Archives From July 2007

Your Mission Pt. 3

By on July 31st, 2007

 Imagine a new family moves next door to you tomorrow. You being the hospitable sort you are invite them over for lemonade, grilled hamburgers and of course Star Trek reruns. Since you’ve been in the community for awhile your new neighbor asks you a few questions about the hood. Where’s a good cleaners? Where do you go food shopping? Where the place to get a good, smooth mocha latte? What about a sharp haircut? Where’s the post office, lowest priced gas station and nearest Blockbuster? Where do you go for good pizza, the nearest movie and all important Dunkin Donuts? You talk for a bit more and then just before he leaves the new neighbor asks “where do you go for truth around here?

Errors In Judgment

By on July 2nd, 2007

 “They are enemies of the Cross of Christ� (Phil. 3:8).

" Let us, my brethren, make haste and be gone, lest the bath, wherein is Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, should fall upon our heads."
-- Attributed to the Apostle John

Your Misson Should You Choose To Accpet It... Pt. 2

By on July 13th, 2007

 “My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling! He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block�. “God’s will for us is to be successful.�  That’s a sample of the mission statements of a well known entertainer and local purveyor of the prosperity gospel. Both claim to define what God’s mission is and thus by extension what the church’s mission should be. Yet, what is the church’s mission?