Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone

For many of us this week (especially the youth and young adults this week), it will be a week of new experiences in which we must fully place our trust in God. 

• Last week our youth and young adults worked at the local food kitchen.
• On Sunday our youth conducted the entire service from start to finish, selected the text, selected the music, selected the bulletin covers, and finally stood be a crowded congregation and gave God's Word for the week. 
• On Tuesday our youth and young adults will be in Nashville working with "The Bridge" ministry.

Brothers and Sisters, many times God asks us to step out of our comfort zones and to venture into new areas of ministry that many of us would call the "Unknown". We truly understand that true ministry often happens in God's time and not ours, and is often conducted in the unlikeliest of places.

The things that God supplies to us when we leave our comfort zone are:

1. The stress of our everyday existence is taken away from us, if even for just a short time.
2. We actually find the out of the comfort zone moments to be fun, fulfilling, and places in which we can truly see and feel our salvation.
3. God knows us better than we know ourselves and will place us in areas that He needs us, instead of where we need us.
4. As we are able to see hope in action, we are actually given an opportunity to make God's creation a little better, by being the Body of Christ.
5. By stepping out of our comfort zones we are seeing God supplying us with the needed learning and living, that keeps everyone of us fresh and new as a people of God.

My prayer for you this week is that you step out of your comfort zones and place yourself in a "Where the Rubber Meets the Road" ministry.  Because when we leave our comfort zones, we find ourselves in a zone in which the magic truly happens. "If God is for us, who can be against us?"

May you have an out of your comfort zone week

Pastor Tim

Romans 8:29-32

English Standard Version (ESV)

29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

God's Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[a] against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?