Online Service Options

Perry Noble

• NewSpring Church (11:15 am & 2:00 pm Sunday)

Dino Rizzo

• Healing Place Church (11am & 9pm)

Mark Beeson

• Granger Community Church (6:30pm & 8:30pm)

Tadd Grandstaff

• Pine Ridge Church (11:00am)

Troy Grambling

• Flamingo Road Church (9:30, 11:00, 12:45pm, 5:00pm)

The Poor

I’m still reading this book called Servolution by Dino Rizzo and I came across this quote today that just rocked me.

“Our understanding of the ‘the poor’ has to include any person in any kind of bondage or under any kind of oppression who needs the freedom of Christ shown to them.”

He says that is exactly what Jesus was talking about in Luke 4:18-19: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” I live in a very affluent area of the country and I have never thought of poor people like that.  For me that means that the very person who I followed this morning in their Mercedes may actually be poor.  I know that I don’t see them that way, but that is because I don’t see them like Jesus does.  We all must change the way we answer the definition of what is poor.

God today help me to see people like you see people.  Give me the heart and compassion that you have to meet their needs and to share your love with them.  God help me to have the attitude of thankfulness and not of jealousy.  God use me.

Servolution

I am reading a book called Servolution by Dino Rizzo and literally the first page got my attention which is not easy to do with my whole ADD (hey look a butterfly), what was I saying? The idea of the book is starting a revolution through serving. Serving others with no expectations of receiving anything in return. Here is a snippet from the book:

“This book is about revolution. But this is a different kind of revolution-not fueled by anger, violence, and revolt but one of compassion, love and service. This revolution has a clear mission to answer the cries of the poor, the hurting, and the forgotten and is made up of revolutionaries willing to lay down their lives to reach out to people in their cities, in their nations, and throughout the world. This is a revolution aimed at initiating change, but not by overthrowing a government; this change comes by bringing healing to a hurting world and by loving people to Christ. We call it servolution: a significant change in the course of history sparked by simple acts of kindness.”

I know for a fact that I can become a lot better in this area and I wonder could you? If so, what? What can be done to reach this community and serve this community? What ideas do you have? I have heard from some and they are amazing and I am sure I will get a chance to share those later.