Revivals are overrated

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Revivals are over rated…

I asked my church yesterday who would love a revival , who would love to see another 3-500 people come to church next Sunday…

I then began to point out to them and say ok, we need you four to help park cars, we need you 12 to help in childrens church and we need you 6 to help in the nursery, we will need another 8 to help disciple, and at least 20 more in our worship team, we will need 8 more in the kitchen to help with coffee, donuts, clean up…we will need 10 more to come during the week and help clean… Hey Church is hard, what does Christ have to say… 

 

Matt. 16:18 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

 

 

We need to understand THREE fatal flawS in our Christian world… and that is 

#1 yes our Nation was founded as a christian nation, but it does not nor will it ever take the place of the church. Our country can become socialistic, world dominated and even completely under the regime of another country… but changing the world is not dependent on the USA and its freedoms

WORLD CHANGE IS BASED ON THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE CHURCH.

 

#2 understanding that a Christ centered church has a much greater impact on the world for the kingdom of God than a super Christian. 

 

#3 YOU ARE THE CHURCH…. 

What do I mean? It is your job as the church to reach, lead, serve, give, produce, heal, sacrifice, defend, cast out…

It is not the Pastor’s, evangelists, teachers, preachers, missionary’s… 

 

 

V. Upon this Rock I will build my church…

build: Founded upon, encourage, edify, literally build.

 

Let me spell it out for you… Labor, hard work, hands on, boots on the ground. sweat toil and tears… no need for Blood, jesus already shed his… but you know what I mean. 

 

Jesus did not say upon this rock (the knowledge of knowing I am the Messiah - this is what a revival is based on, that Jesus is who he said he was) he did not say that upon that understanding a revival would build his church, it would manifest out of thin air and some prayer, NO it takes hard work. It takes labor… remember when Christ said the harvest is white, it is ripe… but pray for laborers. 

 

706 survivors – 473 empty seats 

Maybe you know the story of the Titanic. But did you know that when the ship had sunk there were hundreds of people in the icy waters and there were plenty of seats still left in the life boats. But they never went back to rescue those that were drowning freezing to death. They were safe, no need to work. 

 

The hole in the titanic was 6 square feet total. About the size of me, or close to most of you… if I am not laboring for the church i am just a hole and lives will be lost!