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…the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. If you want to know how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all. - J.I. Packer

Our church is so full of wonderful volunteers. As a pastor, I see so many sacrifices: people giving of their time to come minister to the neighborhood and to serve this local body of believers! But this episode of Pray the Word with David Platt, challenges all of us who volunteer sacrificially for the cause of Christ. You can access the short 6-minute audio by clicking --> here <--

The challenge is this - are we servants without being sons (or daughters)?"

David retells of the conversion of John Wesley, who had done amazingly sacrifical things for the Lord. Yet, on a missionary trip to America, he realized that he wasn't a Christian at all!

 “I had the faith of a servant, but not that of a son.” 

Remember to open God's Word, pray it over yourself, your family, and the church. But do not go so fast in the service of God that you miss the most important thing - be a child of God!

1 John 3:1

1 See ywhat kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.