Do you have the same kind of pride for your Christian heritage as you do for your country, family, etc.? What are elements of Christianity that are not well taught? How could these items be incorporated into an exhibit suitable for a museum?

This Sunday @ FBC-Humble Area, the church was doing a series about the other 6 days of the week.  They spoke about how usually when people think of the ministry, they think of the pastors, the church (inside), the missionaries, and other people in “religious fields of work”.  But we are all missionaries in all areas of work and God can use anything in our hands to accomplish His work.  Some points the pastor made were:

• All of the Earth is holy ground - and we should realize that and act appropriately.  Your office, the streets, your school, everywhere is Holy Ground.
• You first serve God, then you serve your Boss.  (Col. 3:17,23)
• God will use whatever you have in your hands, if you let him.
• The same Spirit that works in the great prophets and teachers (of yesterday and today) is the same Spirit that does a work in you - but you have to submit to Him.

Submitting to God in your workplace, where ever it might be, will change:

• your purpose (Acts 13:22-36),
• your product - to be of better quality (Psalm 139- the quality of God’s work),
• your place (becomes holy),
• the way you view people,
• your platform (not our right to do work or share the gospel, but God’s work in us)
• your posture (to servant hood)

I am encouraged by this and plan on seeing Brink’s (my place of work) as God’s Holy ground.  The pastor encouraged us to even remove our shoes and pray before entering the building (”Lord, this may not look like a holy place, people may not act like it is Holy, even myself, but I pray that my perspective would change and I would serve you in this place today.  Let my work for you be whole hearted and may I glorify you in word and deed.”)  I did this today, and I will continue to.  I am excited to see how God can work through me at Brinks.

I encourage you to do so also.  Have you seen God work in your workplace?  Do you submit your work to Him?  I admit it is so easy to get caught up in the actual work, and living life than to see it as God’s work.  What is your perspective?

ps. you can view “The Other 6 Days” here.  I didn’t see First Baptist’s sermon online, but you may check iTunes for a podcast.

We hear this statement in church settings all the time…”My wife is my first ministry.”  Is this a biblical statement?  Why or Why not?

It seems to me that church denominations are anti-Biblical and in fact exactly what Jesus did not want us to do.  I understand that there are differences in Theology between, oh say a pentecostal and a baptist par example, but it seems that the rivalries, etc. between the denominations create uneeded redundancies.   Why do we waste time with multiple churches of multiple denominations on one street in Dallas when there are entire cities in europe without a solid evangelical, Gospel preaching church?….clearly there is something wrong with this picture.