LifeCHANGE with Jack Redmond

The first step of being a faith champion is that FAITH CHAMPIONS DON'T QUIT!  The world will hand you all kinds of issues and problems but when you make a decision to be a faith champion and that you will grow and do what it takes to build your faith, God will give you the strength to NEVER quit.

The elements of something are the simplest building blocks which are required to build it.  Lets look at 3 building blocks of faith: 1) A faithful God  2) God's unchanging Word and 3) The hearer of the Word.  The first 2 never change, the one that changes is the hearer!  Let's grow as hearers, absorbers and doers of the Word!

In order to exercise our faith, first we must believe that God will do something for us! The next step is beleiving that God will do something in us.  When God does something for us and in us, the next stage is believing that God will do something through us!  God first changes us and then uses us to change the world!

Faith is like a muscle.  If you use it, it grows and gets stronger.  If you don't use it, it becomes weaker and weaker over time.  Faith must also be current, yesteday's faith doesn't count today! The beginning of faith is in believing in God to do something for us.  We must believe God is our source and expect Him to meet our needs and be present in our lives on a daily basis.

We are made for community but community doesn't happen by accident! It must be intentional.  Our society and culture consumes so much of our time and energy that at the end of the day, we often just want to be left alone.  But many are living disconnected lives where parts of their emotions slowly die.  It is in community where we flourish best!

We are busier than ever and have more connections than ever but even with that, George Gallup did a study that showed Americans are some of the loneliest people on the planet!  We need real relationships that can only be built in community!

There is a cure for sin sickness and we have it!  God is not passive and neither should we be.  Jesus left the presence of the Father to bring the cure to planet earth.  We are then to bring the cure of Jesus Christ to every nook and cranny of planet earth! As individuals we can go places that the pastors in our church can't go. We can talk every day to people who may not go to a church to hear the message of the cross!

Our world is suffering from sin sickness and we have the cure! Even though we have the cure, statistics say that 90% of those who consider themselves born again Christitans, have never led someone into a personal relationship with Jesus!  This must change.  I invite you to become a greater soul winner in the days ahead!

It is God's will that none shall perish!  And God says that we are His ambassadors!  The key to effective words is effective prayers beforehand!  Many Christians have the right words but have not overcome spiritual obstacles and barriers through prayer.  Let's pray for souls and then go win them!

God has created each of us to be soul winners in our daily lives right where we work, live and play! But long before we go to people about God, we should go to God about people. Our prayers will begin to break the hardness of people's hearts long before we even speak to them about Jesus.