Mission Eastern Carolina

Sharing the vision of arousing the people of God in Eastern North Carolina to live the AD 30 church life in the 21st century

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I serve 75 churches and missions as Associational Missionary, married to my sweet Gracie with three great kiddies

Thursday, June 22, 2006

So they don't listen to you?

I just don't get it. You are a God called person, you have been given a message from God and you deliver it as faithfully as you can. The result is, you get ignored, you may even get attacked for being insistent that people listen.
You find yourself between the pressure of knowing that God has a word that He wants the people to hear and their resistance to hear it.
In Stephens sermon to the "rock in the pocket" congregation in Jerusalem, he called on them to remember Moses. He reminded them that Moses had tried to liberate Israel and they refused to hear him. In fact they insulted him. Moses said,(in my loose interpretation) "I don't get it, I am trying to do them a favor, I am speaking the Word from God and they refuse it and even attack my integrity."
Here is just a thought for those of us who find ourselves there from time to time. We are not God, we are not even God's replacement. We are His messengers. Our task is not to get people to do what God wants them to do. Our task is to tell, encourage and pray. When we assume the role of God and press for results, we will get discouraged and most often angry at the people. So, lets just tell them what God has told us (and we will take it for granted that we are keeping close enough to Him so that what we are saying is from God actually is) and then chill out. Let's, be His messengers and their shepherds. Let's not take their response to God's desire for them personally. Let's not associate their response to our failure or success. In fact we might actually see more response if people sense from us that we really do believe that we are just messengers and that we actually do trust God from that point on.

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