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A church is not brick and mortar. It is not the pulpit, the platform, or the pews. It is the people who make that church their home, the individuals within the church family. Church members give their church the reputation it has within the community. So, a few bad apples can certainly spoil the whole barrel. If the church allows someone like Diotrophes to lead, the church may suffer the Ichabod designation from God. This is the kind of church member we want to avoid becoming.

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Accountability is important in the Christian life. A great place to foster accountability is within your church family. They can keep me from doing what I ought not do, and they can keep me on the right track doing what I should. Everybody needs a church family. We encourage you, our faithful listeners, to find a church that you can call home with a group of people you can call your church family.

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Too many people think that church membership is not important. And as our culture turns more and more secular, the idea of voluntarily covenanting with one another in Christian fellowship becomes less and less essential in our lives. “Church” becomes something you go to when you don’t have anything else to do rather than the church being who we are. But as the culture moves in that direction, My Church Family becomes even more crucial to my daily life.

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When you read the Bible, do you ever think, “God is speaking right to me?” Why one passage may speak to you more than another has to do with God’s purposes for revealing Himself the way that He has. It also may have to do with the reason the writer writes. Called by God to do so, yes. Inspired by God to do so, yes. But he also hopes to stir you and move you to obedience. John is gracious enough to tell us his reasons for putting pen to paper.

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Do you ever wonder why the Bible was written in the first place? Why would God inspire so many different writers in so many different places over so many years to write down what He Himself was authoring? He gave each one of those writers a sense of purpose about the mission to which He was calling them. And sometimes we can see what they hoped would be accomplished. And then sometimes, the writer just comes right out and tells us. John does that. He gives us Reasons for Writing.

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 Despite what some cults say, Jesus did indeed claim to be God. But really, anyone could make such a claim. But no one can back up that claim other than Jesus. He provided proof throughout John, chapter 5, as verification that His claim was indeed true. May this message help you answer the question, “But who do you say that I am?”

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To read the writings of our Founding Fathers leaves us with no doubt that many of them were born-again believers who sought to found a nation upon the principles of God’s Word, the Bible, and upon the Person of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. What we believe about Who Jesus is really does matter. The question is the same one that Jesus asked His disciples: “But who do YOU say that I am?”

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The Prophet Joel saw the need for revival among God’s people in his day; do we see the need for revival among God’s people in our own day? The Prophet Joel received the promise from God that He would send a sweeping revival in the future; will we believe and trust the promise of God to send revival to His people? The Prophet Joel could see with eyes of faith God sending revival to His people; will we look with eyes of faith for God to send that revival to us? We sure do need it.

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The greatest need of the church today is not more money, not more members, ministry opportunities, not more mission outlets. The greatest need of the church today is revival. Our nation needs spiritual awakening; our churches need a revival of the presence and power and glory of God.

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 A critical spirit leads to lonely people. Don’t you try to avoid those kinds of people? We all do. But criticism is like a magnet that draws people with problems. And we all have problems, so we are all subjected to its appeal. But beware; it will leave you lonely and broken. Beware the Spirit of Criticism and let God do His soothing, healing work in your life.