Knowing and Doing

I have missed blogging for a while and honestly needed to back away for sabbatical from this.  I have truly been inspired today. The latest Church Campaign being promoted is called “Back to Church” on September 16, 2012.  The idea behind it is to get disgruntled church folk back into church as well as non-church folk on that particular Sunday. Of course, you realize and I hope you are thinking that I have some problems with this.  One, for decades, the rural church in America are still having “Homecomings” once a year to do this very thing.  We also have “Friend Day” where we urge folks to invite their neighbors to church as we recently did at Telephone BC. Two, the website urges churches in CITIES to get together as a city wide campaign.  So, this doesn’t appeal to the churches in the rural areas.  I would tell you that in my disagreement with this, churches in rural areas tend to work together more than city churches do.  IMHO, I find that city chur...

EXTRA...EXTRA...Read all about it!!  Jesus overturns tables in temple courts!! Mark 11:15-25 THERE ARE THE IMAGE BUILDERS AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW IMAGE But you have made it a den of robbers..Image Builders rob God of His glory…the glory He deserves and the honor He is due…why?  He is Creator…He is author of life…He sent His Son to be our Savior…He works in our lives!! Building an image of ourselves is something.  We spend a lot of our lives building upon our names, building upon a career, and building up a family.  And we bring that attitude to church.  We want that for church…to make sure Telephone Baptist Church has a name and an image…that we are all clean, hard working middle classed good old country folk. Image Builders think that God is pleased when we build an empire. The Jewish Passover celebration commemorated the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, when the death angel passed over every home where the blood of a lamb was applied to the do...