Above What ?

Above What? the sky, the moon, the stars…..Above What? The word is very specific about being above reproach as a Pastor. Now first and foremost I want to say I am not perfect, have never been perfect and do think that anytime before my death that I will attain perfection.

I know that as a pastor we can get angry, sad, tired, bewildered, etc,etc. But what it troubles me when I just see a blantant attack on someone and to disavow all knowledge about something, then start casting stones. In todays world as Pastors we need to remember a few things:

1. It is all about Jesus Christ

2. We are and never will be perfect.

3.When the Pharisees approached Jesus about the prostitute, he told them that “let ye with no sin cast the first stone” I believe that we are to let people know of the sin that is separating them from God, but we are not to use their past as a rock to throw at them.  If I remember correctly the Pharisees dropped their stones and walked away.

4. We are to forgive 70×7. Pastors above all are to have compassion and love among other things for everyone. That is the love of Jesus Christ flowing thru us.

So if we as Pastors are confronted about something and can not give an answer without flipping out in anger we need to stop, pray about it, and ask for help or guidance in this matter.

OK I am done thanks for listening to me ramble something on my heart and I needed to write about it.

Please pray for me I am out of town on business and we had a long day today and if things work out for Saturday we will be working 12 hours +

Blessings,

Pastor Rick

The Greatest or Not

I apologize to my readers, I have been very busy being that I am out of town for 2 weeks helping open a new store ( my secular job). Today is only my 4th day of being away and by talking to my 11 year old she guilt’s me into thinking I have been gone 2 years. Nuff said I miss my whole family when I am gone.

At this particular opening I am training the servers and when I training no matter whom I am training there is one question I always ask ” What is the difference between a GOOD server/cook and a GREAT server/cook? The answer is that a GREAT server/cook knows when to ask for help and a GOOD one just runs with it and doesn’t want to bother anyone to ask for help, sinks, suffers and delivers poor customer service.

I think that the next question is that what is the difference between a GOOD and GREAT Christian? MMMM Ponder that for a few minutes. Remember in the book of Matthew chapter 18 verse 1 the disciples asked the same question : ”Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?  We all know that the answer was becoming childlike to enter into the kingdom. But none of us no matter how much one does or how little one does aren’t we all the same, a christian is a christian is a christian. We have all accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savour should anything else seperate us from each other are we not going towards the same goal following the same Great commandment.

So just because you may give more money or volunteer more or you wince back at the site of others that do more than you do. Do not judge what other people are doing we are not in the judgement seat that is Jesus’s job not ours. Love one another and  Remember we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ we are on the same mission. Declaring Jesus and spreading the Gospel throughout the world.

What a Day!

Lately my wife and I have been troubled in some decisions that we need to make.There is a lot of stress in what we have been going thru. We have been praying for God to answer us and we feel that he has, so we are working on a new plan for the direction of our lives it will be an exciting chapter in our lives. When it is tie I will write about it.

Today I was praying that a Pastor friend of mine be in our local coffee shop because I needed some good biblical counsel. Praise God he was there he gave me what God had for me and it was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Has that ever happened to you that God just reaches down and takes your pressure away and you just breath a side of relief, what an awesome feeling.

I have a very good friend that always tells me the only reason I have stress is because I do not control my reaction to the situation……..He is so right…I think that we all freak out in the beginning and then finally calm down and realize it really wasn’t that bad.

God bless you all!!!!