As we approach Church Anniversary “78”, this Pastor can see in this Church a people that the Lord calls sanctified. Not because they are without fault, but because they have a relationship with Christ. Success was the Church of God at Corinth. Paul writes to the Corinthian Church to instruct and restore the Church in it’s areas of weakness. He says to them in 1st Corinthians 1:2, “Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ called to be saints,” They were set apart for the Lord, declared holy through faith in Christ’s atoning death on the cross.
The Corinthian Church had “positional sanctification” and it is quite clear from verses 4-7, they were gifted. That notwithstanding, they were in need of massive doses of God’s Word. How important it is for any Church, (Friendship included) to “grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.” The desire of the child of God is found in Psalm 119:33, 3 “Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statues; and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.”
Friendship, you are gifted saints of God. To fully fulfill our calling, to be all that God has ordained us to be “teach me the way of thy statutes”: (Sunday School, Mission, Brotherhood and Bible Study), “Give me understanding” (Prayer and Teachers meetings).
Friendship, the resources are available, in year “79”. My prayer is we will avail ourselves of that which the Father has provided that we may be what He wants us to be.
Pastor J. Amos Jones
