Church

Mark and I love the adventure of traveling and the many opportunities that God gives us along the way.   But it sure is nice to come home and be back in my home church with all our friends.  Fellowship is an important part of church that I miss when we are not here.

Sunday school is such a great  part of our Sunday.  That is where we feel that special  bond that we all need.  We love Durwood as a teacher, but our class is blessed with many subs that can take over when he is not here.
Colonel Nagy is a great teacher and I think that he preached a sermon before the class even started with the two statements.
1) Be a uniter    not a divider
2) Never  pass up the opportunity to be quiet

Then  he taught a great  lesson about the Holy Spirit with lots of class participation that is ever-present with  our very interesting and diverse class members.
We learn  that the word ZOE means abundant eternal life.
We talked about the power of the Holy Spirit.
We talked about the ebbs and flows in our Spiritual life
We talked about being adopting into the family of God.
Learned  that  "sin is serious stuff"

We talked of 4 realities about the Holy Spirit
1) H.S. is a  gift from our loving relationship with our Abba Daddy
2) H.S. constantly builds us up and tells us we are loved and will be raised up
3) H.S. strengthens our prayer life and intercedes  for us according to God's will
4) H.S. reflects our true heart to God when we are confused, in trauma, in doubt or pain.

Then,  after beautiful music and shaking of hands and more fellowship, Brother Wayne turned us to Luke and  Preached  a message about being all-in with Jesus.

First, Love Him  and more than anyone or anything .Give it all to God.
Peter got into trouble when he tried to follow Jesus at a distance and he denied even knowing his Savior three times in one night.

Don't play games

The answer is found in Luke: 23-25
1)  Deny self...the more you give away, the more you enjoy what you have
2) Take up your cross and follow me - Die to self daily all your rights and privileges
3) Follow Me- surrender , count the cost and understand your commitment and go all in
4) Lose your life -You have to lose your life to save it.  His Kingdom must be-
     the most important thing in you life.  

choices:
Self                   or            The  cross
This world         or            His Kingdom
Your path          or            God's Path

These a just a few things that I picked up from the notes that I took during the sermon.  Of, Course Brother Wayne did a much better job of explaining that I can.  I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed being back in church and plan to go every chance I get.

FBC -  Thanks for being there for us weary travelers.