03/21/17 R U FIRED UP

03/21/17 R U FIRED UP
I have pastored churches that took discipleship and fellowship seriously and congregations that basically showed up out of duty or to be stroked.

There is holy fire in the first example and cold embers (at best) in the second example.

The fired up crowd charges the gates of hell and shakes the world. The cooled down crowd falls back from the call and shakes in the shadows.

Someone said, "It does not take much of a man to serve God, but it does take all of that man."

Fired up churches are filled with love, humility, self denial, commitment to God's reality, and it is manifested in Holy Spirit filled services, leading to Holy Spirit filled service.