WE NEED TO GET EXCITED ABOUT OUR FAITH! Why not? We get excited about sports. We are stirred by political campaigns every two or four years. We are fired up concerning international crisis, by the threat of war and by crime. We need to get fired up about the only cure for all this world\u2019s ills, the way of Christ, the Kingdom of God.
Christ demands enthusiasm in His followers. He even threatens to spew out the lukewarm members of the church. When Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple, His disciples were so impressed with His fervency of spirit that they recalled the prophecy: \u201czeal for Thine house eaten me up\u201d. Paul teaches us to emulate our Lord by being \u201cfervent in spirit\u201d. Peter said, \u201cAnd I think that it is right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enthusiasm literally means \u201cGod within us\u201d or \u201cGod inbreathed\u201d. The man who is in constant contact with God will be enthusiastic about living for Him and doing right. Tanner, let\u2019s get excited about the Lord and His Church! Let\u2019s jump in with both feet to do His work! Let\u2019s get on fire with the love of God and spread that fire to other Christians! The churches of our Lord in our time need to be stirred up. They needed to get on fire with the zeal which characterized the New Testament church in the first century. \u201cLET US CONSIDER HOW TO STIR UP ONE ANOTHER TO LOVE AND GOOD WORKS\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Try it today! Pray that the Lord will help you get excited about Christ and His church. Talk to those you meet enthusiastically about the kingdom of God. Your enthusiasm will rub off on others, and God will bless you with more of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WE NEED TO GET EXCITED ABOUT OUR FAITH! Why not? We get excited about sports. We are stirred by political campaigns every two or four years. We are fired up concerning international crisis, by the threat of war and by crime. We need to get fired up about the only cure for all this world\u2019s… Continue reading Let’s Get Excited About Our Faith!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","category-marks-messages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}