Effective Soul Winning - Joey Burns (11.09.2016)

Matthew 4:18-22 (KJV)

¹⁸ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

¹⁹ And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

²⁰ And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

²¹ And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

²² And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

"We come in contact with people who need God in their lives. We need to be who God needs us to be."

"We need to see people the way Jesus sees people."

"We all must live a consistent Christian life to people."

As men and women of God we need to be honest even when the world around us is dishonest."

"If you're gonna reach the lost you have to learn the word of God!"

-- Joey Burns

Come, Follow Me - Pastor Joey Burns (11.06.2016)

Luke 18:18-22 (KJV)

¹⁸ And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

¹⁹ And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

²⁰ Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

²¹ And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

²² Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

"The only great thing I've done is respond to God and let Him lead me into an alter of prayer & surrender my life to Jesus Christ. I was willing to say "Lord, I will follow you!"

-- Joey Burns

Soul Winners Are Needed - The Sun is Sinking; Opportunities Will Soon Be Gone - Pastor Joey Burns (11.06.2016)

John 9:1-4 (KJV)

9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

² And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

³ Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

⁴ I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

"It takes men, women, boys & girls working together as a church, as a team, people who are willing to sacrifice their own interest for their Kingdom of God."

"God's business is the most important business that there is!"

"We need to stop and reevaluate some things. Stop and set some priorities in our life because God's business is the most important business!"

"God's calling upon our life is more than just coming to church and a filling a pew because God is calling each and every one of us!"

-- Joey Burns

Religious But Lost - Associate Pastor Brad Stevens (10.30.2016)

Acts 17:16-23 (KJV)

¹⁶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

¹⁷ Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

¹⁹ And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

²¹ (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

²² Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

²³ For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

"If Jesus ain't in it, you don't need it! If the God of Heaven hasn't ordained it you don't need it in your life!"

"We're not doing the lost any favors when we accept their way of life!"

"When it comes to Jesus Christ we can't afford to be quiet!"

"Being a Christian, being a servant of the living God, being a follower of Him, requires more devotion than the majority of the people who claim to have him are giving him!"

-- Brad Stevens

Only A United Church Can Reach A Divided World - Pastor Joey Burns (10.30.2016)

Isaiah 6:4-8 / John 20:21 (KJV)

⁴ And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

⁶ Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

⁷ And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

⁸ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

²¹ Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

"When it comes to denominations and politics; all they do is divide people."

"We can't come to church with each other and go home and talk about everybody... we can't come to church and worship like we do and go out in the world and live like the devil... we have to be a living example of Jesus Christ. We are a representative of our church and of Jesus Christ."

"There are people who don't like you just because you're a Christian but that doesn't mean you have to change who you are."

"Don't close your ears when the house is shaking around you! Don't close your ears when God's voice is speaking to you!"

"The church of Jesus Christ is victorious today! It's alive today! And it's moving forward in unity!"

"Every denomination is to be united because our faith and our Savior unites us!"

"We live in a time today where the sins of the flesh have made their way into the house of God! That's not God's will! It's not God's will for us to be in a state of immoral being!"

"God is not finished with us yet! God is still on the throne!"

"The hope of the world, the hope of society today, is Jesus Christ!"

-- Joey Burns