Worship at 10:30 Sunday Morning

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Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I give thanks to our gracious God for putting you all in our lives. Your faithfulness and your enthusiasm fill my heart with joy and helps complete my hope in Christ. Every day I look forward to serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ alongside each of you and growing in our discipleship journey together.

As I was reading in God’s Word, a passage stood out to me. In Matthew 10:5-6, Jesus commissions His disciples to go out. As He sent them out, he did so with this instruction, “Don’t go among the Gentiles or into a Samaritan city. Go instead to the lost sheep, the people of Israel.” Jesus’ mission was to help the people of Israel to recover their identity as God’s chosen nation. Jesus, who some considered the second Adam, came to restore the relationship that was broken in the Garden, and that continued to be broken through the Judges, Prophets, and Kings. However, we know that the nation of Israel, like before, rejected whom God sent. Eventually Jesus would go beyond the boundary of Israel and begin reaching out to the Gentiles as well as the Samaritans.

Today, Jesus still instructs those who follow His teachings, to go out into all the world and make disciples. Unfortunately, most churches forget the “go” part. We think that inviting someone to our “church” or to our “worship” is making a disciple. While this does bear fruit on occasion, the true purpose of discipleship is to go out into the lost sheep. We are called to get out of our comfort zones and remove the barrier of mortar and bricks. Christ wants us to establish relationships and share the love of Christ and the power of redemption with those who are in the margins.

I know you have heard this a bunch of times from me, and even more before me, however many still have a tough time of following through. Let me share with you some hard truths: Unless we as Global Methodist begin to live out our mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ, we are going to look very similar to what we all left. Unless we allow the Holy Spirit to create a passion for the harvest, and unless we are willing to deepen our imitate with Christ, we will simply be going through the motions and not being impactful for the Kingdom.

When we say, “I don’t feel comfortable doing that” or “That’s not my gift” or “I don’t know how” we are limiting the activity of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Also, if we make one or more of those statements, yet do not seek to learn how through teaching opportunities, what we are saying is that we don’t really intend to follow through. The American church allows comfort, biases, and excuses to stop them from being obedient to God’s call upon our lives as disciple and the church. I don’t want to sound gruff, but there are already too many “luke warm” churches in America.

The purpose of Carrie and I moving to the Global Methodist Church, and to Kerrville was to be a part of an impactful, thriving group of believers who want to be obedient to the call of discipleship. Join us in making a commitment to Christ and to our congregation to do everything possible to be a church of growing disciples, who seek to be a disciple makers. Let us allow the Holy Spirit to lead us to the lost sheep in Kerr County so we can share the Good News of Christ, and the Hope of restoration and redemption in our broken lives. Amen!!

Have a blessed week!

Blessings to you! 

Pastor Frank

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