Originally posted by JSTUS
When I was in law school, I visited my current church and learned so much from the pastor's sermons. After graduation, I moved back home to take a job. A year later God gave me an offer to move back to this city with an outstanding job. I knew that also was my sign to join the church that I had visited. Everything that I wasn't getting out of my home church was present in that church. PROGRESSIVENESS. I prayed about joining because my concern was that because it had the largest black congregation in the city(several thousand) and two locations, I felt I would be just another number. God had given me so many outreach ideas that I was eager to get moving. So, as soon as I got unpacked, I just stepped out on faith and joined. Immediately, I got busy. I joined auxillaries in the church and even presented a proposal to the pastor to start a legal ministry which he approved. Now, I am at the church several days a week, just working for God's people in any way I can. I have learned that we are a big church in terms of the number of people that are members and attend Sunday worship service. But when you get down to the number that are there working for God, trying to help the church to go to the next level, faithful in attending bible study and other church programs that number dimishes drastically to maybe 200. I meet people all the time that say "that church is too big, the pastor can't possibly know his members." I tell them that if they were working in the church Pastor would know them by name and they would see that the church is just big on Sunday. We are a big building with a big roll book, but actually we are operating like a small church family.
I said all of this to say. Pray on it and just step out of faith. You have no idea how God wants to use you in serving His people and enhancing your own personal relationship with Him. Keep in mind that God commands us to dwell together in His name.
