A Devotion from Gene Perry

I Corinthians 9:19-23:
“For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.”
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Having grown up in a ritualistic church for the first 30 years of my life, and then have God save me out of that environment, it was a major change to my thinking. Even in the evangelical church God lead us, my family and I, to join, it had become ritualistic too. God in His wonderful Grace, had to come in and scatter the church, several times, so we would stop looking within and open our minds and hearts to the vast harvest, beyond the walls of the church, that is ready for harvesting.
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With the name change to BridgePoint Church and the wonderful staff and people that God has put in place here, I believe God can work in our midst, if we will continue to learn how to worship and praise Him. We are who we are because of the Grace of God. We can avoid the “Ritualistic Rut” by having a “fresh” worship time every time we meet together. We can be “all thing to all people” by continuing to offer, as we do, times of worship and praise, opportunities to feed on His Word, bible studies for all ages, opportunities to meet together for prayer, equip and challenge everyone to “Go”, get involved somewhere.
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Lastly, we need to get over the fact that it’s our time, our money and realize it’s all His and we need the wisdom and challenge from Him to use it as He directs so we truly can “Be All Things To All People, That By All Means We Might Save Some”.

Church As It Should Be – 8/8/10

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