These frigid temperatures we are currently enduring reminded me of a time I came home to the Cane River parsonage with my young family on a winter night. When I walked in--it was ice cold. The furnace was out. We had run out of fuel. That is not a good scenario.
If we do not fuel the spiritual fire in our souls, the church will become cold. I think of the church at Sardis. They were open for "business," but it had become a morgue. The spiritual corpses were dressed nicely, and an undertaker delivered a cold sermon. Jesus said, "You have a name that you are alive, but you are dead," (Rev. 3:1b).
The last thing this world needs is a dead church. Our world is a cold and brutal place. If a fire is found in the church, lost sinners and straying saints may seek the warmth to be found there.
Will you be the wood to fuel that fire? Here is how:
Seek God's voice in the Word;
Seek God's face in your prayers;
Seek lost sheep in the community;
Serve God's family in the church.
May God set my soul on fire! I pray that for our churches in Haywood Baptist Association.
Your Servant,
Dennis Thurman, Mission Strategist
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