Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is the big day. Thanksgiving is a great time to focus our selfish hearts on God. Too bad we can't do that throughout the whole year. I think often that this shouldn't be an annual event in the believer's life. Thankfulness should be a non-stop everyday occurrence. A true believer's heart will always be grateful to God.

Sunday night our church had it's annual Thanksgiving Dinner. It's a great time of fellowship and focus. We offer a time of "open mic" if you will. At this time people come up and express how thankful they are to God for something that He's done in their lives in the past year. Some ladies from a women's shelter and rehab center shared their stories of life change. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. We got to witness true thankfulness through their stories of God's redemption and goodness.

I shared a little at the end about what I was thankful for. I shared some stats from our church, not for bragging rights or any accolades for any man. These are God's stats. These are stats that show how good God is to people as He changes them for eternity. We had a total of 108 decisions in 2008. That 5 times what we had in 2007. We've had 28 baptisms in 2008. That's 4 times what we had in 2007. We've had 27 families join our fellowship this year. That's 2 and 1/2 times the families that joined in 2007. As you can see, God is still doing His amazing heart work in people. These, lives, souls, saved and changed forever, are something to be thankful for.

God is doing His wonderful work in our church. I'm most thankful for that!