Ministering When It’s Inconvenient

November 28, 2011 By nick Leave a Comment

I am re-posting this from my wife Nicki and my mother-in-law Elaine on Facebook. It appears the original post came from the True Woman blog by Erin Davis. This is a great article…

In Matthew 15:29, we find Jesus trying to rest on a mountainside. He barely sat down when a crowd of people came to Him looking to be healed. How did He respond? He healed them.

When Jesus received word that His cousin, John the Baptist, had been killed, He tried to grieve alone. But crowds of people followed Him and begged for His attention. Scripture tells… …us that instead of hiding in His grief, He had compassion and healed the sick in the crowd (Matthew 14:13–14).

On the night before Jesus was betrayed, He didn’t hide out. He didn’t run away. He spent the evening with His disciples. He even took the time to serve them by washing the mud from their feet (John 13:1–17).

If we look closely, we find an interesting pattern. We know that Jesus spent His time on earth serving others. But have you ever considered how often He ministered when it was inconvenient?

  • He served others when He was tired.
  • He served others when He’d have rather been alone.
  • He served others when He was sad.
  • He served others when He’d been serving non-stop for days and days.
  • He served others when things went terribly wrong in His own life.
  • He even served others when He knew His own death was right around the corner.

I am deeply challenged by this truth. You see, I don’t mind serving others when it’s convenient for me. I like to help out when it works into my schedule or fits into my agenda for the day. But there are lots of times when ministry is inconvenient. I’m tired. I’m stressed. I’ve got more important things to do than to meet the needs of those around me. Under those circumstances, I feel justified in giving priority to my own needs and temporarily ignoring the needs of others.

But this isn’t how Jesus lived. It isn’t how Jesus served. And it isn’t what He wants from you and me.

The reality is, serving others requires sacrifice. If we only do it when it’s convenient, we’re missing the point.

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When God Promises then Waits

November 22, 2011 By nick 1 Comment

Last Sunday, my sermon was When God Promises then Waits. I was reading this devotional today from Experiencing God Day by Day by Henry Blackaby from November 14 and it fit so well with the sermon from Sunday. Check it out, you can watch the sermon below (for some reason the audio was not recorded for the last 5 minutes of the sermon):

God is Faithful

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:24)

God never calls us to do anything without faithfully keeping His word and enabling us to do it. We are not always faithful to do what God tells us, but He remains faithful and stands by His word to fulfill what He has promised (Isa. 46:11).

When the children of Israel reached the Red Sea, they might have concluded that God had abandoned His promise to them. The sea was barring their advance, and the murderous Egyptian army was racing to overtake them! Yet God proved then, as He has ever since, that He is absolutely faithful to every word He speaks to His children.

God may have spoken to you about something in particular—a ministry in your church, the way to raise your children, or what you should do in your job. You have obeyed Him, but now you face a Red Sea experience. It seems that what you thought God wanted to accomplish is not happening. Perhaps your ministry has not been well received, or your children are rebelling, or those at your workplace are criticizing your actions. Trust in the character of God. It is His nature to be faithful. The testimony of His people throughout the ages is expressed by the psalmist, who declared: “I have been young, and now I am old; / Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, / Nor his descendants begging bread” (Ps. 37:25).

Regardless of how bleak your present circumstances are, do not lose hope. No one has ever experienced unfaithfulness on God’s part! Allow time for God to reveal His faithfulness to you. Someday you will reflect on what God has done and praise Him for His absolute faithfulness to you.

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PHAT Camp 2011 Week 2 Recap

June 20, 2011 By nick 2 Comments

If I die before I wake, my life will be complete.

I finally got to be a part of the world famous PHAT Camp last week. PHAT Camp was founded by Shane Padgett and Joshua Glymph; and I must say, both are tremendous leaders. That is evident both in the execution of their vision and through the leaders who serve beside them.

I have to admit that I was nervous leading up to the camp because Shane was sharing with me the legacy of PHAT and how God has brought so many godly young people and now leaders through the camp. I felt fortunate that I had the entire week before camp to prepare for the 5 messages I would be sharing with the students every night during the worship service. I ended up taking around 7-8 total messages just in case the Holy Spirit led in a different direction.

