Dying in God's Blessing

Dying in God’s Blessing

Posted by admin2 | Filed under Grace Community Church, Ministry, Personal

God continues to move Grace into “the good land.” In other words, He’s blessing. On a more personal scale, God has moved my family to the good land. No doubt God called my family here to NY for me to preach, and pastor the wonderful Grace crowd. Grace is relationally and spiritually healthy and steadily (and quickly!) growing.

We are in a good land.

But here’s a word God gave me a while back: “But let not your heart turn away from the Lord to worship other gods.” … “Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is now giving you. So commit yourselves completely to these words of mine.” Deut. 11:16 - 18

A church quickly growing can begin quickly dying. How? Worshiping “the good land,” the blessing, instead of Jesus. Idolatry lurks, and it can range from idolizing buildings, personalities, vision, strategies, ministries, to styles of music. For me, Idolatry can be revealed in worshiping the ministry of God, the Church of God, instead of the God of the ministry and of the Church. A Church, a family, a person can “die” in the midst of blessing. How? The heart turns away from the Lord of blessing to the blessing of the Lord. Self-dependence, arrogance, ego, begin to rear their rears. When you take what is good–blessing–and make it ultimate, that’s idolatry.

And that’s the sure fire way of dying in blessing.

Beware…

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