Living out Life with Passion, Purity & Purpose

Sunday we shared about Covenant, Communion and Community. And how all 3 are intimately related. And how all of them require a culture of Honor.   In this blog I want to focus on the aspect of Community or Family. I read a blog today talking about community and it defined what community is NOT. Community - family - houses are NOT a bunch of people who agree with everything you say. Real houses, real familes, real communites of God are people who may disagree on things - But agree that they all want to love God and love people and do both well. They learn to treat each other and their differences of opinion with kindness and empathy and curiosity. This is rare and refreshing in our world today. We believe in this hour God is raising up Restoration HOUSE as just that... a house of God, a house of family, a community of believers who honor God and honor each other. Houses need Fathers and Mothers and Sons and Daughters...  not who agree on everything  but agree on the ONE thing - JESUS. 1

  We have never had more access to Gods Word than we do today. There are unlimited versions of the Bible available on your phone, hundreds of thousands of sermons and teaching are easily accessible on TV, radio, podcast, and YouTube. There are Christians books and magazine and newsletters on every subject and Bible verse. The Word is readily available 24/7. And I would venture to say the church is not more spiritually mature.   There is a quote attributed to DL Moody “The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.”   The Word of God was not given just to increase our knowledge. It is not enough to just hear the Word at church, read it occasionally, study it sporadically and think about it randomly.   The Word should become part of us and be applied to our lives daily. There is a quote that says "Unapplied truth is like unapplied paint. It doesn't do anybody any good. The value of paint is in the application." In Matthew 22:29 J