My Father Knows Best

"If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees
of the field shall yield their fruit . . . I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people." Leviticus 26: 3, 4, 12

Have you noticed that rules, regulations, and laws bring out the human tendency to ask, "But why?"

Many of our problems arise from ignoring God's Word when we don't think His instructions make sense. Moses tells us that the rules and regulations God gave to His people not only kept them clean - make that holy - before Him, but they also protected them from discomfort, sickness, and untimely death.

In some ways, the law can be seen as God solving a problem before it ever occurs. Moses reminds us that God always knows what is best he never lies - for us and for our relationship with Him. The purpose of the law is to reveal sin so that people will see their need for the savior.

We want to include people in our family whether or not they are “useful” in the traditional sense of ministry. Jesus hung out with the lame, the blind, and the broken, not because of what they might do for Him as a religious leader, but because of what He could offer to them.

We want to involve people in a God-sized vision and mission in the world. And everyone is valuable to that mission, regardless of their appearance or apparent skill set.

We want to empower people to grow spiritually as they get involved in ministry. We as Christians should not set out to interpret scripture by ourselves. Our own reason, experiences interests and opinions are distorted by the nature of sin, which to me clouds and confuse us about meaning and the use of God's word. The holy spirit must open scripture for us through faith which is the basis of our unity.

In the business world, we’re concerned with production, but in the church world, we’re concerned less with how much gets done and much more with how people are growing. Life together in the church requires unity, because people cannot dwell together long without unity.
We want to release people, trusting the Holy Spirit to guide them as they attempt big things for a big God. That means granting them the freedom to be themselves, to take risks, and to fail. It even means releasing them to another church in the Kingdom when God calls them elsewhere, and investing all we can into them while they’re under our care.

Do what is right dispensing Grace to the sick, poor and unwanted as we are what we are in this world but not of it ,"set loose in it Reconciled". Be a dispenser of Grace , not a moral exterminator!

God Bless You and this Ministry!