After reading this chapter I spent the day waiting to blog about it. Never got there as life got in the way, so here I am now. The word FAITH kept coming up here and I kept thinking of our church. All of the people mentioned in this passage had faith in God to provide for them. They did what was asked of them because they had faith in God and his plan.
I can't help but wonder do we at 'Faith' feel that way? Do we have faith in God's plan? Do we have faith in each other? It doesn't always seem so.
Our church is in a new era. We have a new pastor with new ideas and new views on how we as a church can express our faith and live out our mission. Some of our members are 'all in' (as we have said on our mission trip), others are skeptical and still others are pretty neutral.
How do we create a congregation that wants to live out it's mission and make a difference in the world. Not just in the Quincy area.
The excitement that you get when you go away on a mission trip or a youth event can easily get squashed when you come back and are hit with negativity. Some say 'why not do that here in our area'? 'Why go so far?' "We have people here who need our help."
We have been helping people in our area for as long as I can remember. There have been many programs that our church has been involved in over the years helping out the greater community. Now is the time for our youth and adults to branch out and see that there is a great big world out there. When we branch out we meet people we would not in our immediate community, we have experiences we could not have in our own backyard.
After going on the mission trip I am a firm believer that everyone who is able to should have that experience at least once in their life. They would see things differently I believe.
Faith is the assurance of things hope for the confiction of things not seen. What are we looking for?
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