Hey everyone, been thinking about today for a long time. Wondering if all the effort to make one special day happen in people’s minds is having any effect. There used to be a not so nice code name for folks who only attended church services at Christmas and Easter times… CEO’S short for Christmas and Easter Only’s. As if somehow, those who attend more regularly have some kind of special dispensation. Preached “Invest & Invite the previous three weeks. Even made a deal with our folks that if they would take time to invest in relationships with people and then invite them, I would make sure that they heard the gospel when they came. Well in the middle of the series I had to make a trip to the local Home Depot. After what GOD reminded me of during that trip I can assure you that I don’t have any special dispensation! I was in a hurry, wanting to pay and get out and on with whatever it was I had planned when it hit me that GOD died for those folks in my way as much as He did for me. The Book of James tells us that anyone who sins, even just once, is as guilty as if they had committed them all. That makes me just as guilty as Mussolini, Stalin, Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler and anybody else you’d care to name. I keep great company, don’t I? Well you could argue that I haven’t murdered anyone, etc… but Jesus might have something to say about that. Maybe we can get into that another time… Point is – GOD the Father cares just as deeply for CEO’S as He does for everyone. In Eternity past He came up with a plan to redeem us all. Thank GOD for Jesus! And thank GOD for the resurrection – without we’d have no hope. But because Jesus was the Christ and IS GOD we do have hope and so do all the CEO’S and Non-CEO’S of the world. Remember there but for the grace of GOD go you and me…
Serving Him with you,
James