Michael Harrison's e-devotion

We are blessed with great partners.  People are blessings.  That is one reason why this week we have a mission team helping at our new campus from South Carolina.  They are awesome.  In fact the leader of this team, Pastor David Moore, has brought more teams and help than any other.  I want to say THANK YOU and ask you to pray for David and his church, Pacolet First Baptist.   It doesn’t end there.  Also with us for a day has been a pastor and youth pastor from a church that was here early in the summer and who are planning to serve an apartment community in December.  These guys, Michael and Ethan, bless me big time.  They are from Mount Pleasant Baptist in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Then I get a text from a great friend who shows up to work for a day and a half with us.  Jim is a chaplain at South Boston Speedway and lives near Waynesboro, Virginia.  He showed up, climbed on a scissor lift, and began working with the team. These...

Psalms 133:1 (NLT) How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony! Partners are always sought after in the work we are doing through The Community Fellowship.   Our desire is to point people toward Jesus.   It is not about building our church, but it is about building the big “C” church or the kingdom of God.   When we partner with others, this becomes a reality. By choosing to partner with other people we make a loud statement to the people we live around.   Most people think that Christians and churches fight or are in competition, and in reality we have all experienced this.   Competition could not be further from what God commanded His children to be about.   We are to work together to make the world stronger all the while sharing Jesus with everyone we meet. If the goal is to fill one church or to make one organization bigger or better than others, then we fail.   We all fail.   When the goal is to ma...