FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
  • Home
    • Service Times & Info
    • Who We Are >
      • Pastoral Staff
      • Support Staff
    • Updates
  • Events
  • Get Connected
    • Small Groups/Bible Studies
    • First Serve
  • Ministries
    • His Kidz >
      • His Kidz Worship
      • His Kidz Serve
    • Students >
      • Windy City Mission Trip
    • Women of Faith >
      • Woman to Woman Mentoring
      • MOPS
  • Giving
  • Resources
    • Worship Service Videos
    • S.O.A.P. Bible Reading Plan
    • Audio Sermon Archives

pastor's perspective

EMBRACE Week 4

10/5/2015

1 Comment

 
Weekly Challenge # 4, October 5 - 10:
This is your last opportunity to invite people to Friend Day.  Reconnect with all of those you have invited, reminding them of special day and the times of worship.  Seek one of your names that you hope to have a spiritual conversation with this week.  Ask God for an open door.

I trust that this month's emphasis on EMBRACE has challenged your heart to follow the Lord in obedience as it relates to see your relationships as God given opportunities for you to reach people for Him and to share the love of Christ.  It is important that we realize that we are to love people as Christ loved them with a giving, sacrificial love and that part of loving them is to care enough to share the greatest truth in the world with them.  That truth is that God loves them, sent His Son Jesus to die for them, and that God desires a personal relationship with them, now and forever.

How do we overcome the fear or the hesitation to enter into spiritual conversations?

1.  Prayer.  Pray that God will give you boldness to share in His confidence.
2.  Salvation.  Be sure of your own faith, and share your story of how God brought you to the place of salvation.
3.  Purity.  I know that if I have allowed sin or unconfessed sin to reign in my life then I am unlikely to want to share with others about my faith. 
4.  Faith.  Faith is leaving the results to the Holy Spirit's work in their life.  My job is faithful obedience and loving them, God is the one who saves. 

1 Comment
Barb McCleery link
1/17/2016 12:31:19 pm

Pastor Matt,
Since we were sick this weekend, thought Id listen to 1/10 /sermon
Courageous Disciple. Bud was listening to it too. He isI started reading the scriptures daily. So it was just what we needed to hear.. It was very good!! Bud likes the way your not real loud or preachy, but more like talking to you.& down to earth. So do I. Try to play this e/ Sunday for him to hear.I.
Hope to see you next Sunday, hopefully no snow storm. Sorry I have been missing. Just sickness etc causing absence.! I broke my right leg twice on Ice. Now have a metal plate in ankle/ So skittish about Ice. Third time could be really bad. Also back & hip sciatica sometimes gets really bad.. Keep up the good encouragement. God Bless, Barb McCleery

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    October 2015
    September 2015

    Categories

    All

Faith Baptist Church - Festus, MO


New Office Hours

M-Thu: 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
F: Closed

Numbers

P: 636-937-9260
F: 636-937-7806

Physical Address

Mailing Address

11835 County Road CC
Festus, MO 63028
P.O. Box 264
Festus, MO 63028
  • Home
    • Service Times & Info
    • Who We Are >
      • Pastoral Staff
      • Support Staff
    • Updates
  • Events
  • Get Connected
    • Small Groups/Bible Studies
    • First Serve
  • Ministries
    • His Kidz >
      • His Kidz Worship
      • His Kidz Serve
    • Students >
      • Windy City Mission Trip
    • Women of Faith >
      • Woman to Woman Mentoring
      • MOPS
  • Giving
  • Resources
    • Worship Service Videos
    • S.O.A.P. Bible Reading Plan
    • Audio Sermon Archives