He did.

I ended up only using one of my pre-prepared messages and that was the one I felt missed the spot, but I didn’t feel at liberty to share anything different, so I trust that the Holy Spirit used what I felt was a fumble for his purposes. The Holy Spirit showed up powerfully on Tuesday night, it is a really long story, but with less than an hour to prepare for that night’s service, I felt he laid around four verses on my heart with no time to prepare any notes or thoughts, just Scripture and the impression that a lot of students are not fully surrendering their hearts and lives to Jesus because they’ve surrendered their hearts to sexual immorality. I’m not sure what the Holy Spirit had me say, I really couldn’t replicate it, but I know around 20 students chose life that night by placing their faith in Jesus and about half the rest of the students sought a leader out to repent and pray for whatever it was they were surrendering their hearts to outside of Jesus. I remember praying with one guy who just buried his head in my chest and wept. What I found just as amazing was to step back into the chapel to find the remaining students heads bowed praying for their fellow students who were seeking Jesus; and they stayed praying for a while.

I’ve seen emotional spiritual highs in youth services/camps/retreats before and from my experience, I don’t think this was emotional for most of the students, I believe the Holy Spirit genuinely spoke to them and drew them to himself. There was nothing I could have said or done that night to work in those students lives, how do you talk about sex and 20ish students get saved? That’s God. Tuesday night once the chapel lights were turned out and everything shifted back down the hill to the camp, I couldn’t help but to feel overwhelmingly unworthy to have even stood on that stage that night. For the rest of the week I truly feared standing in the way of what the Holy Spirit wanted to do in the rest of camp. It is truly a sobering reality to know how powerful the Holy Spirit is and how feeble I (mankind) is, what a huge responsibility it is to stand before God’s people to preach HIS Word with such sinful lips and a wicked heart. Tuesday night brought a whole new perspective to my life when it comes to being accountable to preaching the Gospel.

It was a huge honor to be with not only the students at the camp but the leaders as well. It is a joyful thing to be around so many gospel-centered leaders. I have always been challenged to be more passionate in my relationship with Jesus and to love him more when I am around guys like Will Clark, Drew Hall, Shane Padgett and Hank Murphy. I really love those guys and appreciate their heart’s for Jesus. It was great to meet so many great new people as well, people I can’t wait to stay connected with and watch Jesus use in tremendous ways. It was also a huge honor to serve Jesus beside Hank Murphy and his band. Truly anointed.

I walked away from camp excited about our future as a global Church. God continues to show me that we have a passionate generation of students who are going to transform this world through the transforming message of the gospel. I’ve seen it in other student ministries recently as well, and week 2 of PHAT Camp has continued to persuade me! The students of Grace and Greenbrier are special and God is going to use those who surrender their heart to living their life for the glory of God  for some amazing things.

Will you join me in praying for these students as they settle back into normal, everyday life that they would continue to remember that transformation is a process and to keep pressing forward despite the circumstances in life they will face in the days, months and years to come?

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Was Osama Bin Laden Evil?

May 5, 2011 By nick 1 Comment

Was Osama Bin Laden Evil? This is the question Joy Behar presented to a priest, an imam and a rabbi. See what they have to say in this short video:

  • He was not born evil?
  • He was not evil, only his actions?
  • He was only evil if his intentions were bad?
  • Really?
  • Were these the greatest “theologians” they could find for the show?

Although I disagree with the Rabbi’s opinion that Osama was not born evil, in the beginning of the video he at least got one thing right in the end of the video when he stood up against moral relativism declaring that intentions do not matter, even if we disagree in our religious ideals and theologies, we all still have the 10 Commandments which give a universal moral code. I don’t believe morality will save you or give you right standing with God, but the commandments do give all mankind a code in which we can apply in our interaction with each other and with God.

What about Isaiah 64:4? We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

Or

Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

So…what’s your thoughts? Was Osama Bin Laden evil?

