Fall Schedule- Sunday school at 9 AM & Worship at 10:15 AM
Come as you are. Experience God's love. Go out like Christ.
3864 Glenville Rd, Glenville, PA 17329
Come as you are. Experience God's love. Go out like Christ.
3864 Glenville Rd, Glenville, PA 17329
"The spirit of truth, the world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him, nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you." John 14-17.
I've often become frustrated with people who just aren't making great choices in my mind. I see people starting relationships before they're ready, having kids way too soon, and working themselves into financial hardship. Furthermore, I see the meaning of religion slipping further and further away, morality in general is being compromised. Different systems for what is okay, and what isn't have set in. As a Christian, it saddens me to realize, I'm seen as a stick in the mud, holding a biblical view in many instances.
Yet, I love what a friend told me just a few years ago. Brandon, you cannot expect non-Christians to act like Christians. And I have to tell you friends, since then, I've relaxed a whole lot. Okay, I'm still sad, but at least I've realized, he's right. The people I know and who I see not following the way of God are just doing what they know? They simply are fine living from moment to moment, doing whatever feels good for them, right now!
So what can I do? First of all, I can pray for those people? I can honestly know those people have the opportunity to be God's child as well as me. And I can certainly thank God for putting them in my life, so I may be a light to them. But the second thing, which is just as important in my estimation, I must not get caught up in their way of living. Even if it seems really good, really easy to do it, I must not slip into a way God just doesn't want me to live. I must model the way of Jesus, as I live with, and interact with others. I must show the kind of grace Jesus shows for me when I mess up to one's I may not agree with when they sin against me or against God?
So friends as we are drawn to the table of life, let us remember, we answer to one different from the world. The world does not know the truth, and therefore cannot accept it, but we do. Therefore we should always live by it, breathe it, enjoy it, and run after it. We should hunger and thirst for the spirit of truth in all we are and all we do. That's how we grow as a Christian. That's how we can face whatever the world does, or however others act we might not agree with, by putting on the armor of God, knowing the truth sets us free from any stress or concern. And with that spirit of truth within us, we can show God's love to a world which yearns for it, but doesn't have a clue how to attain it, and may not even know they need it!
So smile, know the truth is within you, and you will be set free. Don't be okay with the world's way, but love people anyway, and don't fall into that way, yourself. Treat everyone as though they are God's child. After all, under the spirit of truth, they are!
To God be the glory
Pastor Brandon
Service times for September - May
Adult Sunday school 9 am
Morning Worship at 10:15 am
Please come, all are Welcome.
Enjoy the feeling of home and family.