This week we are looking at the three things God tells us we are to be passionate about when he says
“Love the Lord your God with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your mind and with ALL your strength. [And]Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30
Yesterday we say that we are to be passionate about God because of what He has done for us. Today we will look at being passionate about your church.
How do you feel about church? Are you
passionate about your church? Just tonight Sarah Eiden one of our youth leaders
just back from High School camp shared with me that most every kid at camp told
her how much they loved that their church was so welcoming and nonjudgmental.
Last weekend Worship Arts Director Taylor Trickle attended two Mega-Churches in
North AND South Carolina. As much as he appreciated the awesomeness of their
facilities and the functionality of their formats he and his wife Makayla
couldn’t wait to get home because they love and missed the people in their
church.
Just last week Todd Brown of Brown
Church Development Group shared with an assessment of our church’s health. He was so impressed with all that we do and how
we do it. But what was most evident to
him was how much our people love their church. How proud I was to hear a report
that clearly indicated that we are a church body that notably has a passion for
God and a passion for their church family.
Are you passionate about your
church? When we begin to experience
God’s passion for us we naturally seek out and want to be with others who have
the same experience. If you see the church as an organization or an institution
or even as a building you will never be passionate about it. But if you see the
church as what it really is, a family, then you will look forward with
enthusiasm to getting together to worship with them and serve with them and
fellowship with those who are your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Tomorrow we will
conclude this series by looking at the third thing we are to be passionate
about. Any guesses on what Jesus says it is?
Your pastor and partner
in ministry,
Kyle
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