True Holiness is NOT isolation!

[Mark H. Stevens, Th.D]

The real problem in many of our churches is we equate "holiness" with the way we dress and our church attendance and NOT how we treat each other and act! Holiness means we are set apart for God's service, I stay in trouble with most of my pastors because I don't conform, I am a preacher and teacher of the Word, I go wherever the Spirit leads me, whether it be the prison, mission field, hospitals, or the street. We need to stop believing that we serve God in a building! The local church was established to be a place of WORSHIP! But we SERVE God in the community! "Holiness" doesn't mean we are BETTER than anyone, it simply means I am called to SERVE everyone! Wearing a long skirt doesn't make you "holy" but putting on a pair of jeans and handing out food and Bibles to homeless people does! Get out of the church and into the street!

[Scott R. Newman]

Act 1:8 But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Amen couldn't have said it better.... At times one thinks they are the only one who see's the true work of Christ. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are sho nuff few. We must go beyond the gates and the walls of the church to engage the harvest of the unengaged. God only had one son and He made His only begotten son a missionary. His mission was to seek and to save that which is lost. We are not monks nor are called to stay in monasteries to be light among light.


Mat 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Mat 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

Darkness cannot survive where light is present. If we have Christ's light within us, the best place where light shines best is in darkness. We must not hide Christ's light, but allow it to be seen on the mountaintop as a light house for those whom hear God's voice to come and have rest from the burdens that sin produces which is death. We are the very soldiers that God calls to missionary sacrifice to be "Fishers of Men". We are to be witnesses, one who has seen and experienced the resurrected Christ in our transformed lives to a people who are still dead in their sins. Dead people cannot raise themselves. Sheep produce other sheep.

Jesus confronted Peter on the beach as He was frying up the fish, and He asked Peter, "DO YOU LOVE ME?" If we love Christ for what He did for us on the cross, then we would feed the sheep and care for the lambs by the innerant and inspired Word of God that does the cleansing and purifying through the blood covenant of the righteousness of Christ.

Pilate before having Jesus crucified on the cross asked, "What is TRUTH?" Without the ambassadors of Christ who are sent to preach the Good News of our Lord and Savior to a dying and dark world of the unevangelized at home and abroad of God's truth which sets us all free, for whom the Son sets free is free indeed, they will continue to die and apart from Christ, they will...PERISH!

The bottom line is really the issue, which is do we really care as a body of believers to want to even go beyond the bricks and mortars of the church building to do the same as our Lord has done to seek that which is lost? Do we have the heart of God? Or are we likened to the Pharissees who mocked Jesus who sat with sinners? As Jesus responded,
Luk 5:31 "And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are in health have no need of a physician; but they that are sick".

This is why Jesus admonished us who are called as true sent ones to:

Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The command of God to, Go Ye Therefore to preach the Good News of Christ to all nations is not for some or a few but to all....So that the fulfillment of Rev. 7:9 will be manifest:

Rev 7:9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;

God Bless

Scott