Seminar Pastor Bill

If you want something that you never had, you need to do something that you have never done.
A question that may arise is are you angry enough to do something, because everyone talks much but does little.

Many of us are not satisfied with the normal and so we want to CHANGE something.

John 5 Pool 50ft x 100ft The invaled here was not satified and for 38 years. How is it that you can go somewhere with a desire for change and 38 years later nothings happened, nothing changed? It is easy to go with the norm just kinda coast by getting used to that with what you where at first not satified with. Jesus asked the invalid "Do you want to get well?" As Bill put it "Are you willing to do what you need to do to be healed?" because the invalid didn't just sit there and then what needed to be done was done, no, Jesus said "Get up! pick up your mat and walk. It requires an action, rise up take up your crutch (excuse)and go. This is the essence of change take and go.

If I where to talk to you within 3 minutes I better find out your passion. People who are are great have ideas, good people talk about things stuff money, weak people talk about other people and thier accomplishments because they have no life. If you have a passion and an idea to CHANGE something, then it will be mentioned when you introduce yourself to someone.

CHANGE

To bring about change you need to reach a new level of commmunication. We need to communicate our purpose and role as Christians, unfortunatly in a lot of ways we Christains have let the world define who we are. The world is watching us Christians, but they are not listening, because thing is we Christians talk much but do little. Oh the worlds all heard what where about, our purpose and what we satnd for and now thery are watching. Peter stepped out of the boat, listeneing when Jesus said "come" and what where all the other disciples doing? Watching. So people are looking to see if you actually do what you say, your role and purpose. Do you practice what you preach because 83% of what people learn is from thier eyes. For example:
A pastor preaches on commitment and giving your all meanwhile he is in the process of resigning from the church. After the sermin a few kids take thier bibles and throw them in the dumpster. The sin isn't in the emotional thought of giving up, it is when you actually give up. You want people to change, you want people to listen? Then you have to do what you say bescaue many people will not do what you say but will do what they see. It is by seeing and doing that you are empowered to do, to act, to change, and this is an experience. Do more and talk less because it is buy your doing that people may follow.

To CHANGE you need to reach a new level of caring. It is easier to make a contribution than a commitment. It is easier to write a cheque than meet people face to face. A contrbution requires little time little effort, commitment requires much time and much effort. Church should be like a staff meeting where we come together and get charged and equipped for the week to "Get up! pick up your mat and walk." Instead for many its put on the all caring all loving face at church and thats it, Monday I've got my world face on so untill next week see ya later. See they put little time and little effort into church, no commitment here. Question is do you care enough about what is said at church to do what was said? Are we really reaching people? Are you making an impact because it requires a transition out side of the box, above the normal north american way of caring. For example:

A guy doing road construction is in his truck painting the yellow lines in the middle of road. There is a dead cat on the road ahead, but he doesn't stop to take the cat off the road, he paints right over it. The guy argues "I paint the line but I do not move cats." In order to CHANGE you need to reach a new level of caring.

To CHANGE you need to commit. Do what ever it takes, whatever the cost, the problem is we can get to concerned with offending people cause believe me you tell the truth and goats will be offended, but to the goats whoes hearts are ready and you think well who could that be? Answer is we do not know therefore cast seed on all ground cause nothing can grow if the seed isn't planted. Knowone can hear if a person doesn't speak. After Bill Wilson has been shot 3 times stabbed, been in 3 airplane crashes people will often ask him, "How do you keep going?" Bill says "I keep going and do not give up because my comittment is stronger than my emotions." The sin is not necessarily in the thought of giving up, the sin is when you do give up.

So people ask Bill, "Did God call you to New York?" Bill says, "No, the need is the call. You come to a place and you get angry enough to do somthing about it, this is the call, a responsibility to rise up, step up, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." Do it.

Isaiah 6 "Here I am. Send me!"
In the Church many have read about God, been taught about God but haven't really got to know who God really is because you need to get close. Now Isaiah contrains he was kept close in the temple that filled with smoke and in this close moment he says "Woe to me! I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips" now notice the word lips cause talk to someone long enough and out of the abundance of the heart comes the reply of the tongue. Isaiah saw the Lord it whent from an upward vision (seeing) to an inward vision (Woe to me) to an outward vision (response: Here I am. Send me!). I never new Jesus was all I needed until Jesus was all I had. Jesus is enough.

Gods ways should be the norm because his ways are the norm. However to the ones that do not get it, who are blind, and do not see, even if they think they do, well God's ways seem abnormal to them, and they'll either be offended or attracted because God isn't boring he's all about doing things his way, and his way will bring about CHANGE it will be diffrenet, beyond and against that wich is broken, blind not seening and abnormal.

To the unbelievers I say beleieve the abnormal to be normal, simply accept it to be true. To belivers do the things you have not done before the normal things because if you want something that you never had, you need to do something that you have never done.