As you consider what you can do to strengthen yourself and to provide a solid life resource for your family, consider making a firm commitment to a ministry that the Lord established sometime ago, the "church." If church were merely man's idea or the product of human invention, it would be of limited benefit. But the church is not the product of man's making. It is the assembly of those redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ. It is a community of those who share faith in one savior. It produces an ensemble of praise from those whose brokenness is made whole by the grace of God through Jesus Christ. It is a source of encouragement, support, challenge, and most of all LOVE. It is not religion. It is not a rigid structure of man made rules and religion. It is a body that is made up of many different people, who have come from many different places, into a community of faith where we can stand together, walk together, and grow in Christ together.
There are many denominations and movements, etc, all of those carry names which are the products of man's doing, but regardless of the name, find a church that centers itself in Jesus Christ, where man takes his hands off what God never intended them to be placed upon and where people can experience grace, and love and grow in faith and in the righteous character of Christ.
As part of Bethel, we must conceive that which God desires and delights in, and allow God to birth things that go well beyond our ideas as to "the way that church should be done." There is only one way for church to be done, or for the church to be what Christ intended it to be. That requires that it be centrally and singularly focused on Christ, bathed, saturated and filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit. Its vision and mission must be conceived and brought forth in His Name and in His Spirit.
Bethel is a part of His church that Love is building.
Begin your year somewhere, and if it is within your travel distance and should the Lord direct you, join us at Bethel! God loves you! Blessings!
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
There are many denominations and movements, etc, all of those carry names which are the products of man's doing, but regardless of the name, find a church that centers itself in Jesus Christ, where man takes his hands off what God never intended them to be placed upon and where people can experience grace, and love and grow in faith and in the righteous character of Christ.
As part of Bethel, we must conceive that which God desires and delights in, and allow God to birth things that go well beyond our ideas as to "the way that church should be done." There is only one way for church to be done, or for the church to be what Christ intended it to be. That requires that it be centrally and singularly focused on Christ, bathed, saturated and filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit. Its vision and mission must be conceived and brought forth in His Name and in His Spirit.
Bethel is a part of His church that Love is building.
Begin your year somewhere, and if it is within your travel distance and should the Lord direct you, join us at Bethel! God loves you! Blessings!
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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