GREENE STREET LETTERS: A GENERATION LOST?

Friday, September 4, 2020

A GENERATION LOST?

(Posting For Northside Baptist Church)

Good Morning! Lot of stuff going on in our old world today. By stuff, I mean unrest, strife, hatred, and violence. I remember back in the 60's when the same thing went on as a nation struggled with its identity. Taking the words "All men are created equal" and making them mean more than flowery tokens is a hard task, but somehow I think we grew a bit during that time.....in a positive way might I add. have we arrived? No, we haven't.

But there is a darker side to everyone involved in what's taking place today. We are reaping a harvest of having pushed God out of the collective conscious of our country. We have discarded the moral compass God has given to us so that we can chase the dark desires and passions of our hearts. Anything goes when there isn't an acknowledgment of God's Absolute truth. Without His truth, then whatever we truly believe becomes law to us and we act on it.

Without God's truth, we justify our behavior. Looting and burning becomes acceptable because we have been mistreated over years and years of oppression. I can do whatever I want to because I've been wronged. Kind of been parked in some verses from Judges Chapter 2.

"Eventually that entire generation died and was buried. Then another generation grew up that didn't know anything of God or the work He had done for Israel. The people of Israel did evil in God's sight."

Did you catch that? An entire generation came along, and grew up without any knowledge of God. Kind of sounds like what we've got going on in our country, doesn't it?

If ever we needed a time or revival and renewal, it is today! We have had enough religion...We have had way to much denominational bickering......We have made church into a place where we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, or upset them because they might not come back, and we really need their tithe. 

Maybe it's time to call Sin..."Sin"...
Maybe it's time we quit selling a bloodless cross for fear of offending anyone.
Maybe it's time we get on our face and cry out to God in repentance and turn our hearts back to Him.

Maybe it's just time!
God on you...

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Friday, September 4, 2020

A GENERATION LOST?

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