Welcome to Corinth Methodist Church A Global Methodist Congregation
4170 Highway 301 S, Four Oaks, North Carolina 27524
(919) 628-1119
Pastor Gainus Sikes
Worship - 10 am Bible Study - 11:15 am
Monthly message for February
Following is the monthly message for February from Pastor Sikes.
DISCIPLING OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE
Five simple things can help us discipline our spiritual life and bring us closer to winning the prize of our calling in God. Five things can help us meet our problems as a church and as individuals from an entirely new angle, from an angle that focuses not on the problems - but on the great problem solver - God.
First - Recognize your strengths and virtues, but resist complacency. There is nothing positive in thinking that you are devoid of good. But there is danger in being satisfied with the degree of goodness, and closeness that you have with God today. God can always make you more like Christ than you are right now.
Second - Accept the need to work and struggle spiritually. Salvation is a free gift. But a vital, intimate relationship with God does not come effortlessly. No relationship does. Athletes know their abilities. They also know that they must work to keep those abilities up to snuff let alone to improve them.
Third - Study the Bible - especially the gospels. We can't be more like Christ if we don't really know what he was like. Meditate on how the scriptures show Jesus dealing with life. Pay attention to his priorities, to his conflicts, to his actions, and to his teachings. Let these things be used by God in your life to challenge your thinking, to test how you do things. Every athlete studies the techniques of those who are better than him or her so that they might improve themselves.
Fourth - Continue in prayer. Confess your failings and open your life to the transforming power of God. Don't forget to listen as well as to talk. In prayer face the reality of whose you are and learn to submit yourself to God's purpose for you. Let him show you the direction you should run in, the path you should take. Athletes have their coaches to show them what to do and how to go about doing it. They don't ignore them. Nor should we ignore ours.
Fifth - Don't fear change. Change is the name of the game. We need to change. When we are open to God not only will we change but also things around us will change. Growth is a process of changing and that process is not always pain free. If you notice in the middle of the word Growth is the word OW There are some things we will have to give up. There are some people who will turn on us. Let it happen. What we will receive in their place is far better.
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