Hello Everyone,

The job of the church is not to impact the church, but our job is to impact the world.

It’s like a huddle in a football game. 70,000 people don’t pay $50.00 a ticket to watch the huddle. What if you went to a Clemson/Carolina game and for 2 ½ hours you watched 11 men stand in a circle and talk?

That’s not what you paid for or why you are there!

70,000 people pay $50 a ticket to see what difference the huddle makes. What they want to know is, after you have called the play in the huddle, does it work on the field?

The challenge for the church is not what we do when we call our play in our Sunday morning huddle, but what we do when we leave our huddle and head to our Mission field.

1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 27 NIV
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

You may ask, pastor, how does all of this apply today?

Verses 8-10 remind us that the believer is EQUIPPED.
Verses 11, 27 remind us that EVERY BELIEVER is equipped, that we are a part of the body of Christ, and that it is time to “GET IN THE GAME!”

You do not want to get in the game without being properly equipped.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil