Psalm 134
Come, and bless God! All you servants of God! You priests of God who worship in the sanctuary at night. Lift your praising hands to the Holy Place and bless God. In turn, may God of Zion bless you---God, who made heaven and earth.
That's right....
It's Saturday.....
And at sun down, it will be night.
We will be gathering, once again, to collectively praise God and get into his word. Our gathering will be live.
So...
In effect...it will be SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
We are blessed to be connected to so many good Celebrate Recovery groups in this area.
Seth Barber and the good people of North Glencoe Baptist hold a CR meeting every Sunday night. I gar-on-tee that you won't go wrong by being a part of this meeting. No bones, tell you the truth and show you the way meeting on recovery with God at the center of everything.Good way to close out your weekend on a Sunday night is by visiting with CR North Glencoe.
I had the privilege of speaking at CR Gadsden Christian Fellowship last Thursday night. It was my first time there and I was blown away by those folks. How shall I put this.....HIGH ENERGY. Lot's of love. People who were genuinely excited to be there. I will be going back.
Downtown Gadsden, you have CR at the Gathering. An up and coming church, the Gathering is located in what was formerly known as Open Arms International Church building. Good group of folks who just want to love on you and drop a few Jesus seeds into your life.
If your looking for a church home to connect to, you might want to consider Grace Covenant Church out in Hokes Bluff. Hokes Bluff? I know...it is a ways out there....but hey! In your old lifestyle, you didn't think about distance when you went to get your drug of choice. Why you'd move heaven and hell and parts of Attalla to get what you needed. What makes Grace Covenant worth the drive? The people....the people...the people. It is a wonderful fellowship that is brand new (well, they've been meeting for a while...but relatively new). Rannie Childress is kind of an overseer of the group and men from the Fellowship House and Rapha make up some of the congregation. Focus of the church is teaching the Word of God and learning what it means to be a part of a church family. They meet Sunday mornings at 11 a.m. I promise you....if you've never visited with them..the moment you walk in, it will feel like home.
There is a whole, new world out there where you can become a part of something greater than yourself...a community of like minded people who are hungry for God. I like how Isaiah 58 reads in the Message Bible -
God speaking -- "I will always show you where to go. I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places---firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community of people livable again."
In other words, being a believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and joining in with a group of fellow believers is all part of the process of walking out our new found recovery. This joining in helps to define who we are and what our mission is here on good ol' planet Earth. We have purpose...not porpoise (sorry Flipper!). You were born and created to be a part of God's family....I tell you right now, with every thing that is in me, you will not regret moving on with the people who make up that family.
Put down your prejudices and wrong ideas about Church. There is a whole new breed of church out there just waiting for you to become a part. Why not check it out this weekend?
God on you.....
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