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Our Pastor often reminds us that we are not a consumer Church.  I love this reminder.  I used to go to a very large Church so that I wouldn’t be noticed or asked to serve, but since I moved here to Arizona, that idea of mine quickly changed with GOD’S prompting.

Our Church encourages you to get involved in groups, studies and greeting or serving in some way.    But one way or the other, we are asked to become involved.  Do you ever ask yourself what your Church can do for you, or what you can do for your Church?

1 CORINTHIANS 12: 27   “NOW YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST AND INDIVIDUALLY MEMBERS OF IT.

We are individually members of it.  Each one of us is important and our gifts can be used and developed by the Spirit.  

DON’T CONSUME IN YOUR CHURCH……..CONTRIBUTE.

Don’t come and go each Sunday, find a way to stay.  Stay and visit, speak with leadership or whatever else your Church offers and find a way to plug in.  Offer your hands and feet, then be the hands and feet of CHRIST.

MATTHEW 5: 8   “BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL, FOR THEY WILL BE SHOWN MERCY.”

Serving and loving on your Church family is all about mercy and it’s all about grace.  It’s all about forgetting about yourself and thinking vertically!

So……..serve with your heart.  Serve with intention.  Serve and learn something new.  Serve with the Gospel in mind.  Be the heartbeat of CHRIST.  And then watch how your Church grows because you are just loving people well!

EPHESIANS 4: 15-16   “INSTEAD, SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE WILL IN ALL THINGS GROW UP INTO CHRIST HIMSELF, WHO IS THE HEAD.  FROM HIM THE WHOLE BODY, FITTED AND HELD TOGETHER BY EVERY SUPPORTING LIGAMENT, GROWS AND BUILDS ITSELF UP IN LOVE THROUGH THE WORK OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PART.”