Good afternoon and Happy Tuesday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited As we continue in the month of Corrective Action based on Deuteronomy 8:1-5, 2nd Samuel 16:9-12 and 1st Corinthians 11:23-26 there is something that bothers me. There are times that I have been inside the four walls of the church and have heard things that were said negatively that I could not believe it. Like I heard a comment about how the church does not respond to the needs of every member and that they only help the "special ones". About how churches are tuning away from traditional things that we were used to and how that is hurting the Body of Christ as a whole. Then the statement really upsets me is that the minister is looking out for his best interest and not that of the congregation. It seems like the church today has turned from something positive to the Complaint Department
In going to my source of definitions to define the word complaint I go to dictionary.com Complaint means as follows; an expression of discontent, a cause of grief, and resentment. We as the Body of
are not supposed to be none of these things outside of the church and nor inside of the church. God does not like or condone negativity and when he sees this he does Corrective Actions. Complaint Department.
In going to the Word of God for this teaching of Compliant Department I begin in Judges 6:7-10. In this passage the people of God complained about the way they were being treated by God but they
did not listen to God because they served the gods of the world. There are some of us who are expressing discontent at the fact that there is no communion served on the first Sunday or the choir does not sing the older songs are mad. Complaint Department.
As we continue in the Word of God for this teaching of Complaint Department I go to 1st Samuel 8:4-9. In this passage the people of God want a king to reign over them like other people of the world
and in doing so are rejecting God. When the church rejects the leaders of the church their cause of grief is not against the one that God placed in that position but against God who placed the one in that position. Complaint Department.
As we come to the end of the Biblical portion of this teaching of Compliant Department I go to Matthew 20:1-16. In these verses Jesus tells of a parable of how the last workers got paid the same as
the worker who was there at the beginning. Too many times members of churches have resentment that newer members have been elevated for a position and they have not been at the church that long. Compliant Department.
In conclusion if the Body of Christ does not get it together there could be a whole generation of youth who are lost and will not experience the love and blessings of God. Doing things that are not traditional should have members of the church expressing discontent. By trying to cause grief in your church by talking about your leader does not mean that you are hurting them but you are against God who gave them the position. And there cannot be resentment over a title or position that some one else have. Each time this has happened in the Bible God's Corrective Actions were swift and hard. Compliant Departments do not belong in the Body of Christ. I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching and thank him for bringing out of the negative things I was saying as well. Please join me Saturday for a teaching You Can't Always Get What You Want. And please read a teaching on Rhema Word 2.0 called The Love of Astroturf. Have a great week all.
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. This past month I was riding with my friend Angela Francis. On this particular day she had to go get her hair done and her friend Roxanne' shop. I had done this numerous times in the past so when I was getting ready to leave I told Angela I was going to the forest preserve to sit and wait as she got her hair done. At the forest preserve I would be able to do two things while I was there. I would be able to think of ideas for my blog, my radio show and my daily postings on Facebook. When you attempt to write you sometimes get writer's block and need to get to a different atmosphere ( Hmmm Writer's Block may be a blog soon LOL ). The other reason I wanted to go to the forest preserve is because it was hot that day and I needed some shade. So as I approached the forest preserve I put on my left turn signal and waited for traffic coming southbound to clear. After
Good morning and Happy Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. Growing up we used to love to take pictures. Maybe not myself because I had a self confidence problem, but everywhere you went there was someone taking pictures. In grammar school we took pictures every week. In high school we took them every year. At church we took pictures. In the club we took pictures as a group to show we all went to a party. Most of the pictures we took were with a Polaroid camera which had great quality then. But if you wanted the best pictures you wanted the photographer to take your pictures. This was one of the coolest professions back then because all the ladies who wanted to be models or actresses had to go to the photographer to get that photo to take to the different agencies to show how they look. So in order to get the best quality the photographer had to go someplace where he could get the best results. It was his Dark Room. This is the na
Good morning and Happy Friday. The summer is now beginning and the weather is now reaching its highest temperatures. It has reached a high point of 90's so far in the Chicagoland area and it appears to be nothing in sight to relieve us of these conditions that are almost drought like. As the summer gets ready to start in earnest next week we anticipate the warmest temps of the year after a winter that saw a little snow but the hawk, ( that's what we call the wind in the CHI ) was in full effect. But the sun has been out daily and we need a little moisture in our lives. We expect things to get wet in order for us to not only cool off but to wash away some things and bring a freshness of new things in our lives. The hotness of the weather coincides with the hotness in our lives. We need things to cool off a little bit but need some things to come down so we can enjoy the things in our lives that is promised to us as Christians. We are faithful and trusting in his Word. So as we
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