It is with great joy that I can invite people to the place where I was born. Hello, I am not referring to my first birth; but to my born again experience with Jesus Christ. The two places contrast in love, excellence and equipping. As a child, there were never invitations handed out or implied that invited kids over to my house. It was an unsafe place. In that environment I had been shamed through sexual abuse. Anger was a common emotion that made us “family”.
On the other hand, when I invite friends and family to where I was born, my real birth. The place I crawled into broken, distraught, tainted, full of sexual sin and drug addiction, emotional bondage and literally spiritually sick is my home church, Shoreline Christian Center www.shoreline.net, it is also the place where I give back the life that Jesus gave to me.
1 Peter 1:3-4 (NLT), “All honor to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for it is by his boundless mercy that God has given us the privilege of being born again...For God has reserved a priceless inheritance for his children. It is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.”
So sweet is my Father in heaven to allow me to be born in a house full of grace, generosity and discipleship. For these are what I needed to experience in order to become who God the Father chose long ago, and the Holy Spirit has made me into today.
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