IF IT WERE EASY...

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I HAD THE HONOR OF SPEAKING TO OVER 50 CHURCH LEADER, PLANTERS AND TEAM MEMBERS IN MASSACHUSTTES.  THE NEXT FEW BLOGS WILL BE THINGS WE COVERED AS A RESULT OF THIER TOP FIVE QUESTIONS ASKED TO ME.  I PROMISED THESE GUYS I WOULD BLOG MY ANSWERS TO THEIR QUESTIONS.

MINISTRY - If it was EASY everyone would be doing it. Did you know that in JOHN 6 there were a number of people who QUIT ON JESUS and HIS MISSION? There have always been those who rweach a certain level of committment then fing an excuse, a reason, to ABANDON, to QUIT the mission.

If you read JOHN 6:61 you will discover the seed of DESERTING CHRIST is COMPLANING. The truth is the BIBLE doesnt sayanything else about these "disciples" their story, their opportunity seemed to have dissapeared. How sad! So let me encourage you with a few thoughts.

1. COMPLAINING IS ALWAYS THE FIRST STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

2. Jesus never said our calling would be easy, what He did promise was to never leave us or
forsake us.

3. Not everyone who starts will finish.

4. John 6:64 says Jesus knows exactly whats in a person heart, dispite thier reasoning.

5. Jesus didnt beg the DESSERTERS to stay, He let them go, He honors CHOICE.

6. After the ABANDONMENT of those disciples Jesus looked at those who were left and said, ARE
YOU IN OR OUT, lets settle this now.

I love our GRANITE leadership team, but what we have been called to give our lived too, will not be easy, but it will be worth it. My prayer is that as we enter into the CHRISTMAS SEASON we will decide before hand to BE ALL IN. Lets not let anything or anyone sway us from giving our best to the KING OF KINGS and THE LORD OF LORDS!

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