, WOW!  I had one of these moments just the other day.  I am new to Twitter and I follow Gary Morgan, a pastor in the Nashville area.  He was the camp pastor at the Fuge camp that we took our youth group to this summer.  His tweet was, Why is the church the most likely place to find people doing something just once a week and expecting life changing results?  When I read this all that could be said was WOW!  This is a bold statement, but sadly its true for many believers that walk into a church building on Sunday mornings.  Show up, sing the songs, and listen to the sermon.  Walk out feeling good that they heard a good message.  The rest of the week, they never open a Bible or pray.  What's worse, there life never reflects Christ.  Growing up, I thought all you had to do as a Christian was to just go to church.  God wants us to have a close relationship with Him and the only way that we can ever have that is through studying His Word and talking to Him in prayer.  Take some time and spend it with Him each day, it will change your life. 

We are FREE

With this being the July 4th holiday weekend.  We celebrate the freedom that we have as Americans.  But I was thinking about all of the freedoms that we have as Americans that we overlook.  The freedom to assemble as a body of believers.  To go into a building and not have to worry about being arrested or executed for doing this.  Owning a Bible or sharing the Word of God to those that we come into contact with on a daily basis.  So many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are persecuted daily for sharing God's love to others on foreign soil.  The sad thing is that we have this freedom and so many are embarrassed or scared to do so.  While death is a part of life and people are dying daily, we are so consumed with what others think of us that we don't say a thing.  The opportunities that God gives us daily, we just stay silent and people die without Christ.  On the mission field, men and women are sharing the Gospel to villages and countries all over the world.  Our mission field is here and the calling that God has given us is in Matthew 28.  The message that Matthew 9 gives has never been more true than today.  The harvest is great but the workers are few.  We have been freed from our sin debt, when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose three days later.  He defeated the one thing that we could not have.  God's love for us is the greatest gift that we could ever have been given.  Its time for the children of God to step up and share that gift with our families, friends, and those that we come in contact with daily.  Stop worrying about what people think and start doing what God called us to do

Keep Christ First
Billy