On Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving, I talked about giving thanks to God IN all circumstances. Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of a spiritual fire. Sometimes we place ourselves there because of bad decisions or sin. Then there are those times that God places us in the firey furnace. Here's the key: it's in the midst of the fire that God brings change to our lives.
Some of you are reading this today and you are on the verge of giving up because the heat of the fire is becoming more than you can bear. You question your leadership. You question the point. You are tired and confused and frustrated. You feel burned out and think the lack of growth in your group is the result of a flaw in your leadership. My encouragement to you:
Stay the course.
What you are doing is fulfilling the role your Creator gave you to do. You are completing the mission your Lord and Savior has charged you to do. When He gave His last command, the Great Commission, He said, “Go and make disciples of all nations.” He didn’t say go find disciples. He said go make disciples. That means it's work. And that requires us to embrace the fire and stay in the fire until God has competed His work.
Let's remember our mission is to make disciples...not simply find them.
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