GOD's Next

It is not works replacing grace, but works revealing grace. I don't know if you have heard it preached at your church that being saved from sin and entering heaven seriously includes active and intentional caring for the needy and the weak. We're familiar with what Paul said about being saved by grace through faith alone, not of yourself, not of works. It's a gift. And it's true. Jesus Christ taught Paul that through divine supernatural revelation. Photo above by Yasin Onuş on Unsplash .  But the problem is, we just focused on what Paul said and paid little to zero attention to what Jesus said about salvation, aside from being born again and receiving him to have the right and power to be children of God. We must combine what Jesus and Paul said and not pit them against each other. Denominations do that. To preserve their doctrines they make bible passages contradict each other so that one denomination focuses on once saved always saved, another believes salvation can ...

Since 1980 when I was born again in my college days, I've always wondered what the real work of God is. With so many church denominations and ministries doing a lot of busy-Martha moves here and there, and sometimes ending up competing against each other, you step back and cannot but wonder what's really going on. Are we continuing what Jesus started or are we inventing our own?  Photo above by 2H Media on Unsplash . Paul’s exhortation in 1 Corinthians 15:58 —“give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord”—is not a call to busyness in church programs, but to a deeper, spiritual ministry rooted in Christ Himself. One that transforms people radically as a genuine spiritual new born in Christ. “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew 18] When Jesus defined the real “work of God” in John 6:29 as bel...

First off, this is not about some lucrative marketing or sales venture, though the principle can help lots with business started from scratch. Firstly, I'm talking about Kingdom business. God often starts his ventures with "zero capital." With the nation of Israel, he started with nothing. I mean, he called Abram from North Mesopotamia or Ur, sent him off with practically nothing and made him trek through no-man's land--bare desert and wilderness--exposing him vulnerably there. Initial zero capital. You may opt to see it this way, if you want the principle applied to your situation--God can start you off in an actual business undertaking from scratch. You just have to learn the principle like some business people I know who apply concepts in the bible to their businesses, and find them actually working. One believer started his now very profitable online business with a free blog. 😃 Photo by Liam Pozz on Unsplash . You know how challenging God's zero-capital pri...