The story is told of a group of men who had been sailing in the Atlantic Ocean when they came too close to shore and crashed against the rocks. Out of concern for other sailors in similar conditions, the surviving group determined…watch the video to learn more.
You’ve heard of TMI, right? “Too Much Information”? Don’t need to know everything about everyone. Well, what I’m about to tell you might at first sound like a little TMI, but I want to talk with you about it because my guess is you struggle with this too. I think everyone does… Ready? Here it is…I hear voices. Not bizarre voices, telling me to do bizarre things…but I gotta tell you…
As we begin this year, I’m preaching about what I said last week, my church vision, that (slide 2) “Mauldin First Baptist is a loving, multigenerational family, where the love of God leads us to share Jesus, serve others and make new disciples.”
My vision, hope it becomes yours, begins and empowered by our love for God, leading to loving others, think it would be pretty hard to read about Jesus in the scriptures and argue against this, that the most important thing, love God with all heart, soul, mind and strength, love neighbors as yourself…
I’m not making any new year’s resolutions. But I do have one thing in mind that I’m trying to do this year that is very clear… and it is found in this verse we’re about to read. This is a verse that God has laid on my heart, for me personally, but also for our church, not saying church theme for year, but wouldn’t be a bad one, but really, the idea here is to come back to what’s important, where our focus needs to be, really for us as followers of Jesus, that this is critical for all of us.
