Communion

God’s House has communion every six weeks.  We have open communion facilitated by one of our Pastor’s on staff.  Join us this Sunday!

Element Youth

Element is for youth from 6th grade through High School.  They meet every other Sunday with Meg Wasik.  They start in the church service for Praise and Worship and then move on to their own room with fun and discussion just for them.  This Sunday join Meg Wasik and the Element kids for a great time!

Access Groups-Who is God?

Week 7 of 12.  Ever wanted to really know who God is?  Do you think He is a big mean bully or do you think He is a loving father?  Come to an Access group this week and learn what the bible has to say about who God really is!  Access groups meet different nights of the week in homes around the greater Orlando area.  Call the church for more information.

Access Groups-Who is God?

Week 8 of 12.  Ever wanted to really know who God is?  Do you think He is a big mean bully or do you think He is a loving father?  Come to an Access group this week and learn what the bible has to say about who God really is!  Access groups meet different nights of the week in homes around the greater Orlando area.  Call the church for more information.

Iron Men Breakfast

Bring your flap jacks, sausage, biscuits and gravy!  No croissants allowed!  Meet at the church for some food and fellowship.  Great opportunity to get some know some of the other “Iron Men” of the house!

Element Youth

Element is for youth from 6th grade through High School.  They meet every other Sunday with Meg Wasik.  They start in the church service for Praise and Worship and then move on to their own room with fun and discussion just for them.  This Sunday join Meg Wasik and the Element kids for a great time!

Access Groups-Who is God?

Week 9 of 12.  Ever wanted to really know who God is?  Do you think He is a big mean bully or do you think He is a loving father?  Come to an Access group this week and learn what the bible has to say about who God really is!  Access groups meet different nights of the week in homes around the greater Orlando area.  Call the church for more information.

Changing Your Status

I recently changed my political and religious status on Facebook.  It used to say “Conservative Christian” and I was fine with that, except that I realize just how broad that term is.  I changed my status to reflect that I am a “liberal conservative, or a conservative liberal, or something that doesn’t act like a cartoon character.”  And I changed my religious views to “follower of Jesus Christ”.  The reason; our world is too hung up on titles and banners that are too broad to identify us.  “Conservative Christian” described Jerry Falwell.  God rest the man, but I’m not him.  Don’t get too excited, nothing changed about what I believe.  My heart is still as committed as ever to the only One who has ever given His life for me.  I’ve never bought into the fraudulent conspiracy theories passed around by e-mail.  I’ve never stockpiled food in the basement for the tribulation, nor have I ever passed on a guilt-inflicting chain letter in the name of blessing someone.  I do admit, however, that it is easy to get swept up in the latest craze.  The newest ideas that become popular, or the best-selling books that offer a different idea about faith.  Whenever I feel myself pulling to one side or another, I’m always drawn back to the simplicity of the Good News or Gospel of Jesus.

Jesus did make it pretty simple with the commandments to love God, love others, love yourself.  Here’s where balance needs to be applied.  I look at biblical beliefs like a pendulum.  There’s always the tendency to swing from one side and back to the other.  I actually think that’s natural.  It’s in the middle where we want to live.  The Old Testament is God’s attitude toward sin, the New Testament is God’s attitude toward sinners.  Before we realize what an amazingly gracious thing Jesus did for us in forgiving our sins and making us children of God, we have to contemplate how Holy He is.

People that do not acknowledge God’s complete, total, fear-inspiring holiness can swing the pendulum to believe that we can live any way we want and God has no standard for us.  We play like ignorant children in the street among the traffic, and God says “Aw, aren’t they cute out there expressing themselves?”

On the other hand, people that do not acknowledge God’s unparalleled, incomprehensible mercy toward the undeserving can swing the pendulum to believe that we have to please God with our outward works and cower in fear of a lightning-throwing tyrant.  We are like infants learning to take shaky steps, and each time we fall God says “How dare you fall, you incompetent excuse for a human!”

My spiritual walk has been a continual, even daily reminder of God’s Holiness, and His mercy.  This view has helped me relate to non-believers with more compassion, and relate to devout, long-time believers with more understanding.

Something amazing is happening among Christians everywhere.  There is even a move among some to drop the name “Christian” altogether.  That word was first used by non-believers in Antioch, Syria to describe and ridicule the early believers.  It means “little Christ”.  The label stuck and has been used for millennia.  But when you look at things like, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and other dark moments in history, it’s no wonder so many people resist Jesus because of what’s been done in His Name.

Some groups are using the term “Christ follower” to separate themselves from the stereotype of the heavily hair-sprayed, southern fried TV evangelist, who talks funny, and is against everything.

Others are going even farther into repackaged Eastern Spirituality and mysticism.  Some are scrapping the whole deal, and throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.  This brings me back to my earlier point about balance.  You don’t correct error with greater error.  You correct error with truth.  Every great renewal or revival of the past came through this same feeling of discontent, and drove people back to God’s Word.  Instead of taking someone’s word for it, they discovered it for themselves.  Scripture made sense, God was approachable, religion was detestable, salvation was available, and the life-transformation was undeniable.  That’s a real reformation!  I think we’re in one right now!  It certainly is being experienced in many churches just like God’s House.  The challenge is not to swing that pendulum too far and make up our own doctrine, but to go back to the original message:  A Holy God, so beautiful and perfect that He detests the very presence of sin, so much that He took on our humanity, laid himself on a brutal cross that we deserved, and paid to make us Holy so that we could be His family.  It makes me cry just to write about it.  Who else but God would do that?

You should read Isaiah 6:1-8.  It is a vision of the prophet Isaiah, a very godly man who comes face to face with God and is suddenly aware of his own sinfulness.  But it reveals what happens in the life of every one that begins with Loving God.  First you discover who He is and how amazing He is.  Secondly, you realize how small and weak you are compared to Him.  Thirdly, you find how willing He is to make us clean and make us useful to His purpose.  Fourthly, when He has done His work in us, we have no fear to stand boldly before Him, or to be associated with His Name.

It seems the closer I get to God, the more I don’t know.  The higher He lifts me, the more scared I am of falling.  The more I see His righteousness, the more I see my sinfulness.  The more I fear His holiness, the more I love His mercy.   I don’t know what label you would put on me.  Some might call me fundamentalist, or Bible-thumper.  Some might call me seeker-sensitive, or watered down.  Some might call me fanatic, or out to lunch, but there is one description that I would not deny…”His”.