Churches in Bellmore

“I mean, folks, after all God has done for you, if you really understand, remember we've talked about the gospel, we are more wicked, more flawed, more simple than we could begin to understand. Believe me, the death you know, you don't have to teach a kid to be selfish. We're all selfish. We're all self centered by our nature. And yet at the same time, god's forgiven us and he loves us more than we could ever even begin to grasp, more than we could ever hope. How then could we not be a contributor to be filled by doing god's work in the church and impacting the life of others.”

“If you're a Christian, god has given you gifts. You have a call, and god has set you apart to use those gifts to make a difference in the church and in the world. And in our culture, the challenge is that very often people don't even understand what the church is. So let me, first of all, start with a very important and basic point, and that is simply that the church is not, never has been, never will be a building. The church of the people of god. We don't go excuse me. We don't go to church. We are the church.”

“That's the whole point. So, this whole idea, we are called to be contributors, not consumers, It's absolutely nonnegotiable. It's not up for discussion. Our food, our spiritual nourishment, what can what sustains us is to do the work of the father and to accomplish his work. Because once again, the church doesn't exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.”

“Listen. In our relatively small church, we've got an a b team. We've got a music team. We've got Sunday school teams. We've got ushers and cleaners and painters and plumbers and construction people, people who teach, people who lead, people who understand our food is to do the will of him who sent us and to accomplish his work. People who are spiritual contributors, that's what fills them up because we are the church, and god calls every one of us to make a difference.”