About Fellowship
Finally, her date, as the cricket crawled close to her cheek, saw it and flicked it away. I pray that this message has done the same with our attitudes, with those crickets in our hair. The question is: U Got Game? To have game you've got to have an attitude of outrageous, contagious joy that only comes from Christ.
If you know me pretty well, you will realize right up front that I am not the handyman type. I am not the kind of guy that you will see perusing the aisles of Home Depot or watching "This Old House." You are more likely to see me at Bass Pro Shop looking around or watching "Fly-Fishing the World." However, several days ago, I stepped out of my comfort zone into my backyard. If you have seen my backyard, you will know what I am talking about. I decided to build a path. We had some pavestone left over from a project, and I picked up those heavy pavestones and tried to place and space them strategically so people could walk on the stones. After I finished, I tested this whole path thing and had to tweak it a little bit. It kind of fired me up. I felt good. I felt like I had accomplished something.
We serve an awesome God, a path paving God. Just take a step and think of what the Lord has done over the last several years. Thousands upon thousands of men and women anchored into corporate worship. Many others involved in small group bible studies, connection classes. People hooked into age-appropriate teaching for children, students, singles. When I was trying to come up with a title for this talk, I was thinking about all this stuff: 20-20 vision, or this or that, and then it hit me. God has done it all; it has been about a decade, so why not €A God-Made Decade.€ He has set the path for our church and He is delighted to see us step in sync with Him. And I truly believe, ladies and gentlemen, if we could see the steps that God has for this church over the next decade, we wouldn't believe it.
While I was doing that, I began to think about stones and steps and paths and all that. I thought about Fellowship, because over the last ten years, God has placed and spaced strategically the steps of Fellowship. Ed-Young says we have stepped in sync with Him. Psalm 37:23, "The steps of a man are established by the Lord and he delights in His way. When he falls he shall not be hurled headlong because the Lord is the one who holds his hand."
If you know me pretty well, you will realize right up front that I am not the handyman type. I am not the kind of guy that you will see perusing the aisles of Home Depot or watching "This Old House." You are more likely to see me at Bass Pro Shop looking around or watching "Fly-Fishing the World." However, several days ago, I stepped out of my comfort zone into my backyard. If you have seen my backyard, you will know what I am talking about. I decided to build a path. We had some pavestone left over from a project, and I picked up those heavy pavestones and tried to place and space them strategically so people could walk on the stones. After I finished, I tested this whole path thing and had to tweak it a little bit. It kind of fired me up. I felt good. I felt like I had accomplished something.
We serve an awesome God, a path paving God. Just take a step and think of what the Lord has done over the last several years. Thousands upon thousands of men and women anchored into corporate worship. Many others involved in small group bible studies, connection classes. People hooked into age-appropriate teaching for children, students, singles. When I was trying to come up with a title for this talk, I was thinking about all this stuff: 20-20 vision, or this or that, and then it hit me. God has done it all; it has been about a decade, so why not €A God-Made Decade.€ He has set the path for our church and He is delighted to see us step in sync with Him. And I truly believe, ladies and gentlemen, if we could see the steps that God has for this church over the next decade, we wouldn't believe it.
While I was doing that, I began to think about stones and steps and paths and all that. I thought about Fellowship, because over the last ten years, God has placed and spaced strategically the steps of Fellowship. Ed-Young says we have stepped in sync with Him. Psalm 37:23, "The steps of a man are established by the Lord and he delights in His way. When he falls he shall not be hurled headlong because the Lord is the one who holds his hand."
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