Christianity – Page 3 – Glimpse of Lin

We all face it at one point or another. It can be over the smallest thing and if we’re not careful, we end up letting that little frustration control the rest of the day.

Have you ever gotten frustrated when you’re writing super neatly on a paper but all of a sudden you either smudge the paper or one letter in a word comes out crooked so it throws off everything? Yeah, that frustration makes you grab the paper, crumble it and start over again and now you’re frustrated because you can’t believe you’re fussing over something so small.

Now think about life, I’m sure you’ve had plenty of moments of frustration that you can’t even count them in your hands. Guess what? I don’t have a solution for you but all I have is a suggestion; BREATHE! Your attitude about any situation you are encountering right now is going to determine how you deal with these type of situations. If you continue to stay focused on how crappy things continue to go, your sight will be clouded and it will make it that much more difficult to overcome that situation.

Ultimately, I will always encourage you to go to God and pray. Pray for peace, for understanding, for clarity and just watch God move. Don’t believe me? Try it. Still don’t believe, well then, BREATHE. As you breathe, your mind clears up and you can focus once again. But when you pray and go to God, not only will you have that clarity that breathing can provide, but you learn to lean on God rather than yourself. As you lean on God and His strength you can learn to deal with similar situations better. Stay focused, keep going, and don’t let the frustrations control the outcome of your day.

Blessings!

Many of us who serve at a church were looking forward to this Easter weekend that just occurred. Some of our churches had special service programs and Easter egg hunts for the children. This was the weekend for us to go all out on social media, in our communities, and promote Easter weekend like crazy. It really is great and incredible being able to do that to reach the community and invite people who don’t know God, but are we really looking at our reasoning behind this? Are we doing this for the numbers? Are we doing it so that we can become the next big church in our state? In our country? In the world? It’s so easy for us to emphasize the amount of people that showed up to Easter service but we need to make sure to take it a step further and follow up with what we committed to.

At every church in America at least one person attended a church that has never been to that church before, well, I assume this simply because it’s Easter and some people probably feel guilty of not going to church all year that they figured it would be a good idea to attend on “Resurrection Sunday.” So now the question is, what are we doing to build that relationship with that individual? I’m pretty sure attendance increased by a good percentage at your church, I know it did at my church, but are we taking the necessary steps this week to make disciples? Numbers are not going to matter if people don’t have a personal relationship with God. If we focus on the numbers we had this Easter Sunday and try to build from that momentum, our churches will die because of lack of discipleship. Let’s make it a goal to focus on discipleship.

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