BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Christian responsibility

Responsibility is accountability as a Christian. In a sermon, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching at BRINGING BACK GOD, in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, “responsibility isn’t trying to correct or fix your weaknesses; that’s what arrogance tries to do. Rather it’s simply admitting “I’m wrong”. God can work with that.  It’s carrying the burden instead of palming it off. The opposite of responsibility is blame or ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. Without you taking responsibility for your own behavior you cannot be saved.

Most Christians don’t know how to take responsibility. They’re sorry as long as they share the blame, or they ignore it and hope no one says anything. In fact, most Christians tell the other person that they are the one who is responsible to say they’re wrong and hold a grievance until they do. Most Christians manipulate others with bribery or niceness to fix their problems instead of taking the responsibility themselves.

Unlike the prodigal, most Christians wait for the father to chase after them to bring them back to their position. That’s because they don’t think they are prodigal in their heart, but the real truth is, most Christians are the older brother looking like they’re helping the father but really in their blindness of heart, manipulating his response for their own benefit and self-value. This is exposed when someone else gets the better deal.

May God open the eyes of His remnant to their own pride instead of blaming others for the injustice”

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God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Will He take me back?

Backsliding means you go backwards spiritually and morally, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, during sermons given at BRINGING BACK GOD in BRISTOL and  MARIETTA. Your journey as a Christian is like walking an unknown trail: you have ups, downs, and unexpected turns.  As a hiker, you never want to turn around and go backwards. It is the same with the walk of a Christian. According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, when a believer backslides or goes backwards, he falls back in some way into a less desirable condition.  It may be something as simple as neglecting to pray, neglecting to read the Bible, and losing his focus on God. It could also be intentional, where a believer deliberately chooses to take part in life’s sinful pleasures.  This type of backsliding can carry disastrous consequences, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS. “It can bring dishonor to the One who laid down His life for us, Jesus Christ. It can also sadden and bring grief to the lives of loved ones.”  Backsliding will bring turmoil into the believer’s life: guilt and despair, shame and discouragement, and feelings of condemnation are not uncommon.

The Good News is that God will not condemn him. God’s love for us is unending, forever. He is there for us even when we backslide. The parable of the prodigal son, the lost son, shows God’s love and compassion for us.

The parable of the prodigal son is only found in Luke 15. The story is told by Jesus to “publicans and sinners”.  The Pharisees and scribes were self righteous toward Jesus, murmuring that he ate with sinners….a perfect setting for the parable. The story tells of a father who had two sons.  The youngest son, who by Jewish law receives a smaller portion of inheritance, asked his father for his inheritance, turned it into cash, and left his home for another country and blew his inheritance in “riotous living.”  After all his money was gone, a famine struck the country  where he was, and he was forced to work for someone there taking care of pigs…for the Jews, this was offensive because this was forbidden by Jewish law.  It was the lowest of the low for the son.  The son would have eaten what the pigs were given he was so destitute.  He realized that he would be better off in his father’s home as a servant, since he had sinned against his father by his actions and deeds. His intent was to return to his father and seek employment as a servant.  Instead, his father saw him coming while he was still “a great way away….his father had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.  And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son”.  Instead of being angry, the father threw a banquet for him and said “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.” (Luke 15:11-24, KJV) How much more our Father in Heaven loves us and will take us back when we come to realize how we have gone backwards.  The Lord calls the backslider back to Himself through the work of the Holy Spirit. How perfect is that?  He does not condemn us, we are forgiven through the sacrifice of Jesus, because of the love that God has for us. What a promise He has given us.

You can hear sermons recorded by   PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on the internet by going to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  See what is happening at BRINGING BACK GOD by visiting the website, www.bringingbackgod.com.  You can view a clip of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on YouTube, he preaches like no one you have ever heard. If you need fellowship, you can reach PASTOR JOHN COLLINS through email at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.  Have a blessed Sunday.

God bless you!

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