We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

This is going to help you this year to be drum roll.

The best believer possible.

It's my Joe Lowe Steve message, Jack. I'm going there tonight.

But being the best believer possible, amen.

And this is serious though.

I'm laughing, but it's very serious because as we mature, God begins to depend on us when we mature. Did you know that? When you mature, God is ready to use you. He's waiting on maturity. He's waited on you to fall in love with his process. Yeah. That's what he's waiting on. He's waiting on your commitment,

your commitment, whether it's to work in the ministry or just be in the ministry, to come in here,

dive in first. There's so many of you that have bought in, but you haven't bought all the way in,

and God is waiting on you to buy all the way in so he can use you for something.

Yeah. See, don't think God is going to call you out on your island of Patmos and use you.

That's not what he's going to do. He created this, he created a fellowship for you to learn how to

handle his responsibilities. that's what church is

yeah it's your training ground this is where you get empowered to do what you're going to do

am i telling the truth elder yeah you so you can't take it for granted i know folks have dog church

and going to church and all that it's not

popular anymore no rules no religion i know all that's the new thing now but i'm telling you this is

where god he created this he said the gates of hell are not going to prevail against it and this is

where what uh the the the scripture that elder read this is where the prophets the pastors the the gifts and

everything this is where they're formulated this is the beginning of it this is where you get

qualified people see paul he knocked off his horse and the next day he was preaching no he

was the next day he was blind and he had to go submit to a preacher. Then he had to go

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