 

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Removing the Labels

March 31, 2011 By nick Leave a Comment

Don’t you realize that all of you TOGETHER are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? God will destroy anyone who destroys THIS temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you [together] are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

I believe this verse is powerful. It really could change a lot of Christians…even myself at times.

I wonder if you’ve ever allowed these verses to speak for itself without trying to apply it in a way you’ve heard it taught or presented. The verse really does speak for itself, no commentary is needed, however I’ll inject a few notes of my own.

It’s real easy for us to speak poorly of and act against those who we don’t agree with, however, this is our way of “destroying” those people who along with us make up the temple of God. Yes, I believe we can have different opinions and we can debate those opinions, however there is a fine line in debating opinions and attacking and destroying another person, whether publicly or privately (gossip).

The word TOGETHER means this…Anyone who places their faith in Jesus for salvation and shares the same Spirit that lives within you (us). This means, whether you like it or not, the temple is made up of…

  • Those people who prefer a more traditional form of worship
  • Those people who prefer a more modern form of worship
  • Those pastors who have fallen in moral sin, yet have repented.
  • Those who are legalistic
  • Those who you think are more Conservative Christians
  • Those who you think are more Liberal Christians
  • Those Christians who are divorced
  • Those Christians who drink alcohol
  • Those Christians who smoke
  • Those Christians who don’t read your preferred version of the Bible
  • Those Christians who don’t listen to your preferred style of music
  • Those Christians who _____________ (fill in the blank with the thing that drives you crazy when you see it coming from a Christian or the person you would put quotations around when referring to them as a “Christian”)

Christianity does not come from putting your faith in Jesus and being a Republican. Christianity does not come from putting your faith in Jesus and going green. Salvation comes through faith in Jesus alone (Ephesians 2:8-9), not through some religious mathematics.

We like to label people and it drives us crazy when Scripture erases those labels. Paul said TOGETHER (all those who have placed their faith in Jesus alone for salvation) we make up the Temple of God.

I think the warning is just as strong. Those of us who attempt to destroy (corrupt or defile) another believer who makes up the Temple of God runs the risk of being destroyed (corrupted or defiled) ourselves. I don’t find it strange that many Christians have been caught in the same sins they attack other Christians for falling into. It only proves the truth of these verses.

I love what Colossians 3:13 says and wish I could master it:

Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

What if we we’re for each other rather than against each other? What if we saw each other as brother and sister rather than the label we’ve chosen? What could the Temple of God do if we were united rather than divided?

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180Weekend at TrueNorth Church Recap

March 21, 2011 By nick Leave a Comment

I had the opportunity this weekend and on Wednesday to participate in a movement of God.

A couple of months back Adam asked my friend Shane to speak for TrueNorth Church’s 180 Weekend for their students. Shane was not able to speak because his student ministry at Greenbrier Church was also hosting a similar weekend with their students, but Shane gave Adam my name.

The Theme for 180 was Collide, so I went to their normal Element mid-week service to set things up and give a preview of the weekend. I left on Wednesday really impressed with the genuine worship from both the middle school and the high school, I also left feeling a little nervous. These kids are special and I felt like I may end up hurting what God was trying to do rather than help. After all, the previous two weeks have been CRAZY at home, at work and New Passion. I worked 52 hours the week before 180 at my normal job not including my second job pastoring New Passion and my primary job of husband and dad. I was facing 6 messages between Wednesday and Sunday, so I had no idea what to expect, and for most of the week I just wanted to just stop and shut my eyes. At times I didn’t feel like I had 100% to give this ministry and this special weekend. Of course, God is sovereign and he can use a donkey if he wants to, so I knew He was in control of the weekend.

I thought it was funny to learn that Cliff Jennings was leading worship. I have never heard of Cliff, so I had never met him, however, he is the Worship Leader at Stevens Creek Church in Grovetown. They meet just up the road from us, so here two Grovetown ministers were going to lead at TrueNorth (Come to find out his dad is Gene Jennings, the Executive Pastor at TNC). It’s funny how God puts things together. Let me add right here. Stevens Creek is blessed with a great worship leader, he’s almost as good as Jonothan :) – I got to talk with Cliff for a little bit after the final session, he’s a great guy, and Stevens Creek is blessed to have him.

