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Monday, August 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Working With God’s Seasons
by Craig Groeschel
Proverbs 20:4 says, “If you are too lazy to plow in the right season, you will have no food at the harvest.”
In ministry it is so important to work with God’s seasons. Instead of always wishing for the next season, we should embrace the season we’re in.
Here are a few examples of how to work with the seasons:
1. If you’re a church planter, you won’t be any more of a real church when you have a real building. Enjoy the ride in portable facilities. You’re in a special season.
2. If you’re 50 years old and not naturally a cool person, you’ll look silly trying to act and dress 28. Embrace your season and be a mentor instead of a buddy to the next generation.
3. If your church is debt free and strong, don’t pretend like everything you have is for you. During this season, your greatest calling might be to fund the next generation’s vision.
4. If you had a singles ministry that worked for 9 years, but is no longer effective, celebrate the 9 years of success. Close it down and do something different. Don’t keep something on life support once its season has passed.
Because I was 28 years old when I started Life Church, I always felt like I was the young guy with everything in front of me. I’m not the young guy any more. (It happened so fast.) Now rather than just building our church, I embrace this season of lifting the next generation to do more than I’m able to do.
How can you better embrace this season?
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate what you are doing and where. Maybe a change is in the wind and you should embrace it with the knowledge that it is God's time for you to change but maybe you need to accept the place where you are at. Consider it as you seek the will of God.
Blessings On Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Proverbs 20:4 says, “If you are too lazy to plow in the right season, you will have no food at the harvest.”
In ministry it is so important to work with God’s seasons. Instead of always wishing for the next season, we should embrace the season we’re in.
Here are a few examples of how to work with the seasons:
1. If you’re a church planter, you won’t be any more of a real church when you have a real building. Enjoy the ride in portable facilities. You’re in a special season.
2. If you’re 50 years old and not naturally a cool person, you’ll look silly trying to act and dress 28. Embrace your season and be a mentor instead of a buddy to the next generation.
3. If your church is debt free and strong, don’t pretend like everything you have is for you. During this season, your greatest calling might be to fund the next generation’s vision.
4. If you had a singles ministry that worked for 9 years, but is no longer effective, celebrate the 9 years of success. Close it down and do something different. Don’t keep something on life support once its season has passed.
Because I was 28 years old when I started Life Church, I always felt like I was the young guy with everything in front of me. I’m not the young guy any more. (It happened so fast.) Now rather than just building our church, I embrace this season of lifting the next generation to do more than I’m able to do.
How can you better embrace this season?
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate what you are doing and where. Maybe a change is in the wind and you should embrace it with the knowledge that it is God's time for you to change but maybe you need to accept the place where you are at. Consider it as you seek the will of God.
Blessings On Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Dave and Michele Vento are currently attending and are an integral part of ministry at the First Assembly of God church in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. This is an Apostolic 5 fold ministry and a hub ministry for a local, regional and world-wide outreach for the Lord Jesus Christ. Dave and Michele are part of an apostolic team that God is putting together to train the Body of Christ to walk in their giftings and calling to reach our world for Jesus Christ. They are working closely with Reverend Charles and Marian Kitner in this work for the kingdom of God.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
Monday, January 12, 2009
More on How to Get the Job Done
On January 12, 1723, Jonathan Edwards made a solemn dedication of Himself to God. It was one of the defining moments of His life. And I'll share the written vow in a moment.
Few people have left the kind of legacy that Jonathan Edwards did. He is famous for his sermons, including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, that helped spark the Great Awakening. He graduated from Yale at 13 as valedictorian. After graduating, he is said to have studied thirteen hours a day. He also served as President of Princeton.
But the thing I find most impressive is that he spent one hour every evening with his eleven children. He prioritized his family and the results speak for themselves. Of his known descendants, more than 300 have become ministers or missionaries; 120 became university professors; over 100 became lawyers; 60 became prominent authors; there are 30 judges, 14 college presidents, 3 members of congress, and 1 vice-president.
How would you like to leave that kind of legacy?
Back to January 12, 1723. Edwards gave himself to God with these words:
I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed, to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and his law for the constant rule of my obedience.
by Mark Batterson
http://www.evotional.com/
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Few people have left the kind of legacy that Jonathan Edwards did. He is famous for his sermons, including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, that helped spark the Great Awakening. He graduated from Yale at 13 as valedictorian. After graduating, he is said to have studied thirteen hours a day. He also served as President of Princeton.
But the thing I find most impressive is that he spent one hour every evening with his eleven children. He prioritized his family and the results speak for themselves. Of his known descendants, more than 300 have become ministers or missionaries; 120 became university professors; over 100 became lawyers; 60 became prominent authors; there are 30 judges, 14 college presidents, 3 members of congress, and 1 vice-president.
How would you like to leave that kind of legacy?
Back to January 12, 1723. Edwards gave himself to God with these words:
I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed, to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and his law for the constant rule of my obedience.
by Mark Batterson
http://www.evotional.com/
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
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