Can we please try to remember that this isn't Heaven yet...we're on the way, an imperfect journey, but we're gettin' there....together. I need for you to walk with me, I want to walk with you, we aren't walking alone...I need for you to be a little patient every now and then and you need me to be a little patient now and then. Thank you for bearing with our journey together...that we will be grown up boys and girls, as best as we can....
These are hard days. It's tough for ministries. It's tough for churches. It's tough for parents. It's tough for men, and it's tough for women. It's tough to know who you can trust and who you can't. It's tough to weed out fact from a preponderance of fiction. In general, life is hard. Did you know the Bible promises that life will be hard? In a recent conversation with Ann about the overall decline of the church... why congregations take off and then systematically shrink and ultimately dissolve... I believe the Lord dropped a relevant truth into my heart. It's not anything I haven't said before, but it is in a different context. I'm seeing a trend in making converts without discipleship. And, in the cases where discipling does take place, I fear there is some error in the teaching which could, in very large part, be responsible for the decline of the American church. ...
That is what it means to be brothers and sisters in Christ, right? To be there, to bear one another's burdens and to encourage?
ReplyDeleteThank you for inviting us to share your journey on your blog. God bless.
You betcha, Katherine....blessings...
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