The Church where Everybody is Somebody

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The purpose of this church shall be the advancement of the kingdom of God, through Jesus Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, as taught in the Holy Scripture, through public worship of God, preaching of the Gospel, constant Christian living by its members, personal evangelism, missionary endeavor, and Christian education.

 From the Pastor

The Pastor's Desk, Abandonment
Our Lord replies, in effect, that abandonment is for Himself, and not for what the disciples themselves will get from it. Beware of an abandonment which has the commercial spirit in it—‘I am going to give myself to God because I want to be delivered from sin, because I want to be made holy.’ All that is the result of being right with God, but that spirit is not of the essential nature of Christianity. Abandonment is not for anything at all. We have got so comer-cialized that we only go to God for something from Him, and not for Himself. It is like saying—‘No, Lord, I don’t want Thee, I want myself; but I want myself clean and filled with the Holy Ghost; I want to be put in Thy showroom and be able to say—“This is what God has done for me.” ‘If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest. That we gain heaven, that we are delivered from sin, that we are made useful to God—these things never enter as considerations into real abandonment, which is a personal sovereign preference for Jesus Christ Himself.
When we come up against the barriers of natural relationship, where is Jesus Christ? Most of us desert Him—‘Yes, Lord, I did hear Thy call; but my mother is in the road, my wife, my self-interest, and I can go no further.’ ‘Then,’ Jesus says, ‘you cannot be My disciple.’
The test of abandonment is always over the neck of natural devotion. Go over it, and God’s own abandonment will embrace all those you had to hurt in abandoning. Beware of stopping short of abandonment to God. Most of us know abandonment in vision only.

Greater Northside will not be having any church services this week, including Sunday Morning Worship Service. If you want to pay your church obligations, please feel free to drop it off to the Church Secretary on Monday from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. If you have any questions please call the church at 217-429-7621. Please continue to check this page for any updates.