Coming back from vacation, God put on my heart a question. What can I do to overcome the complacency and apathy found in our church?. The dog days of summer effect many people different ways. But one thing I have found, we easily get distracted from our journey with God. As I continue to pray and look to others for prayer and suggestions, it became clear that we all needed to reignite our passion for God.
Many in our church are new believers, evidenced by the 8 baptisms last week. So as I considered the body as a whole, and seeing the new found excitement in our new believers, I could not help but ask "Has there ever been a time in your life that you were closer to God than you are right now?" And why? A question I first heard ask by Rick Warren.
As I spent time with the new believers in our church, preparing them for baptism, it became clear that what they had was the fresh passion that comes with the understanding of how exciting the decision they had made was.
Life change had taken place and they wanted to let everyone know. As I meet with them in our new believers class, I am constantly refreshed and reminded of the passion they have.
So last Sunday, I began a new series to look at what we can do to reignite our passion for the one who created us. God blessed us with a message that began with Rick Warren and was passed down and made available to all of us. We studied the 7 passion killers and found that for many of us there were things that had taken the passion from us.
As we will continue to look at what it means to have passion for God and what we can do to make a difference in the world, I am excited to see the passion coming back to so many at FBC.
Thank you Jesus, for awaking the passion in us by allowing us to see the true passion that you displayed by going to a cross.
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