Challenge for All Men - Perry Noble

Perry Noble, pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, recently blogged about a sermon from a series of his entitled "All In". Here is an excerpt from that blog:

#3 – If we are walking with God we will constantly be shaped and transformed more and more into the image of Jesus.  Some of the things we shared on Sunday about this…

Single men…Jesus had a job!  He was a carpenter until the age of 30 and then did ministry!  He was not a boy who shaved…He was a man (please see I Corinthians 13:11!)  He didn’t live in Mary’s basement, watch youtube clips with his buddies until 2am, sleep until lunch, go get a cheeseburger from a drive thru, come home and play games and then get on Facebook around 5:00 or so to see which woman He wanted to use and manipulate that evening!

Single guys…Jesus treated women with respect & admiration…He never sought to use them or manipulate them in any way.

(BTW…I wrote an article last week entitled, “EIGHT WRONG REASONS FOR DATING A GIRL” that was written to challenge guys, you can check it out here if you think it may help!)
Married guys…Jesus had a job but He was not a work-a-holic!

Dads…Jesus had time for children (see Matthew 19:13-14) – we MUST have time for ours!         (I wrote more about that here in a post about dating my daughter)

Too many dads today want to give their kids PRESENTS…when they really want our PRESENCE!

Married guys…Jesus hasn’t walked away from His bride (the church), we should NEVER walk away from ours!

Men…Jesus was generous, we should be as well.  People who get closer to Jesus get more generous–period!

#4 – Men, if the Lord convicted and corrected you on Sunday (as He did me) then rejoice in that and move on!  None of us have ever out-sinned the grace of God!  He can STILL USE YOU!  Adam screwed up and He still used him!  In fact, every Bible hero we have (other than Jesus) was a complete screw up and God worked in and through them anyway!  If you are still breathing then it is NOT TO LATE to make right what has been wrong for so long!

To see Perry's blog in its entirety, click here.