GREATER THINGS ARE YET TO COME… “MINI R & R” Tonight!
Membership at Life House Church isn’t just a privilege but with it comes responsibility. On any given Sunday worship service you will find that we usually have 100 “visitors” in our service and around 35 members who have prayerfully stepped out and made the commitment to serve as a part of our church family. If you know anything about Life House you know that you don’t just “join and sit”. After you have prayed and sought God’s will and make that step to join Life House you must: 1. Write out your testimony. 2. Must have experienced Believers Baptism by immersion in a Baptist Church or be willing to submit to Believers Baptism at Life House. 3. Agree to the “Four Principles” of Membership at Life House which are as follows: You agree to: 1. Be faithful to Sunday Services 2. Be faithful to attend Life Groups 3. Be faithful to find a place of service in the church – one or more. 4. Be a “Store House Tither”. In order to remain a member of Life House you must be faithful in those areas. If you aren’t faithful then after counsel your name will be “dropped” from Life House Church Membership Roll. If you aren’t a member it does NOT mean you can’t come, serve, work and enjoy all the blessings of being at Life House – it just means you don’t have the rights and privileges of being a member.
One of those “rights” of being a member of Life House is being invited to any “congregational meeting” – such as tonights “MINI R & R” Meeting at 5:30 p.m. . What is “R&R”? We call it “Review and Renew” Meeting. It has been done annually but we are going to start having one quartertly – starting tonight and then every “FIFTH SUNDAY” Night. Tonight the Life House Members will worship together, share their hearts together and then I am going to be sharing some exciting news, challenging our members hearts and then close in a season of prayer. God has some “GREATER THINGS” that are soon to come and we must get ready. God is using Life House in a special way and we need to be ready to see Him open the flood gates of heaven.
It is a joy to serve as pastor of this great mission/church and I am totally excited about what I see coming. We aren’t your “typical” or “usual” Baptist Church – and we strive hard not to be! The last thing we want to do is become a “business, budget and battling” church. We don’t want to be a part of the “religious country club” that is permeating churches today. When the “constitution and by-laws” mean more than the BIBLE then the “church” is in trouble. God help Life House to keep their eyes on the Jesus and the cross. Help us never forget our mission.
Pastor James