Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  It was a cloudy, chilly, drizzly, and raw Sunday morning here in Homestead – one of those rare mornings that only occurs about 3 to 5 times a year. It was a good 20 degrees colder this morning than it was yesterday morning. God decided that we needed a little bit of change in our mundane lives down here in our subtropical paradise, so He delivered Winter with a punch.

2.  I haven’t missed a Sunday morning yet at Life Pointe Church due to sickness, and I wasn’t about to start today on my one-year-anniversary. It’s Day 3 of my 2ND bad cold in less than 3 months, and I could have been sick and miserable in the darkness of my home, or I could have chased the daylight of my church family. I chose the latter, and it felt great to be with everyone. I hope that I didn’t infect anyone with my cold germs. I tried hard to keep my hands and my hugs to myself.

3.  I think I drank the equivalent of 4 large cups of Starbucks coffee this morning while serving during the first service. After awhile I forgot that I was sick because I was pinging on caffeine. The hot coffee went down so smoothly down my sore throat.

4.  Pastor Travis was about 55 miles away this morning at the grande 10:29 AM launch of InDependence Church up in Weston Florida. Hopefully Travis and Nathan will do a ‘Sunday Wrap-Up’ of how things went up there with the official start of the brand new church plant.

5.  Pastor Paul substituted for Pastor Travis this morning, and he delivered another powerful teaching to us. We are disciples. We are ministers. We are priests. God wanted all of His believers to serve as priests. There are many functions of being a priest. Here are 5:

• Discipleship – to disciple to others
• Intercession – to pray for others
• Evangelism – to tell others about Jesus Christ
• Service – to serve others
• Worship – to celebrate Jesus Christ with others

If you’re not doing all of these functions then you are dysfunctional as a priest. We are all dysfuctional in one or more of these key areas, but it’s very easy to correct the situation. Maintain your strengths, but focus on your weaknesses. Never settle for mundane. Always strive for better. Look toward and move forward to those thousand points of light !