Board Meeting March 2024

Devotional

John 5:1–7 (ESV)

1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Buh-thez-duh, which has five roofed colonnades.

3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

Now this is a well known story. One we probably heard in sunday school before.

There were numerous people who were sick and they waited for an angel to come down at a certain time to stir the water and they believed whoever stepped into the pool first,

after the stirring of the water would be made well.

The phrase that got my attention was when Jesus came and asked the man “Do you want to be made well”?

Now do we believe God for the impossible? Do we believe God still does the supernatural, that God still heals? Well we should...

Compare this man with the church of today? Several churches aren’t spiritually healthy and it’s because of their choice and their own will. God has already given them everything they need.

But like this man by the pool who had been laying there for 38 years old, they have lost hope. Even in their sickness and disease, they are content in their condition.

This is a lesson for Mount Carmel to learn. To not be content with the condition we are in.

Do we want to be made well and grow in Christ and reach the lost?

We can’t go around and say “Well this is just who Mount Carmel Church is”

We cant become a church that is in maintenance mode and not missionally minded.

Pastor’s Report

Review of “Casting the Vision” Questions.

-More activities for youth and children

-communication and letting others serve

-acknowledging others(new people and those who always come) and not “rushing in and rushing out”

Permission to recommend edits to the church constitution with “fresh eyes”