Fine-Tuning Your Life - Part 4 ~~ Making Your Church A Better Place to Go – B

Fine-Tuning Your Life ~ Part 4
Making Your Church A Better Place to Go – B

By Pastor Gary Wayne

I want to cover three areas in this series on fine tuning your life.
• Making you Home a better place to be.
• Making your Church a better place to go.
• Making your community a better place to live.

Review from last week - Who invented Church?
When Jesus said, “I will build My church,” was He referring to what takes place on Sunday mornings?
“We don't go to church; We are the church!”
Servants are motivated by wages, but what motivates sons? Relationship with the Father – a desire to please the Father.
Being a part of making church a better place to go (not just referring to Sunday morning service) should flow from my understand that as a son or daughter of Father, I give myself to His passions.
So how plugged into church I am can show whether I have the heart of a servant or a son.

Text: 1 Corinthians 3:6-15, Psalms 127:1

From our texts, we can see that a person can busy themselves building for God, yet it not be what God wants – doing ministry, but not God’s way.
So to make our church a better place to go – where do we start?
Ministry has to come from being in the presence of God.
Our foundation of why we do what we do has to come from relationship.

When it comes to Christian activities, why do we do what we do?
We need to use the Great commission to align my life with God’s purpose for me and my ministry. (Mat. 28:16-20 Mar.16:14-20)
We don’t need busy work – we need Spirit inspired progress.

Often a church’s activity can be based on tradition instead of what the Spirit is doing.

What motivates us? The Father’s heart, or our feelings?
What are you passionate about?
“The passions we pursue will rule our life.”
“The passions we give ourselves to will rule our home.”
“The passions we give ourselves to will rule our destiny.”

What part of the great commission do you own?
As a Christian, that should consume me, not just an option I give myself to.

Don Johnson’s message - What moves the God of the universe?
What moved Jesus.
Mt 9:36 “But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.”
People in need. A son’s heart toward Father lives from this.

Are God’s priorities my highest priority in life?

I want to share a couple of responses from the question we sent out in our survey.
“If I wanted to make my church a better place to go, I would _______.”

Pastor Gary has said many times that we can draw a circle around us to invite the Holy Spirit. I think the same circle can be drawn to envelop the Church building, not only on Sundays, but to be there permanently. I believe within that circle our focus should be on God and God only, not permitting anything like politics to break that focus.
The Bible clearly illustrates that God is a jealous God, let's not, even in a fractional way, compromise this.
Outside the Church let freedom ring, he gave us a brain and he expects us to use it.

Deep question. This is what I have been seeking to do and will continue to learn to do as I work on this:
....I would... seek to prepare myself in advance to be full of the Holy Spirit and overflowing so when I arrive at church I can overflow/pour into others. I do not go to church to get but to give. I decide I am going to church to be a change agent. At any time I might need to change atmospheres if needed and be a spiritual doorkeeper. I seek to change/help people to grow in the spirit and seek to disciple others. I will help others see what God’s vision for their life might be. I seek to help others love prayer and hunger and thirst for the presence of God.

I want to make my church a better place to go....I will serve my Father and pastors in any way I can. I will be available as I can to respond, participate, lead or follow, any leading of the Holy Spirit.
I will continue to pray for all of Seeley Lake community.

Next time I address this:
That’s the topic, but there are different aspects I want to look at.
Making Sundy morning meetings better.
Making Sunday morning meetings better for visitors.
Making Sunday morning better for Children. For teens.