Searching for direction from God..

(having looked at a basic overview of a faithful shepherd)

Now based on this overview the way that things are currently set up at FBR I cannot carry out my mandate as I am bombarded with “sermons”.

To prepare for

Sunday Morning Bible Study and

Wednesday Night Study (each one approximately 1 hour),

Sunday Morning Worship (approximately 45 minutes), and

Evening Service (approx. 25 minutes),

Men’s Bible Study (every other week),

Home Bible Fellowships (every other week),

I am utterly buried in sermon preparation.

— Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

This bogging down, of one biblical truth piled on top of another, creates two main biblical problems:

(1.) For me with my walk with the Lord (“Take heed to yourself”) and

Not being able to lead and love my family biblically.

Not being able to carry out my calling as a under-shepherd.

(2.) Implications for our life as a church body (“save…those who hear you”).

Currently our structure doesn’t allow us to carry out the corporate mandate of loving one another.In order to rectify both issues I am proposing a simplified but very intentional and focused solution.

Number one worship God number to love each other number three proclaim the hope of the gospel

Number one worship God number to love each other number three proclaim the hope of the gospel

Upon entering to the ministry here at FBR, several times it was mentioned to me that the previous pastor was never at the church and that the messages were very shallow.

In response to that I sought to overcome that shadow of the last pastor by studying hard, preaching hard, praying hard which was (perhaps) part of what the church needed at the time.

However, over the last five years, this has produced an overload of biblical truth without really creating a context to live these things out and grow in Christ.

Therefore there is some transformation both for myself (take heed to yourself) and for our church body (save…those who hear me).