SERIOUSLY...

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So I got this phone call the other day from a pastor who was deciding to continue supporting Brother Kim, you know the Brother Kim who sold everything and left everything to move to a communist nation to feed starving children and adults, both physically and spiritually, that Brother Kim. These were the questions this pastor asked me...
  1. What version of the Bible do we use
  2. What kind of music do we play
  3. How do we view sanctification
  4. Are we on the left or right (whatever the heck that means)

Questions he didn't ask me...

  1. How many souls have been saved the past year
  2. How many people have been baptized
  3. How many lives have been salvaged by the Gospel
  4. How many churches are you planting

SERIOUSLY! I almost couldn't believe this phone call. Here was a church deciding to continue supporting Brother Kim not based on how many souls are being saved and fed physically AND spiritually (BY THE WAY HE DID NOT ASK ONE QUESTION ABOUT BROTHER KIMS MINISTRY), or how many leaders were being developed in these communist nations, SERIOUSLY! Are you kidding me?

Then I got to thinking, how many of Christians jump ship never asking the new church

  1. How many souls have been saved here in the past year
  2. How many people have been baptized here
  3. How many lives have been salvaged by the Gospel here
  4. How many churches has your church sacrificed to birth

SERIOUSLY! I believe it is this attitude that makes God throw up! SERIOUSLY, you are deciding to support a man who sacrificed everything based on what we wear to church? SERIOUSLY, you will leave a church that is seeing lives forever changed, to sit in a church where you are more comfortable? SERIOUSLY you'll let kids and adults starve pysically and spiritually because of a Bible version? SERIOUSLY, you would rather go to a church and soak it in, then stay in a church and pour it out! SERIOUSLY! SERIOUSLY?

Hey Mr pastor man if Jesus comes back today I don't think the questions you're asking, He will be asking, THINK ABOUT IT! To My GRANITE family I am so proud of you, and honored to serve with you and by your side, the stakes are too high for us to seek to be comfortable. Jesus told us to DIE TO SELF, and to TAKE UP A CROSS.

SERIOUSLY, lets do this for Jesus, eternity hangs in the balance for those close to us and far from God. To my pastor friend in the Mid-West who has been hurt by those leaving the church because of your vision, remember the vision is not for sale, remember we need to focus of the LOST WHO ARE NOT HERE, not catering to the already committed. SERIOUSLY!

To my GRANITE leadership team, lets help people down from their HIGH-CHAIRS, hand them a towel and lead them to die to self and serve like Jesus died to self to serve. SERIOUSLY!

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