All I can say is I felt the presence of God strongly at the Blok. A few students shared with me a little of what God was speaking to them from the weekend. If God so chose to use my feebleness, I am truly blessed and thankful.

I have a special place in my heart for North Augusta. My wife and her family are from there, my kids spend the weekends at my mom-in-law’s house there, I lived there for a while, went to school and church over there, and I eat lunch there sometimes. I’ve heard for several years that God is doing something great through TrueNorth, and now I’ve experienced it first hand. I heard things continued over into the Sunday service as well. I cannot wait to watch and see what God does next as they prepare to move onto their new property and continue to take the gospel to the community.

I can only pray that God ignites a fire in New Passion as he has in TrueNorth. Their people are excited, passionate, and the love of Jesus flows through them. I know that God is using their pastor Steve and youth pastor Adam as well as their other leaders greatly. I hope God does the same in Grovetown through New Passion and Stevens Creek what he is doing through TrueNorth.

P.S. We have a bright future. I’ve had the privilege to meet, speak to, and hear from a lot of local students over the last 4+ years, and Jesus has won their hearts and they are going to transform this world like we’ve  never seen before. I just know it!

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Love Wins by Rob Bell, My Thoughts and Opinions

March 15, 2011 By nick 11 Comments

I love Rob Bell and all of my friends who agree with him and the views that he proposes in his new book Love Wins which releases today. However, I disagree with Rob Bell and I would have to disagree with my friends who agree with the views he proposes in his new book. However, despite my disagreement, Love should Win among us all, and we should not allow our disagreements, no matter how deep they are to divide our love for one another. The moment your beliefs steal your love your beliefs becomes your god.

(UPDATED) Note: I have started reading the book, but am not finished, so far everything in the post stands true. I HAVE NOT read Rob Bell’s new book. I am was solely basing my opinion on three things: 1) The reviews from supporters of Rob Bell’s book and the reviews from non-supporters of the book (overall, the reviews agree on what’s being said on the content, but the disagreement comes in the beliefs of the theology and subject matter). 2) Rob Bell’s own views expressed in his interviews. 3) The pre-video released by Rob Bell to promote the book. 4) The theology of Universalism (in general)

Here are some of my major disagreements and initial thoughts on the subject. I’ll start with the most top disagreements in case you stop reading :)

The Chasm

No one can disregard the parable by Jesus, because it’s Jesus talking. I hear people all the time wanting to disregard words by Paul and others because it wasn’t Jesus, however this Scripture is from Jesus, so it carries a lot of weight.

Luke 16:19-31 is the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Why is this so important to Rob’s new book, Love Wins? Well, Rob said himself that he does not believe that Hell is locked from the outside, rather some people create Hell here on Earth while they are other people’s Hell. He also expressed views that painted Hell as a temporary place, a time-out, if you will. To Rob and his supporters it is a place that people choose to go until they are willing to view God for who he is and at that point, because Love Wins, they are free from their Hell. For Rob, Hell is not a permanent place.

Yet, the Bible and Jesus refute this view in Luke 16:19-31. In this parable the rich man goes to Hell and is in torment. He is suffering to the place where he requests that Abraham would send Lazarus to him to just give him a drop of water. Abraham refuses and says that Lazarus is with him being comforted while the Rich man was there in torment. He expresses even if they wanted to, they couldn’t because there is a great chasm separating them.  The rich man then requests for Abraham to send someone from the dead, like Moses, to WARN his family of the pending torment of Hell.

There are three main issues here that must be focused on:

  1. The rich man being in torment would have done anything and everything possible to get out of Hell being in the anguish and torment (flames) that he was in. He would have no problem at this point seeing God for who he really was and repenting to leave Hell.
  2. Abraham says that there is a great chasm separating the two places and neither groups can get to each other even if they wanted to. This is the most destructive truth to Rob’s viewpoint of an open door Hell.
  3. Notice the rich man did not ask Abraham to send him from Hell. He knew there was no escape and no way to leave, or he would have. He asked that Abraham would send someone from his side.

