“The church which God purchased with His Own Blood”  (Acts 20)

“Let no man despise thy youth.”

 

The two (2) verses from above are like all Scripture in that i take them very serious. I enjoy a humour, i do. This surprises many. I do enjoy jokes and i enjoy joking around…really i do. The thing is. I don’t always get the humour of others and others do not always get mine. Ihave found that when others laugh at myjokes, they are really laaughing because i am laughing at my own joke. I do enjoy humour but….

I am not a preacher that mixes humour with ministry. The preacher is to begrave and sober when it comes to the Word. I confess, i do find humour in Scripture where others do not. I have brokendown into tears of laughter in the pulpit more than once. But i am, otherwise deadly sober inthe pulpit and in the ministry Godhas entrusted to me. I can remember years ago, having young punks in a service anddisrupting it. The pastor reproved them but they continued.

I thenstood up and demanded the punks, follow me outside. They did and thenbegan smarting off to me. I put them all against the wall and then our seven foot member can to their aid. They continued…it turned out they had afamily member who was a cop and that member was on duty. Someone called the police and it was family that showed up. The kids then threatened to return with their dad to get even with me andi invited them to Wednesday evening service where i would be teaching. …Scripture, but i was willing to teach jiu jitstu lessons free of charge.

Wednesday came as did the punks and their dad and some others. I taught the lesson while looking them all in the eyes and ieven taught some of it in the aisle next to the family and friends of the disrupters. Nothing happened that night.

Why do i share that with you? I do so to demonstrate the seriousness inwhich i hold the ministry God has entrusted to me. Now that i am older….you might ask me if i would handle the situation the same. I would answer with a question…..is the pope the head of a satanic institution?

We have been attending BBC for over a month now and we have observed and noted many things. We will list these and then expand:

1.Pastor Sonsek is without the right choice for the pastorate. If i had one thing that could be taken as negative or rather a great difficulty is the heart that is greatly enlarged. The man is a man that greatly feels. Sonsek reminds me of Paul when Paul lists his physical maladies, which are many but then ends. His list with his greatest pain and ache and that is the concern he has for the church.

2. There is a wealth of knowledge and understaning among the BBC congregation. When the pastor is not in the pulpit, he has a wealth of choices from among the men in the church. One (1) warning however, with much knowledge comes the danger of being puffed up and the loss of our First (1st) Love….Who is Christ. This is a great and very present danger.

3. The Lord’s Supper. I have remembered the Lord’s death until He come with many congregations. Alan Muxlow handled it very very well. I have stood in awe of some churches and the sacrilege in what they call the Lord’s Supper. What so many ministers forsake or refuse to mention is the extreme danger in taking past in this ordinance. While this ordinance is not to be taken as the literal Body of the Lord Jesus’ and the catholic cult bladpemously teaches; the wine element can become literal poison to the person who takes it unworthily. Their are two ministers that i have heard to stress this danger and it’s reality. I have stressed it and called it a cup of broken glass to the unbeliever and Pastor Muxlow. The Lord’s Supper is not to be taken lightly. Calvinwas exiled from Geneva because he would withhold the elements from those he knew to be unsaved or living as unsaved. Calvintook this ordinance very serious as should we all. How many of us would consider a sudden illness of a church member or attendee as the fruit of the Lord’s Supper? Would you think it a possible judgment ofthe Lord’s Supper or would you think a natural illness? What does you answer say about you?

4. I am surprised and pleased with the myriad of outreach opportunities the church has in the area.

5. I have observed a lessening of persons attending. I would encourage any reader of mine from BBC with this word: WHAT A BLESSING!!!

Crazy Preacher say what? In Scripture we find few who are forsaken by so many.  1. Was not Christ left by many and left by many so often (John 6)?  2. Was not Paul left alone, save Luke? 3. Did not God whittle down Gideon’s army?  4.Was not David chastened for even considering the number of persons (1Chronicles 21)? Reader, as i said before, when a pastor is voted in to a new church, he should expect 60% to “depart and follow him no more”  (John 6:66 and let not the chapter and verse number be lost on you). I remember a story. A preacher and his family asked for a vote of confidence. The preacher andfamily turned around, their backs now facing the church. The church stoodup and ecited the building. This pastor and family forsaken by all. Not many can say that, save our Blessed Lord and Savior and His. Apostle to the gentiles!!!. A blessing was the forsaking. And was not Joseph the Christ-type in Genesis of Christ, too.

I also, personally know of a missionary family that was forsaken by all….eall….even by those they never knew.  We received a letter when i was in another church. It was froma missionary board. A missionary board we were not part of. This board was sending a letter to all the legalistic churches they knew of. This letter was from a Missionary family. The point of this epistle was to inform tjose that supported them that they have hada change in understanding in Scripture. This was a change from free will. Salvation or easy believism or hersey to a more Calvinistic view. They promised that their evangelism and reaching remains the same.

The mission board that sent the letter forsook this family and encouraged others to do so, even those churches that might hear from them in the future!!!!!! Brethren, I would standwith this family and Against all the loveless pharisees. I was outraged beyond words…i thought of some words butthey would have been unbecoming. Ihave seen much hate and disloyalty in the local church. Paul says these things must be, so that sound doctrine and truth may stand out.   5. I have noticed that some of the persons who have departed have begun attending Harvest. I will not speak against the Lord’s annointed until he proves not to be. However what i will say about Harvest is what i say about all mega churches. There is not the sense of closeness or unity that i can sense in BBC. That is an observation and not meant to be a shot or a blow. I have attended a number of services at Harvest and they are sound, Scriptural and direct. If a person wants to attend church andbe left alone a mega church may be an option but isthat how God has designed it?  6.My family is fitting in nicely. That was one of the pros in coming to BBC. Not a reason but a benefit. The reason was God’s will for now.  7. BBC is one (1) of two (2) churches in the immediate are that i find to be sound and alive. With seven (7) being the number of completeness we will end here. God Bless BBC.

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