The focus should be the sacrifice of Christ and how we as the church must model ourselves after his example, doing nothing but building others up. Giving until we are dry. NO MORE LUXURY. All you need is a building to gather in, one bible, songbooks, and voices to sing and speak. Boost your numbers by changing your communities, giving to the people who need it, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry. That’s what the church is supposed to be about.

I don’t want to simply reblog something. I’d like to live it. Spencer (via thelisabanana)

Oh yes...

I do need the Bible, oh so badly. To remember what I am called to, to know what I came from, to hold to the only thing that’ll last: God’s word.

"We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections and believing that He understands everything — and loves us still." -AW Tozer

My life to please the one I love.

Substitution

"For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” Hebrews 12:6

I was thinking of this verse, and was applying it to sin and retribution. But then I realized that Jesus has taken all my sins upon himself. The Lord disciplines us, but his wrath is forever spared, having been taken by Jesus. Committing a sin is so much more bitter in light of the one who loves us, but our lives are swept away by the sweetness of assurance we have in God’s steadfast love.

mmm... nothing else will satisfy.

All I Have is Christ

What we tend to win people with is what we tend to win people to.

Bob Kauflin