I don’t believe Rob leaves so many questions open ended because he is genuinely asking the question for his own benefit. He is asking the question to point people in the direction he believes, as well, he is painting a picture of those who disagree with him as being hateful towards him and attacking him. This is not true. I disagree with him but I am not attacking him. However, since we are asking questions, shouldn’t this one be asked and answered? What about the Chasm?

Hyper-Calvinist without the Calvinist

The Hyper-Calvinist that I know do not believe in evangelism. Why? Because in the end they believe that God’s elect are going to be chosen regardless and through His own means God is going to redeem those who he has predestined to be saved. Rob Bell’s view is not much different, he’s just promoting that EVERYONE is predestined because Love Wins and it would be unjust for God to allow anyone to go to Hell if he is love. There’s only one problem with this reverse Hyper-Calvinism and with Hyper-Calvinism while we are at it:

Romans 10:13-15 – Not only must a person have faith in Jesus alone for their salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9), but they must call on the name of the Lord to be saved. Romans goes on to say that how can someone believe on a person they don’t know about and how can they know about someone they’ve never heard about. Beautiful are the feet of those who go and share the Good News of Jesus. This would be a moot point if in the end, someone can make a final decision that they were wrong this entire time and they need to believe on Jesus for their salvation. The need for the message of the Good News would be pointless and void because in the end, everyone (or for the Hyper-Calvinist, the elect) will be saved. Basically this view is saying we can be lazy and silent about Jesus because in the end Love Wins anyway.

Martyrs and Missionaries Must Be the Stupidest People on the Planet

If Love Wins as Rob Bell sees it and everyone ends up in Heaven anyway, then he just made Martyrs and Missionaries the stupidest people on the planet. Why would anyone risk their life or give up their life preaching a message that in the end doesn’t matter much for the people of other faiths who have good intentions, but just doesn’t happen to use the name Jesus when they refer to their god? I work for a church who supports a lot of missionaries. Some of these missionaries cannot have their names or locations printed in any material or posted on the internet because their lives are in such danger. What stupid people! Pack-up and come home, live life, have fun, enjoy every minute of it, and let God woo those people in the end.

How does this view of an empty or an open, non-permanent Hell, with an afterlife decision opportunity not diminish the gospel and the work of Christ here and now? How does this view not diminish the commission of Jesus himself to “go make disciples?” Do those of us who are able to lead people to Christ here and save God that extra work get some kind of prize in the end? Rob’s view, in my humble opinion, just keeps unraveling for me.

Hints of Mormonism

I guess if other religions despite their belief in the actual Jesus is acceptable in the end, then, it is also okay to grab a few ideas from the Mormon religion. From my understanding, Mormons believe that there are second chances after death as well. Of course there is some temple work that has to be done on the part of the persons loved one, but regardless, death is not the end, it is the beginning. People who hold a traditional view of the gospel message is being painted by Rob Bell as being closed minded and unwilling to accept new ideas about a progressive faith, he even gives a slight pity party to say how people hate him and are attacking him, which I have not seen. However, I believe what I believe because I have studied it out #1 for myself and it stands firm on Scripture. The question I have is this, “Where is there any hint of a second chance in the afterlife to choose Jesus or to see God for who he really is, anywhere in the Bible?” “Where did Jesus even hint at such a possibility?” Rob says he wants to have a conversation on these issues, so in my conversation, I would like these questions answered.

The Bottom Line

It wasn’t a day after the first blog popped up declaring that Rob Bell may be a Universalist, that those from Rob’s viewpoint started saying that people like myself only believe in Hell because it gives us permission to hate our enemies and that we have a twisted viewpoint to want there to be a full Hell, etc. I’ve never heard something  more outrageous in my life!!! I believe in a literal, hot, tormenting Hell, and I don’t believe there is a second chance after this life to choose Jesus. That’s why the reality of Hell must be preached here and that’s why the gospel must be preached now. I don’t want a full Hell, but that’s what I believe it will be if we become silent about Jesus and the gospel and if we start telling people to live life to its fullest now because in the end there is no way a loving God is going to let them go to Hell, so they can choose Him anytime they want. If I hated my enemy, this is the message I would preach. If I hated my enemy, why would I want to warn them about Hell? See how dumb that accusation is?

