An Open Letter to Preaching Christ Church

PCC Family,
We are quickly approaching our Spring community events. As I was praying for our church, I felt the Lord saying to me that we need to understand God’s responsibility and our responsibility as we pray and prepare for this season of our church.

God’s Responsibility (Blessings)
Notice 2 Corinthians 9:8, “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” Are we able to cause grace to abound? No! Are we able to be self-sufficient? Absolutely not! Only the Lord can give such blessings. Only God can place His hand on a heart, an event…a city! Are we deeply dependent on His blessings?

As we pray for God’s blessings over Hop To It, Easter Sunday and Rise Together, let us remember that only God can bring salvation! He alone can restore broken lives and broken marriages. I know in my heart that God wants to do so much, but these things will only come through prayer and through our dependency on His grace, and the encouraging thing is that God “is able to make all grace abound to you” so that we may “abound in every good work.”

Notice the link between God’s grace abounding in our lives and abounding in good works. God will equip us to do these tasks. Some might say they don’t have the time or the energy or even the health to do these. But remember, it is God who supplies and strengthens us with all grace.

Our Responsibility (Excitement)
Hebrews 10:24 instructs us, “Let us consider how to stir one another up to love and good works.” While it is His responsibility to bring the blessing, it is our responsibility to create excitement and momentum.

Momentum brings energy and anticipation. So I am asking those who call PCC home, are you excited about what God is leading us in? Are you anticipating the salvation of your lost loved ones? Are you expecting God to answer prayers and bring the kinds of blessings only He can bring?

I think we sometimes hinder what God wants to do among us because we act as though it is church as usual…let me assure you, this Spring is not church as usual! So if you are casual in your faith and comfortable in your current spiritual condition, then you need to be stirred up!

Break out of your comfort and begin to pray fervently.
Stir yourself by asking these questions: Are you on a volunteer team for these special events? Are you serving God using your skills and talents? Are you attending Tuesday night prayer meetings or are you faithful to Sunday morning gatherings? If excitement and momentum are going to build then we you need you FULLY ENGAGED!

You are more than “part of the team.” You are a part of the Body of Christ! We are designed to move together and do good works together that glorify God! Consider these Scriptures on good works and then decide to join our volunteer teams. Decide to pray as never before. Decide who you are going to invite and be a part of what God wants to do this Spring!

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Titus 2:14