Short and sweet

So the other day I was looking at my twitter and saw a post from a youth pastor that said "didn't have time to finish my sermon tonight for youth so going to let the kids cut my hear instead". WOW really dude.

When I read this I got pretty upset. When I look at some of the old dead pastors that I read and some of the pastors today that I look up to they all put a high standard on preaching. They put writing there sermons up there before anything. Paul himself tells us to let the deacons worry about the other things so that you can put your time into teaching the truth rightly.

This is one of the things that I feel is wrong with youth ministry today. So many youth leaders just get by by playing games and feeding students pizza and not teaching God's word. I feel that if you do not have time to study God's word so that you can teach it then it is not effecting your own life so why should it effect others.

Well my rant is over now. You can go back to doing whatever you are doing.

Amazing Video and thoughts

Piper on Suffering

Spurgeon says it the best

If you know me at all you know that I love Charles Spurgeon. The way he said things were amazing. This is a quote from him about evangelism.

Evangelism' means essentially 'sharing the good news of Jesus Christ who died for our sins and rose again, with a view to making disciples and bringing them into the fellowship of the body of Christ.

So many people think that to evangelize means to get as many people as you can to pray a sinners prayer. It's not. True evangelism is when you walk with them and help them to grow as a follower of Jesus Christ. If that is what you are doing then you are on the right track. If not you may want to ask yourself the question are you about numbers or building the kingdom of God.

Kick in the face I think.

I am going to let Spurgeon speak for himself and you will know that I agree with him.


I. First, then, WHAT ARE THE POINTS WHICH CONSTITUTE THE HEALTHINESS OF THE CHURCH AT HOME?
To begin with the most important—the true piety of an her members. A Church can never be in a sound and satisfactory state for labor, she never can be in such a. condition that God can smile upon her complacently, if she be mixed up with the world, if her sons and daughters be not sufficiently distinguished from the world to be manifestly God's people. if we take into our churches those who are not converted, we swell our numbers, but we diminish our real strength. We might need to purchase a larger church-book, we might, perhaps, be able to parade our numbers before the world, and we might even flatter ourselves with our apparent prosperity till we intoxicated our own brain, but we should be going backward when we think we are going forward. We have not conquered the world; we have only yielded to it. We have not brought the world up to us, we have only brought ourselves down to it. We have not Christianized an ungodly generation, but we have adulterated Christianity. We have brought the chaste spouse of Christ to commit fornication among the people. We cannot possibly be too strict in the examination of those who are proposed for church fellowship. I will grant you, there are methods by which bigotry may exclude a large proportion of those whom God has called, putting such an extent of knowledge as the test of Christian experience, that many of the lambs of the flock stand bleating without the fold, and are never enabled to come and partake of its pasturage. This evil, doubtless, is to be avoided. But on the other hand, it is quite possible that the fullest charity with which the mildness of our Savior's mind and the love of the Spirit can imbue us, may be blended with the sternest firmness in executing a sacred trust, and with the most prudent discretion in maintaining the purity of discipleship, when we are engaged in the acceptance or rejection of candidates for the fellowship of the visible Church. If we could to-morrow bring into the Church a sufficient number of ungodly but moral men to double our numbers, to double our subscriptions, to double our places of worship, to enable us to double the number of our missionaries, we should by succumbing to the temptation procure a curse instead of a blessing. In our purity, and in our purity alone we stand. Let us once lose our distinctive principles, let us once come back and attempt to nationalize the Church, and bring ourselves from the distinction we have sought to maintain between the Church and the world, and God's blessing will be withdrawn from us; we shall cease to be strong within, and mighty without. Oh I that God might grant to each of us, who are the pastors of the Church, that unceasing vigilance and constant watchfulness whereby we shall be able to detect the wolves in sheep's clothing, and whereby we shall be able to say calmly, sternly, yet lovingly, to those who come before us seeking communion, without satisfactory evident that they belong to the living family of God, "You must go your way until the Spirit of God hath touched your heart, for until you have received the living faith in Jesus, we cannot receive you into the number of his faithful ones."

So far all of those mega churches that just because they have a football field for a church. Numbers do not mean you have it right. I'm just saying.

What to Do?

So my wife is gone for work this week and I have been thinking a little bit about time. Charles Spurgeon never had a watch because he didn't want time to get in the way. I was thinking kind of the same thing today and looking at my week. We all the same 24 hours but we all use them in a different way. Sometimes pastors can work all day and all night and plus more. For some reason pastors think that they have to always keep going but at the same time there families are dying and so are they. Pastors if you are dying then so does your family and then the church that God has called you to lead and serve.

On your phone there is this thing called a calendar. What you need to do is take it out and put your time with God in it and then Family time and then you ministry. Don't ever put your church before you and or your family. Well men I pray that you will take this to heart and work on your time management.