i am an offering

Pastor Wade will be on vacation for the next couple of weekends, so I get the privilege to preach on August 5th at Living Word.  I want to teach about what leads to death (from James 1) and then what leads to life (confession, repentance, obedience).

We have a pretty good grasp on leading ourselves to death, often without even realizing what we’re doing.  I want to help people avoid those steps.  Sadly, though, we don’t have a good grasp on what really leads to life.  Hopefully the hope of the Gospel and the hope of God’s call to obedience will help people struggling with spritual death come back to life!

You must be thinking, “What?? How can you have a title like that?”

I was challenged today.  A friend and co-worker shared devotions from Philippians.  Paul was talking to the church and asking that they would exalt and magnify Jesus in everything they do in life.  That leads to this question:  Is God just a priority?  In other words, does your “checklist of life” look like this:

1. God.  Check.
2. Family. Check.
3. Work. Check.
4. Etc…check.

How often do we as  followers of Christ make a list like this and then leave God at the top and forget about Him.  We should be challenged to make our “checklist of life” look like this instead:

1. God.
2. God.  Family.
3. God. Work.
4. God. Etc…

Our life should revolve around Him, He shouldn’t simply just be our top priority.  Everything we do; love, life, work, play, hobbies, spare time, everything should revolve around magnifying Him and making His name known.  We exist to make Him famous.

I’m glad I was challenged today.