I listened to a Matt Chandler sermon today on my flight from Tacoma to Salt Lake City and was blown away by the last 5 min. If you guys want someone new to listen to then check out his podcast. Anyway, here is what he wrapped up his message with today.
"The apostle Paul says, "I pray now as always that I would not be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ". Could it be that you live in your neighborhood, work where you work, play where you play, know who you know, walk with who you walk with, because God in His predetermined plan put you there to be a herald of good news? Maybe its not an accident that you have the job that you have or that you don't have the job? Maybe where you live isn't some random circumstance, but a preordained move by the God of the Bible? We are on mission. Ladies, how many Beth Moore Bible studies are we going to do? I'm just saying, can we maybe run some of the plays instead of just studying them? Men, how many men's studies are you going to do? How much you going to study before you start to play? Everybody can talk it but nobody wants to engage anybody with it. Or at least very few of us do. Why? I mean if you're waiting until you're perfect to live life on mission, you're going to die without much mission. It's coming! Do you get this? Do you know how this ends? With the Kingdom of God established! Do you think anybody is going to give a trash how much money you have right now, how much comfort you have right now, who's cool and who's not, who drove what and who didn't, who was well liked in the neighborhood and who wasn't, do you think any of that is going to matter? No one will care, but a lot of people will be embarrassed." - Matt Chandler
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"How about running some of the plays from the playbook", that is a great analogy. I probably will use that in the next 24 hours.
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