How to Skin Your Fear and Grant the Peace of of Christ Permission to Com...

Here's my sermon at St. John's Presbyterian Church 

in Houston, Texas on May 26, 2019.



I talked about the peace of Christ, centering prayer, 

Caesar Augustus, the Pax Romano, Bowen systems theory

suggestion to maintain a "less anxious presence"

and Vital Congregations.

Facebook: Well how do you LIKE that?

Our Facebook Page number of LIKES nearly doubled in size last week.

It's amazing what happens when you ask because when you ask you shall receive.

After asking 2,200 of my Facebook Friends to Like the St. John's Presbyterian Church Facebook Page, more than 125 of them took action. They Liked the Page.

Now, when someone who lives around the church searches for us on Facebook, they will have better social proof that here is a church that is alive and active. Therefore, they are more likely to want to find out more about us.

Put into theological language, how are we making disciples?

How are we sharing the good news of Jesus Christ?
Are there other ways we could share it in addition to the ways we share it now?

While we are not held responsible for their response to our invitation, we most certainly are held responsible by God for sharing the good news. That is a responsibility we dare not shirk or cast aside.

Ask somebody. Tell somebody.

Talk about Jesus more and more to people you love and may your circle of love safely expand.

Increase the frequency of your Jesus talk because actions speak louder than words and we are more likely to get the action right if we are speaking it into being.