{"id":1972,"date":"2015-06-19T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1972"},"modified":"2020-02-15T17:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:41:19","slug":"just-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/just-a-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;JUST A PAUSE AND A THOUGHT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jason-Nelson-I-Am-Audio.mp3\" autoplay loop><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Righteousness.gif\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1973\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Righteousness.gif\" alt=\"Righteousness\" width=\"278\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jumping-rope-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6650\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jumping-rope-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT IS CHURCH?<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Church-on-The-Move.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1974\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Church-on-The-Move.jpg\" alt=\"Church on The Move\" width=\"2208\" height=\"1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Church-on-The-Move.jpg 2208w, https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Church-on-The-Move-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Church-on-The-Move-1024x690.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2208px) 100vw, 2208px\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Church doesn&#8217;t just happen when we&#8217;re sitting in the pew. Church happens<br \/>when we reach out to those who are hungry, sick, or forgotten.<br \/><\/strong><br \/><strong>I found this to be an interesting saying. So many times I have been<br \/>confronted by individuals saying to me, &#8220;You need to come to my church.&#8221; It<br \/>becomes almost funny to say to them I am already in the only Church (notice<br \/>this is spelled with a capital letter. Astonishing how man has taken<br \/>ownership of a church. In being in the Church Christ said Go. Yet in a<br \/>church the leaders says come and sit. Christ said go and carry the love and<br \/>knowledge of God to a sin sick world. Yet the leaders of a church says come<br \/>and receive the knowledge that I have for you. I am not knocking teachers<br \/>and congregational leaders yet something is being lost in the message. Go<br \/>into all nations teaching and baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son<br \/>and the Holy Spirit that is the Christian instruction. This is God&#8217;s delight<br \/>and plan to bring His created back into a garden of everlasting salvation.<br \/>Come and sit, tell your neighbor what thus says the speaker, lose yourself<br \/>in by laws and gain a second hand understanding of the Bible and you will be<br \/>in good standing with man and on a slippery slope with God. This is a good<br \/>time to ask, What is the Church? There is only ONE! The Church is Holy, The<br \/>Church is built on unchanging Truth. The Church has no visible boundaries.<br \/>The Church does not have as its head a flesh and bone man. The<br \/>Church is a body of devoted, obedient believers who are servants of the Most<br \/>High God. The Church is built on a rock of Faith and Divine insight. The<br \/>Church is the place Christ prayed for in John 17. This is a Church of power<br \/>in which all are in one accord, one mind, one hope, one faith, one God.<br \/>Check your place and see if you are in the Church and moving along the path<br \/>of God&#8217;s plan for your Salvation or are you in a place where tradition and<br \/>the favor of man has sent you astray. To be the Church is a verb that<br \/>requires the action of service. To go to church takes you to a place to sit<br \/>and wait for that which you had when you arrived only instead of hearing the<br \/>Voice and Will of God you sit hungering for the word of a man. When you go<br \/>to church to hear the message or to hear the music. When the last song is<br \/>song and the message is done you will have received what you came to<br \/>receive. When you are in the Church service and worship fills your life and<br \/>once you have dined on the Word of God You will hunger no more and seek no<br \/>lesser food. Oh taste the Lord for He is good. Do me a favor now and next<br \/>week, next month, next year ok you got it!! Now back to that favor please<br \/>try more to be the Church than to just be content to go to a church.<br \/>Can you receive that?? <\/strong><br \/><strong>&#8220;IT IS FINISHED&#8221;!!!<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus2it-is-finished.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1951\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus2it-is-finished.gif\" alt=\"jesus2(it is finished)\" width=\"280\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/star-left-right-center.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6645\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/star-left-right-center.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1049\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1049\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1049\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/GODshowers3.gif\" alt=\"GODshowers3\" width=\"153\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong> Bond Servants<br \/>Paul, a (bondservant) of Christ Jesus, called as an Apostle. (Romans 1:1, NAS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul knew exactly what he was called to be. Do you have any idea what your calling is? When Paul called himself a &#8220;bondservant,&#8221; he was referring to one who served his<br \/>master faithfully for six years. However, in the seventh year, the Law said that he had<br \/>to be set free. Ultimately the time came when he was released, he turned back and said, &#8220;Master, I&#8217;m not serving you because I have to; I&#8217;m serving you because I want to,&#8221; then the master took him before a judge and pierced his ear, signifying that he belonged to him forever (Exodus 21:6). Sometimes we just need to look up and say, &#8220;Lord, I&#8217;m not serving You because I have to; I&#8217;m serving You because I love You. Pierce my ear, Lord. Mark me as Yours. Bond me together with You so I can never belong to another.&#8221; When ministry loses its passion, it becomes an empty profession.<\/p>\n<p>The very word &#8220;minister&#8221; is a verb, not a noun&#8212;it&#8217;s what you do, not what you claim to be. The word &#8220;servant&#8221; also referred to a third-level galley slave chained to the oar of a Roman ship. Day and night he rowed to the beat of another and whether he was in battle or in merchant service, he expected to die chained to that oar, What a picture! &#8220;And so, dear beloved brothers and sisters, it is our prayers and a plead with each of you that you give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind he will gladly accept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you think of what He has done for you, is it too much to ask?<br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/star-left-right-center.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6645\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/star-left-right-center.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Prayer-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1965\" src=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Prayer-Image.jpg\" alt=\"Prayer Image\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Prayer-Image.jpg 225w, https:\/\/crossbearersmm.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Prayer-Image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT IS CHURCH?Church doesn&#8217;t just happen when we&#8217;re sitting in the pew. 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