Covenants

Covenants are a big deal, did you know that? 

I found out that if I put up the wrong type of fence or build a storage barn our Neighborhood Association Covenant will likely result in me getting reprimanded, fined or even forced to take down the fence or storage barn.  Wow!  These people seem to take this covenant serriously!

But covenants are meant to be taken seriously.  If you look through the Old Testament you see God weaving, creating, adapting and enforcing His covenant with His people.  In fact, it was because His people would not (or could not) keep this covenant with Him that He eventually threw up His hands (so to speak) and decided that something drastic must be done!  The covenant progression kind of went like this...

...God makes a covenant with Adam and Eve that allows them to live in perfect relationship with Him forever in the Garden of Eden.  They break the covenant.  God has to begin again...

...God makes a covenant with Abraham that He will bless Abraham and his family and will bless the whole world through them...if they keep the covenant...but they don't.  God has to begin again...

...God attempts to restore the covenant with people like Isaac, Jacob, David, various Judges, Kings and Prophets...but it never seems to work like God had hoped...God has to begin again...

...God decides that a NEW covenant is needed.  A covenant based not on the righteousness and obedience of the people...but based on God's righteousness, love, justice and mercy...a covenant established by blood...the blood of His one and only Son...Jesus...who would pay the price for the sin, disobedience and failure of so many people...ALL PEOPLE...to keep God's original covenant...This is THE covenant...the final one needed...to reconcile people and the entire creation back to God!

Covenants are a big deal, did you know that?

And now your pastoral staff and Board of Directors is asking you to support a covenant.  A covenant that in essence makes us accountable to our state ministry...and makes them accountable to us.  After all...this is what covenants are...two parties mutually agreeing to be accountable to each other for the sake of a larger, more important cause.  To accomplish something together they they might not be able to accomplish on their own.  This covenant is good...it is coming at the right time...with the right motive...and is worthy of our support.

Covenants are a big deal...in part because when kept, they produce beautiful and powerful results!  God is calling us to a new and powerfully productive day of mission-focused ministry at Mooresville Church of God.  Let's not miss this opportunity!

Copies of this covenant are available on the Welcome Center in the church lobby.  As you have questions email them to the office (info@mooresvillechurch.org)  Our state minister, Dr. Doug Talley, will be with us on Wednesday, June 2 for a Question & Answer time at 7:00 pm.  We will then vote on acceptance of the covenant on Sunday, June 6 immediately following the morning worship service.

Thank you for your partnership in ministry!  Thank you for your prayers and participation in what our God is doing among His people TODAY!

In His Grip,

Pastor John