Living Sacrifice!

Galatians 5: 7

You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth?

Did you know that 80% of all people who attend church, are really only spectators?

As I looked for books on church involvement the other day, there were several of them available;

“5 Ways To Get Members Involved” – “10 Ways You Can Get Your Church Involved” – “50 Tips On Getting More Involvement In Your Church” – “14 Steps To Get Your Church On Fire”

Wow—that seems so tiring, trying to get people to love and serve Jesus.

It’s really more work than a simple, local Pastor like me, can wrap their arms around.

People actually play the… “catch me if you can”, game in the church.

That’s the problem. Serving and loving Jesus is not a game.

A.W. Tozier once said…. “How injurious to the new convert of Jesus, are the false teachers and carnal Christians.”

A carnal Christian cannot please God, is unable to digest solid spiritual food, and is filled with strife, envy, and division.

Carnal Christians keep the Pastor of a local church, from feeding and shepherding the sheep who really desire loving Jesus.

During this final week of Lent, I truly believe people should come to the end of themselves.

If a person is disillusioned by the church they attend, it might just be the person, and not the church at all.

Paul said to the church in Rome, that they should offer themselves as living sacrifices.

For some reason, that seems to be a missing element of many in the church today.

I guess I never needed to read a book on church involvement. I just realized what Jesus required, and then I went for it…