Love Wins because God loved a world full of people who took the perfect gift he gave us and we rebelled against him and through our sin we broke his ideal plan. Through this love of His, he sent the perfect sacrifice through his son, Jesus, so that all those who believe in him, would be redeemed. It would be disgraceful to call this act by God hate and it would diminish God’s power to say it’s not good enough and that we need an after-death grace period because the time on Earth He gave us was not long enough. Rob Bell wants to talk about Hell limiting the power & love of God, however, saying that a person cannot come to faith in the lifespan God gave them, would diminish God even more.

I may be totally wrong about Rob Bell’s views on this matter once I read the book, but based on his own answers in his interview and the reviews from those who both agree and disagree with him, I believe I am completely accurate. If I find I am wrong I will apologize and correct it as emphatically as I have dismissed it.

**Also, please note, I have not and am not attacking Rob Bell or those who agree with him, I have simply pointed out some of the areas where we disagree, Love Wins**

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Why I Choose to Believe the Bible by Voddie Baucham

December 2, 2010 By nick Leave a Comment

This is excellent! Take the time to watch all 5 videos…

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I’m Not Alright

October 22, 2010 By nick 3 Comments

“There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus…” John 3:1-2

I’ve heard various stories about why Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. Personally I believe it was because he was curious about Jesus, and as the Scriptures point out, it was very evident that God had sent him to teach them a new way of finding right standing with Himself. However, Jesus was not popular with the Pharisees. In order to be accepted by his own people Nicodemus had to seek Jesus out in private.

I love the song “I’m Not Alright” by Sanctus Real. I never had permission to not be alright for a long time as a Christian. Over the last several years things have changed and now I feel free to not have it all together. I understand that my goal is to become more like Jesus, but as long as I am alive, I will always battle my fallen nature. I just wonder, why is it that the church has created an environment where people have to act like Nicodemus did? Why is it that people don’t feel free to walk through our doors and freely say without the fear of judgment, “I’m Not Alright!“

  • I wonder how many lives would have been saved if people could say, “I’m Not Alright” and not be preached at?
  • I wonder how many pastors, who eventually ended up giving into moral failure, would still be preaching if they could have said, “I’m Not Alright” and not be shunned or abandoned?
  • I wonder how many teenagers would have grown up and raised their families in church if they would have had the freedom of saying, “I’m Not Alright” without being branded in a youth ministry?
  • I wonder how many people could have received hope and grace or found redemption if they had the freedom to say, “I’m Not Alright!“

Why is the church afraid to let people be broken and to seek answers? The honest truth is, growing up, at least 85% of the answers I received to my questions, were essentially “Just trust me” or “That’s what the Bible says” (without a Scripture reference or with a Scripture reference out of context). Could it be we are afraid for people to ask questions to seek healing for their brokenness because our faith and our beliefs have been based on what we were told to believe, so beyond that, we really don’t know how to extend help to people? We don’t have answers because we only know what we’ve been told to know?

I received a free copy of Anne Jackson’s new book “Permission to Speak Freely” at the 2010 Blogger’s Meet-up a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t read the book, in fact I forgot I had it until I started writing this post, but it sounds like it is full of stories from people who never had permission to speak freely in church. I look forward to reading it, Anne’s last book, Mad Church Disease was phenomenal!

Check out the video below and then join the conversation: “Why does it seem the church has created an environment where people cannot be honest when things are “Not Alright?”

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What’s Weird About Our Modern Church? By Francis Chan

October 19, 2010 By nick Leave a Comment

Here is just a little snippet of the message from Francis Chan at this year’s Catalyst Conference: (This is worth seven minutes of your time)

Where would your life as a Christian align itself in comparison to the New Testament Christians we read about in the Bible?

Where would our churches fall in with the New Testament Church as recorded in Scripture?

All great things to think about. Thoughts?

Thanks to Jeremy Ownby for pointing out this video was available on Facebook

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