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August 2, Youth Team Meeting 7pm at the Church Hall
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I Love my Church
The church is the people of God redeemed on purpose for a purpose.
Last week we discussed our purpose, our why.
It is Jesus.
Everything we do as a church, as Christians should find it’s source in Him.
Today we begin to see what a shared WHY can do.
It’s the next reason why I LOVE MY CHURCH: the people.
Our why, Jesus, makes us into the church.
Because of what Jesus has done I can say today I LOVE MY CHURCH, but it wasn’t always that way.
There was a time when I got very bored with Church and with God?
I may have gone, but my heart was definitely not in it.
I went out of obligation.
I went because I was supposed to be there.
Have you ever been there?
I grew up in church.
In fact my parents were part of the founding families of the church I grew up in.
My dad was the worship leader there for like 50 years I think.
He loved that church, my mom loved that church.
Me I had a drug problem.
I was drug to church 3 sometimes 4 times a week.
Eventually I was able to kick my drug problem.
So I left.
when I got in high school, I just quit going.
My dad gave me the choice I guess and my choice was to not go.
Instead I went with my best friend to his church.
His dad was the pastor and one of my football coaches so I liked being with them.
I’d eat lunch with them after church too.
It was more about being with them than it was being in church though that was very clear to me.
I just didn’t get it.
I felt like a misfit in church.
People would talk about Jesus like they knew him and I only knew about him.
Eventually I just got tired of feeling out of place, so I quit going.
I would go back every now and then, but never felt like I belonged in the house of God.
Then one day, like turning on a switch, everything changed.
But returning when I realized what God had done for me.
I saw myself as a misfit, but God knew I would be a perfect fit.
How he was taking the misfit Gary and shaping me to be a perfect fit.
That’s what God does, he perfectly fits his misfits in the church.
I felt like this box I had when we moved.
When we started packing we were pretty intentional.
WE had these dish packs for the fancy china and crystal glasses.
We had other special boxes for things in the kitchen.
But eventually we were left with bits and pieces that wouldn’t fill a box alone, so they got mixed in with other things.
I labeled it odds and ends.
It was full of perfectly functioning things, but I wasn’t sure where they belonged when we got to our new house.
You:
Do you know where you fit?
Do you know how God wants to use you to connect with other misfits in Rock Hall, at your office, in your home?
Maybe pastor, but because of my divorce, God wont use me.
I’ll just keep coming though.
Maybe you didn’t have a divorce, maybe your issue is that you were:
Abused
little faith
Alcoholic
Liar
Codependent
Depression
Porn
Anxiety
Widowed
Abortion
Eat too much
Habits
Poor
Busy
Single mom
We may feel like misfits, but Jesus welcomes us right in and we become a church of former misfits.
The Apostle Paul describes the church of former misfits this way...
You see when I talk about my church, i’m not talking about the building.
I’m talking about you, y’all …and not just all y’all, but the church extends across time.
The church includes the apostle Paul, the church fathers, even
Hiram Jones, the chairman of the first building committee of the Wesleyan Chapel in 1829 and the ones who constructed the one now in 1852.
I’m not impressed with what they accomplished, I’m impressed by who accomplished it.
I don’t know these men and women who have gone before me and you.
But I do know one thing, they weren’t born Christian any more than I was, or you were.
Their families had issues just like yours and mine, and guess what, God did amazing things through them.
In the bible, Paul was a murdering zealot; David was an adulterer.
Martha was an anxious work-aholic.
Sarai had no faith.
Jonah ran away from his call and got mad when God showed up anyway.
Peter denied him and all the apostles ran away.
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes.
I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty.
I am trusting and suspicious.
I am honest and I still play games.
Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark.
In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
As Thomas Merton put it, "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God."
I love to hear stories of how God gets hold of people and changes and uses them.
When I hear those stories or see those changes in people, it excites my faith.
What about you?
Some of you could tell those stories.
Marriage was saved.
Prodigal child came home.
Destructive lifestyle overcome.
We need to hear your stories.
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