Originally posted on Facebook on Sunday, April 23, 2023.

Just today I enjoyed fellowshipping with New Horizons Christian Fellowship and received a powerful equipping message.

Guest Pastor Alan Hawkins preached that the church is not as effective as it should be in its mission.

He remarks that we "need to get saved enough" to fulfill the mission of making disciples (Yes, I hear this sermon almost immediately **after** my post this morning about discipleship. Coincidence?)

Pastor Hawkins then starts to draw this out from 1 Corinthians 10. He opens boldly, "I promise you this will blow your minds." Pretty cliche, right?

Has anybody revealed or explained something and afterward you're left wondering what just happened?

A taste:

"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."
-1 Corinthians 10:13

"How do you escape temptation?"

"Flee". See 1 Corinthians 10:13.

"To the Lord's communion." See 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

We must push back from the table of the demons of our idolatry and perversions, Pastor Hawkins argues. He continues, it is in communion with Christ that we are able to find "the way of escape" from temptation, and through taking on His life by consuming Him that we are equipped to fulfill our mission of making disciples.

Tip of the iceberg.

Mind indeed blown.

Thank you, Pastor Alan Hawkins.