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This morning I would like to share my heart with you.

I feel so strongly about this that I have trouble finding adequate words to convey my deepest of desires for the church.

God wants you!

God wants you to Repent of your sins and have faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.

God wants you to find joy in Him, in serving Him, worshiping Him, and telling others about Him.

God wants you to raise your family to love Him, tell your neighbors to love Him, tell your coworkers to love Him, tell your friends to love Him!

God wants to see more people come to faith in Jesus Christ around Palestine, Anderson County, Texas, the USA, and around the world.

God wants you to find purpose in Him, to find significance in Him, to find your self worth in Him.

God wants more for you than you realize is out there.

Nothing brings more joy to Gods heart than seeing members of NHBC serving Him and sharing the gospel with others.

God doesn’t care about how many seats are filled on Sunday or how many people are on the membership rolls, i care about how many hearts are transformed by the Holy Spirit.

I’m obsessed with reaching those who aren’t here.

I want my children to have a church to love and serve in.

I want your children and grandchildren to love God with all that is in them.

God wants that for your kids and grandkids.

Jesus said

God Wants You to Put Others Before Yourself

Christ First (Studying His Word)

Others Second (Disciple Others)

Yourself Last (Personal Preferences)

Ministry

Church we need to begin putting Christ first in our life!

This means putting others before ourselves.

It means setting aside our desires and our hopes and our preferences for the needs of those who are lost.

I want with everything inside of me to see lost people come to faith in Jesus Christ.

I want with everything inside of me to see lost people come to NHBC and begin following Jesus Christ, being discipled, taught how to love Him and learning what it means to follow Christ.

I want to see you become all that Christ created you to become.

To become all that he sees in you.

He gave up his life for you and you are talented, gifted, blessed, and incredible people, God wants you to use all that you are to lead other people to Him.

Every sermon, every newsletter article.

Everyone Bible study is meant to help you see the need for a closeness to God that is demonstrated through your reaching out to the lost.

I’m confused and saddened that so many of you continue to ignore messages and Bible studies and aren’t compelled by the Holy Spirit to share the gospel or serve someone in need.

I don’t understand that.

God has a better life for you to live.

He has so much more for you to do.

And doing it brings value and happiness to your life in ways that nothing else on this earth can.

I don’t understand.

Do you not love Jesus?

Are you not grateful for what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross?

I’m encouraged by those who are setting aside personal preferences to reach the lost, but their are still so many of you who aren’t bearing any fruit and they suffer, the kingdom suffers, this lifestyle does NOT please the Lord.

If we are going to see our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids, our friends and family, neighbors and strangers come to faith in Jesus Christ we have to take responsibility and lay aside our personal preference to reach them.

That means sacrifice and theres no way around it.

We cannot continue to give the least amount we can to the Lord and expect to see our friends and family in heaven.

They need you to live for Christ, setting the example, and sharing the Gospel with them.

God has given you that responsibility.

God Wants You to Leave Church and Home

Please notice with me that Jesus didn’t just stay in his synagogue in Galilee.

He didn’t wait for lost people and hurting people to come to him.

He went out to the towns and villages.

He was teaching and preaching and healing diseases.

He loved those who were lost and had compassion on them.

Do you love the lost?

Go to the people

Don’t wait for people to come to you

Have compassion on the Lost

Please notice with me that Jesus didn’t just stay in the synagogue.

He didn’t wait for lost people and hurting people to come to him.

He went out to the towns and villages.

He was teaching and preaching and healing diseases.

He loved those who were lost and had compassion on them.

Do you love the lost?

When you see someone who is trapped in sin, trapped in the sin of adultery, pornography, drug use, alcoholism, gossip, anger, self-centeredness and jealousy are you saddened at the state of their lives?

They will never be satisfied.

Anger creates anger, jealousy creates jealousy, gossip creates gossip, and all of these destroy lives.

Christ has taken your broken life and put it back together so you can go and help others by sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with them, so He can begin putting their broken lives back together.

Do you have compassion as Jesus had compassion?

Do you love the lost?

Do you have compassion for the hurting?

They need a shepherd.

First and foremost that is Jesus Christ.

The good shepherd, the shepherd of our souls.

Second, he has placed pastors in every church as under-shepherds to feed, nurture, and lead the sheep of God’s pasture.

To teach, preach, and pray for God’s power to transform their lives.

Are you a part of the flock, following the shepherd, Jesus Christ?

Or have you gone astray, turning to your own way, doing what is right in your own eyes.

That not only leads you away from Christ, but it also leads others away from Christ.

Do you have compassion as Jesus had compassion?

When it comes to church planting, Satan doesn’t care if you just huddle up some believers in a new location, but if you start penetrating the lostness of a city by making disciples & multiplying the church, he’s going to pay attention.

- Vance Pitman

Jesus was sent to reach the lost, the sick, the hurting, those who were in need of a Savior.

He has also sent you; “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

You’ve been sent.

Have you gone anywhere?

When it comes to church planting, Satan doesn’t care if you just huddle up some believers in a new location, but if you start penetrating the lostness of a city by making disciples & multiplying the church, he’s going to pay attention.

- Vance Pitman

Every member of NHBC is a minister of the Gospel.

Why do you come to NHBC? Do you come to see friends, do you come to be entertained by the music.