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cfc community forum

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You all will have to go check out CFC’s brand-spankin new community forum!  As you can probably tell by the ridiculous adjectives i am using, i am incredibly excited about this!  I hope this will be a tool for you to get to know one another, encourage one another, challenge one another, ask questions, make comments, and provoke one another to Love and good works. Although these are huge reasons for why we have created this, it will also be a way for the CFC staff to ask for your input on a broad range of topics. So don’t hold back, speak the truth, always with love.

“So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved,put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” – Colossians 3:12-17

Christ Fellowship Church

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Everyone be sure to check out our new church website cfctaylor.com.  One of the many cool things about it is that you can listen to and download the messages and the message guides.  That is especially awesome to think about when we understand what the Bible says in Gal. 2:20, “…the life i now live in the flesh, i live by faith in the Son of God.” and then what Rom. 10:17 says, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.”

Check it out and be challenged!

my morning epiphany…

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So just to be clear, these morning epiphanies aren’t necessarily a usual occurrence for me although i surely wouldn’t complain if they were… It’s going to sound cliche and incredibly cheesy but i am going to share it just how it happened.

I was in between asleep and fully coherent and i don’t even remember thinking about anything particular but just out of nowhere i thought about church, my own specific Christ Fellowship Church. I suddenly realized that the church (little “c”, as in the institution) along with all of its programs ect. is supposed to be a tool in the Church’s (big “C”, as in the body of Christ made up of many members) hands. So obviously this is common knowledge or at least it should be, but as i began to narrow my thoughts down to the individual programs or “ministries” in which the leadership of the church is constantly pushing new and fresh recruits and never ending demands for shallow excellence as manifested in their showing up on time or how enthusiastic they appear to be when they finally get there.

No matter how much we would like to believe that this is the right way or the only way, this mindset is diametrically opposed to reality. The reality that is we the people are the church! Everything else, the programs, ministries, land, buildings, and yes even the money are simply the tools or instruments. Yes i know what you’re thinking, “wow caleb you are just figuring this out?!?” and don’t get me wrong i thought i did know this… But if i really understood this reality then why am i still playing the part of the tool in the iron fist of the institution?

I guess i just realized that it’s well past time for the many members to breakout and take up our tools and build the Kingdom of which Jesus is the head, not the pastors or the ministry leaders or not even the volunteer coordinators.

Seek first the Kingdom! Amen.