To see what the LORD is doing at The 'Stone' is beyond my belief. Well--it is a byproduct of my belief; but it is always overwhelming when you SEE in the natural what you have been trusting for so long by faith. God is blessing our congregation in ways that only HE can. In short and summary, he is multiplying and adding to HIS church--but more importantly to HIS Kingdom. I was extremely pleased today because we have formed a system whereby the men of our church are leading the way to our ministry of HELPS, first of which they are assigned as 'Doorkeepers'. They literally handle every facet of assisting the Pastor, First Lady, Ministers, and Worship Leaders in attending to the cares and needs of the parishioners, regular attendars and our special guests. This was the first Sunday of this new paradigm and it was quite successful! One of our members has done and is doing a good job of rounding and rallying together all of our men and moving them toward responsible church membership.
Today we continued our series on Stewardship, labeling the message today, 'Heaven's Investment Strategy' taken from Matthew 6:19-22. The Lord blessed the entire worship service and we had ONE brother come forward and join the family of God. It is so interesting to see how the Lord used the message to speak to this young man's heart--dealing with a message on Stewardship--a not-so-popular subject matter; but the entire message he was very attentive and he stepped forward. What was more beautiful than this was to see all of the men of Cornerstone come and embrace this brother and hug him and show their love to another child of God!!! Psalm 133:1 really became so evident to me and does more each and every week. I love men; and it has and is becoming such an important part of my life and church life. I truely believe not only as a Pastor but just a Christian believer--I would be so unhappy if I couldn't share the joy of my salvation with other brothers. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love women. But when the 2008 statistics show that 1 out of every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated; and 1 out of every 15 Black men are incarcerated; and to see how so many men HATE church and feel that it is irrelevent, it is my life mission to bring men into the Kingdom of God.
A harvest of men are joining the Kingdom movement at Cornerstone. I love these brothers; and I pray that the Lord will continually use me an an instrument as He continues to shape these brothers into 'Men that Matter'!!!
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