Friday, October 29, 2010

Relocating to a different area and finding a new church

When moving to a new area, not only do we consider our new neighborhood, new job, but our new place of worship. The bible lets to not forsake to ensemble ourselves together. The bible says how can we hear with out a preacher. It also says that we draw strength from other believers. All encompasses the fact of corporately going to the house of God to worship and give thanks to him. Growing in Christ and developing your spiritual walk with God is a key priority. The word of God says he places members in the body as it pleases him. We do not choose our church he does. Let us pray for his direction, instead of our own. Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge him,  and he will direct your path." As followers of Christ we aim to please the Lord by surrounding our lives to him, and embracing his perfect will for our lives.
Many people wonder around from church to church year after year, and to follow his word closely. He does not want us squandering.  God wants us to be stable and not in the winds of the world. We as disciples of Christ are in the world, but not of the world.  It is important to not go looking for the crowd, but where Jesus is. If God lead you to the new church, and they do not have five members, you should witness and share the gospel and recruit more people, in your neighborhood a different places. Encourage them, witness to them, and share your testimony to bring them into a relationship with Christ first and foremost, then if they have no church, invite them to attend your church. The new church may not any music or the music that they have might be the best music. It could even be a kid who is just learning how to play, and if the holy spirit has lead you there, praise God. If  the Lords lays it on your heart to pay for the kid music lessons, then do it, do not reconsider or try to think over. I would advise you to not leave the church to go join a rocknroll band church. Rock-n-roll means to fornicate. The holy bible says in Romans 12 to present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto the Lord God.  It is so detrimental to know what you are embracing because music and things can often attach spirit. Many people just embrace things because they think everybody listens to it or everybody is doing it.  Many times people embrace things that are contrary to the things of God.   The bottom line is to not give God ultimatum because of what you want. We are to deny our fleshly desires and take up the cross and follow Christ. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live no longer I, but Christ lives in me.  He desires to work on character, every place and corner of our lives and conforms it to please him as we are submit totally and completely to his will. In finding a new church it is imperative to be somewhere there preaches against and drawing in closer relationship with him. There are celebrity churches, but do not follow the world. The narrow is the gate. The broad road or the mainstream is destruction.  Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. There are many preachers that are preaching prosperity doctrine. Money is not evil, but the love of it is. These preachers that teach this doctrine are false and stay away from it. Many of them are only concerned about money and not about the salvation. They see there members and numbers and correlated them with money and there houses.  It is a lot things in this world today. There are some preachers who actually are concerned about leading people to Christ and imparting the wisdom of God, and teaching on righteous living, while others have different motives.  Everything said this blog is in love.  Pray and ask God to direct your path before you just go around visiting random churches. Stay in touch with your old pastor if they have imparted wisdom in your life, contact them occasionally and let them know that your care. Often people move on and forget about the pastor and church family that prayed for you and loved you, and was generous to you. Sometimes they opened up their doors to you, allowed you to call their homes anytime day or night, they fed you and clothed you, but  sometimes people move on as if the a that old church family never existed. Although you may be in a different location, time, place and season, never forget a bridge.

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