Saturday, December 18, 2010

Bridgeview Bulletin for December 19, 2010

Welcome to Bridgeview today! I am so glad that you are here this morning. I hope that you have come with a heart that is prepared to worship God and expecting to experience God.
It is hard to believe but we only have two more Sundays left in 2010 and to be honest I am ready for them to come and go. I am not the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, but I am excited about what God is going to do here at Bridgeview in 2011 and I am ready to get started.
Have you ever noticed how much of our lives we wish away? Our kids spend all year wishing it was Christmas, then wishing it was summer and parents spend all Christmas and all summer wishing for Christmas to end and for school to start back. How many days do we suppose that we waste in waiting for tomorrow?
I wonder sometimes if we are waiting for God to do something here at Bridgeview and He is waiting for us to get busy working so He can do something, and in the mean time we are missing out on experiencing His power and He is missing out on having a church that is actually following Him that He can actually bless.
We can’t afford to wait there are too many people depending on us. There are too many people who are curious about God, there are too many people who have been hurt by broken churches, there are too many people who will die and go to hell if we continue to sit idle.
If we are ever going to move forward, we have to make changes, and we can’t wait for the perfect staff, budget, program or building. We have to go and have faith that God will give us the staff, programs, budget and buildings that we need.
Please join me as we close this year in earnest prayer, not just for God’s purpose for our church, His blessings on the church, but for something much more important: the courage to take the first step as we strive to be a church like Jesus.

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