I Love My Churchનમૂનો

In Acts 2:41, Luke records that the church grew by 3,000 people. In Acts 4:47, he stopped trying to count because the numbers got too high. Luke records even more numbers in Acts 5:14, Acts 6:1, Acts 6:7,Acts 9:31, Acts 11:21, Acts 14:1, Acts 14:21, Acts 16:5, Acts 17:12 and Acts 28:23. Luke was either obsessed with the wrong thing or he is making the point that it is OK for the Church to celebrate with numbers.

When your church has been averaging 75 people and you finally break 100, throw a party, celebrate, get pumped!!! If your church was averaging 100 people this time last year and this year you have 150, tell somebody about it. Don’t hold back what the Lord is doing in your church! Boast in Him and His work!! If one person comes to Christ, we should celebrate!!! Heaven does, why don’t we?

We’ve got to stop allowing the world to out celebrate us. One person in your church coming to Christ is way more important than any awards show on television or any touchdown scored in any football game ever played. And yet, we allow the world to outshine us in the way they celebrate the temporary while we sit around and worry about how others may perceive the celebration.

Don’t compare what God is doing in various places or feel bad because more people received Christ somewhere else than in your church.  We are ALL on the same team!

Tell the world about Jesus and what He is doing in the church you serve. We can’t blame God for the world not knowing how “at work” Jesus is. We have to blame ourselves for refusing to talk about it, for being way more obsessed with what someone is going to say than the fact that the risen Christ literally brought someone from death to life!

Celebrate! It’s OK! Jesus celebrated, the church in Acts celebrated (and counted) and we should, too.