Our local church has a vision, a mission statement and much more. (Most likely you church does too.) Do you know your church vision? Does your pastor preach scripture to you and your church?
In a brief look at traditional business plans of local churches I provide the saints (church members) with some food for thought.
AWESOME! Amazing beyond human comprehension (if you were not there); not only the Red Sea crossing but more so the appearance of the LORD at Sinai. This is were we left the Hebrews following the LORD and Moses in You Will Not Be Led -4- Death in the Wilderness.
But now after receiving the Law their troubles continue.
18 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram’s horn, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.
19 “You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”
20-21 Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.” And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was.
3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice,
“We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.”
The Covenant Cermony
8 Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said,
“This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”
An Agreement Carved in Stone
12 The Lord said to Moses,
“Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” .. The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days..
18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
The Testing in WAITING for the Promised Land
Moses disappears for more than a month.
Can you wait thirty or forty days or even forty years for God’s answer?
To be continued... .. {for now just think how the Hebrews waited and turn the page.. it's a test}
