So in a couple of hours I’ll have the honor to marry my pastor, Derek and future wife Miranda, and am looking forward to this ceremony. When Derek first ask me to marry them I did not know what to say, because in one hand the Bible does not give clear instructions about marriage, because after all Christ is really the one bringing these two together. On the other hand, I also figured that if Christ has mandated that we lead people to Him (through His Spirit) and baptize them; and even notified us that we could even perform greater miracles than He did. So why not partake in leading the unity of a marriage ceremony?

I find it amazing how much we all in leadership staff are learning about ministry because really we do not have much experience but yet Christ has set us in this role and is teaching us to not be intimidated. Basically, to boast, as Derek preached on last Sunday, on the power of Christ’s sacrifice at the Cross. For the reason that is not easy being called “pastor” and having or being responsible for spiritual care of a number of persons. But yet we delight in fulfilling the call Christ has given us. And find joy in building Christ center fellowship with the amazing people He keeps bringing to His church.

We must take our Lords promises seriously and gratefully

1 Corinthians 2

9However, as it is written:

   “No eye has seen, no ear has heard,

   no mind has conceived 

what God has prepared for those who love him”

Psalm 12:6

6 And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.

Program 7.06.08

Go outside………………………………..……………………..……Amj

Announcements

Opening scripture: Job 11:5-6

Oh worship the King…………………………………….F#mj

Marvelous light……………………………………………Amj

Found. …………………………………………………………F#mj

Lead me to the cross……………………………………F#m

Message: Tearing down booths

Jonah by Jimmy Reeves…………………………………………..Bm 

What an amazing Sunday! Today we were reminded “to not get comfortable” to not be Sunday Christians who only rejoice in God on a Sunday morning service bass; But to do our best to live a life in our city of Greenville that draws people to the Cross of Jesus…

Sunday’s is a day that I look forward to everyday of the week but one thing that I do pay attention to is that the following Sunday is a product of the previous one, therefore I look for results. One way we can view the effects of what God is revealing to us is by whether or not we are attracting people to Jesus through His Spirit in us. And today’s message came from the book of Jonah, who knew of God’s abounding grace and love and refused to act in spreading the great news of God. This was in modern days a Christ follower whom refused to share Jesus in his surroundings, who knew doctrine, knew Jesus but yet the message did not move his heart and instead of offering himself as a tool for the Gospel he much rather kill himself then to spread the news of Jesus. But God’s response to such Christian mediocrity is given in Jonah 4:11. 

Conclusion: God is concern about Greenville N.C and the rest of the world knowing Jesus. Are you?

Psalm 32….this psalm is a reminder of the importance of living a prayer life style. The psalmist (David) here is saying that he has not kept contact with God, he says that he has been “silent”. Or maybe he thinks he’s been in contact but just doing it out of religiosity, just b/c he has to and because he represents the authority over a nation therefore he has to attend meetings and act like he really keeps a relationship with God. But, the story behind the psalm tells us that he hasn’t kept sincere contact w/God through prayer and instead he’s been a fake believer (a fake Christian).

            You know David had so much ruling power, so much to the point where it might have gotten to him and figured he could do whatever he wanted and get away w/out anyone catching him. In this case he had taking a friends wife and slept with her and then figured that all things could get settled by killing the husband. Yes, this was a leader of God. In today’s terms we can compare his title to any church leader like: pastors, evangelists or worship directors. So really God’s leaders are going to make big mistakes too, remember they are human. But the consequence of committing sin still stands…But going back to David, he was refusing to “acknowledge” his sin and figured he could carry on with his life carrying this baggage.

            TO carry baggage of sin around with us is just too painful: “my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long”.  Recognizing that we are sinners in need of a savior on the other hand makes us one with God himself. And as a result we can experience God’s forgiveness and “shout for joy” b/c we are only made righteous in Christ. 

Last night’s town hall meeting was LOOONG and there is still no resolution which keeps us clueless where this whole issue of rezoning Unks (restaurant where we have our services) will go….It was pretty cool seeing a great number of people and business leaders supporting that Unks not close and obviously there stood HarmonyChurch supporting a bar to remain open (is that not something?)… We need this bar to remain open, its the place where we meet to draw people to Jesus and worship Jesus. But after reading todays 2:9 devotional on Psalm 14: “for God is whith the generation of the righteous”, therefore we’ll continue to seek His will and favor.  

Chacho (dude!)…So I’m reading the news and I came across an article stating that they found $84 million worth of marijuana plants growing in Harnett County, which is about 1.4 hrs. away from G-vegas….Das alot of dolares….As we say here @ HarmonyChurch office “keep the oil” you never know what your neighbors might be planting on their patio, that is unless you know the smell.  <http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/3025668/>

As I was leaving Berni’s &  Mike’s house today (around 3:30 pm) I ran across lots of smoke and little by lil began to realize that our city of Greenville was smoking. Actually it all began to make more sense as hours later we could see more smoke outside the church’s office and its been about 4 hrs. and I just read in DailyReflector that the smoke will continue to worsen through Thursday. They say that what happened was that a fire “consumed more than 40,000 acres or 63 square miles”.  Das crazy dauwg! and in addiition the smoke will spread all the way to Raleigh and Fayetville (alaba al que vive!).

Derek, Brad and I get to attend luncheon @ Vintage 21 in Raleigh which is like a mini church planting conference…So I guess the driving continues for Pablo.

Was good guys….I’m back in greenville and day by day adjusting to a new routine w/out school. Here are a list of events that took place during my break:

1. Got to spend time w/my girlfriend for 2 weeks (”chido” = awesome).

2. Went to nephews birthday party (Daniel) and got to hang out with some family.

3. Went to girlfriend’s brother’s graduation @ UNCG.

4. Stayed in Charleston for a week/ for Southern conference baseball tournament w/my “novia” (girlfriend) and her   fam.

5. Had a graduation family party (like 25 people, house was packed) and gifts were great.

6. Got to visit my home church (which I hadn’t in like a yr) and played keyboard for their worship service.

So, yea overall my break was awesome and the best part of it was certainly spending time w/my novia. But, now its time to get back to focus.