Monday, May 17th, 2010

Expand the Kingdom

The title of this blog is really what I Believe God is doing within the RIDGE Church and to use that phrase I often use once more.  “God is messing me up with it in a Good way.”  See here is what I mean!  We are doing Great things in our ministry and Christ is changing lives!  That is Awesome!  But here is the thought … we can do more!  We must Expand His Kingdom!  Important not OUR Kingdom – His!

See one thing I see happening in so many churches today is we get comfortable, complacent, and feel entitled that Our Church should be for us to enjoy.   While we must certainly enjoy and love our church, we must remember it is not “ours” it is His.  And the Kingdom we are building must never be ours … He has each person here for a purpose and a plan in order to further His Kingdom on earth.  After all we pray in the Lord’s prayer, “Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven!”

Consider today  How can you build His Kingdom?  Is it witness to a friend?  Is it listening to someone who is hurting?  Is it starting a ministry?  Is it being a part of another ministry?  There are countless numbers of ways each of us can build His Kingdom today and frankly we don’t do it by sitting in church on Sunday.

Working for the Kingdom

PJ