From Pastor's Pulpit

Are you a lion chaser? The new sermon series Pastor Kurt has started will challenge you not to run from life, but to chase after it. Sunday, Pastor talked about taking risk. Risk brings about great reward. Benaiah was a risk taker from 2 Samuel. He chased a lion into a pit on a snowy day and killed him! He killed two Moabites and overtook an armed Egyptian and killed him with his own spear. Benaiah was known as one of the mightiest of David's warriors.

Risk is faithfulness. Faithfulness is not the maintenance, status quo we often attribute it to. Seeing faithfulness in this light...as risk taking...how faithful are you? How many Spirit-led risks have you taken in your life recently? In your career, at school, with a relationship, in your finances, with your talents and gifts, and most importantly in your relationship with Christ, risk taking catapults you into the adventure God intended your life to be!

Pastor Kurt encouraged us to play offense with our lives. Be initiators, dreamers, creators, doers. The Christian walk is active and requires risk! At end of our lives, we are not concerned so much with those things we did that we shouldn't have, but those things we should have done and passed by. The sins of commission, such as lying and gossip, adultery and stealing are important to remove from our lives. We then must fill those places of our lives with doing good things. When we do nothing, when we live life in fear and discouragement, allowing opportunities pass us by, we are committing sins of omission. These are the most devastating of regrets we live with. It puts us into a lifestyle of always wishing we 'would have', 'should have'. I wish I would have spent more time with my children. I wish I would have taken that opportunity to do something new for God. I wish I had gone on that missions trip. I wish I had taken that new job. All of these areas of our lives require risk in order to adventure into the life that God has waiting for you. It's the small acts of courage that can change history!! Take a risk today!

Be sure and be in church next week as Pastor challenges us again to Chase a Lion!