As Christians our priority for life should be one. Listen to the call Jesus makes on those who want to follow him. Luke 9:23Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
What are your Priorities? What are your “Big Rocks”?
We are having Matt Walsh’s Baptism this Sunday after church. We’ll meet down at Cotton Tree at 11.30. Please stay around afterwards to have lunch together. Hope to see you there.
There are two subjects you try to avoid with your kids. Money and sex. You can’t avoid them because if you don’t talk about them with them someone else will. So here at church we don’t want to avoid talking about money. You might have a perception of churches that all they want it your money well. Sorry about that but this is the first time we have spoken about money in the 3 years I have been here.
Elders – the under shepherds
They do Shepherding of God’s flock. They have a responsibility to Jesus for the church.
This can be summed up under 4 headings:-
Teaching –In the list of qualifications in 1 Timothy 5 there is one skill required ie able to teach. As shepherds they are to feed the flock. This involves knowing the Bible, understanding it and clearly teaching it.
Protect – Acts 20:28 says Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock. They are to protect the flock from false teachers.
Caring – James 5:14 says:- Is anyone sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over them…
They are to care for the church. They are to lose sleep over the people under their care as a father or mother does for their children.
Managing – In Titus 1:7 they are called overseers and so are to provide oversight. Supervise. They are not only to know what is going on in the life of the church but lead and direct what is going on. Making sure there is direction, systems, policies, procedures for church life.
These are all to be done with an attitude SERVING like Jesus who laid down his life for his sheep.
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Incarnation of Jesus: God on earth, God with us, God became man.
How can we know God? Jesus is the answer.
