Thursday, June 5

Finishing The Task

I'm thankful to Father, for Mark Sayers' provocation to ruminate in Hebrews 10:25 . . .
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.
Maybe the reason 15 million christians don't Go To Church is that they reckon church is not a building. Maybe they don't experience the truth of Christ's Commandment by going to church as is the habit of some.

Many find the daily experience taught in the Scriptures among the assembly of Christian friends (at a home, coffee shop, or mall), rather than a Church Service. How's your mileage? Yes, please reply (this is a question and this is interactive media).

Why do we continue to invest time & money in a paradigm with a 1% yield (some would say less) of souls? I'd rather listen to the esteemed research of Mr. George Barna (of The Barna Group) than some Mark Sayers.

Jesus said,
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple. Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile.

It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
So let the tower be finished, so let the war be won, for worthy is the Man who began: to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.

To him be dominion, for ever, and ever. Amen.

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