TITLE: Don't Order Vanilla
TEXT: Exodus 3:4-7
PROPOSITION: God offers us far more choices than we seek.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Choices
READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
The Far Side - wife says, "I want you to be more assertive. I'm tired of everyone calling you Alexander the Pretty Good."
In worship - Don't choose vanilla!
I. Singing
1. Learn new songs
2. Shake the rafters off the building
3. Spirit and understanding 1 Corinthians 14:15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
II. Prayers
1. We have puny prayers from puny faith.
2. Challenge: Let's "out-ask" God.
3. Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
4. Pious platitudes, vain repetitions = vanilla
III. Lord's Supper
1. "Do this in remembrance of me."
2. Discern the Lord's body
3. Not habit, routine
IV. Sermons and Bible Classes
1. Alive, "Icicles in pews, polar bear in pulpit."
2. Sermonettes are delivered to Christianettes
3. No preacher has the right to bore you to death.
4. Meeting preachers should be more dynamic than the local men.
5. Keep the message ALIVE
V. Giving Exodus 36:3-5 3And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning. 4Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing, 5and they spoke to Moses, saying, “The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded us to do.”
1. Has the preacher begged you to stop?
2. Cheerfully, happy, with joy
3.
No more - leftovers for God, OK?