A Church without Balls!

There are all types of eunuchs in the Bible. One of the 1^st places that eunuchs are mentioned is in reference to Jezebel and the eunuchs that she created to accommodate her idolatress worship of Baal.

A eunuch is a person that has been castrated, taking away the testicles which removes one’s masculinity and thus makes him docile.   If this is done at birth, then as the child grows, he creates feminine tendencies.  The child begins to look more like a woman than a man.  If the castration is done as an adult, the man may look like a man, sound like a man;  but his masculinity has still been removed because he has no balls.

The same religion that Jezebel got almost the entire tribe of Israel to surrender to is a god who cannot speak, cannot bring a fire, and can produce nothing of lasting value in the lives of those who follow that god’s leading. These same castrated Christians are being cultivated today.  We’re creating a society of sinful saints that do not have the balls to stand up for anything which God hates.  

God, please give us an Elijah who will once again rebuild the altars and confront this phony, fake, frivolous, and fruitless bunch of folks, who have filled our pulpits, pews, and our people to the place where we have built a church without balls!

If this particular blog is offensive to you because of its terminologies, then maybe you are one of those people who have become complacent; and you are now a coward, a compromiser, or a corrupter who needs to be confronted because you have been completely castrated by a carnal Christianity.

Just as Jehu was anointed king over Israel, I rise to call you eunuchs and those of you who still have not surrendered your sainthood. Come on, come on, you “ball-less” Bishops, believers, and boys that are in our pulpits! Let’s not be such a friend of this world that we become the enemies of our God.  We will commit spiritual adultery with trying to be so relative to this world that we ruin our relationship with God.

Let us take a stand again into our masculinity and move the church back to its original purpose which is to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. We must repent for the leaders who have lost their balls to be able to deal with the sin of our society; then we shall return to the genuine message  that brings repentance, or else we’ll remain a church without balls!

 Bishop Eric McClellan

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Luke 2:1-7 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

What a wonderful freedom it is to know that Christ Jesus is who he is without any embellishment from us. Christ in us is the Hope of Glory to a lost world. We can be certain today that just as Jesus was the Messiah wrapped in rags in a humble manger, he is Messiah in our weakness as well. Present yourself today as a present and let him unwrap your life from all the things that have you tied up. Give him complete control this Christmas! Have a wonderful HOLY-day!

Bishop Eric McClellan

80/20 Rule in Relationships

 Do you know why you got married?” My wife and I just celebrated our 19th wedding aniversary in November!  As we reflected on all those years we began evaluating alot of what we were and were not getting out of the relationship.

In our relationships with our spouse many times we start thinking about their flaws and fallacies. Getting to see all the things that the person is not fulfilling in our lives often disappoints us and then we stop being able to see all the things they are fulfilling! We don’t like that many of our desires and wants are not being provided by that person.  

Did you know that in most cases, especially in relationships, you will be getting 80% of what you NEED and you will rarely get the other 20% of what you WANT. The danger is that once we make it to the place where we are getting 80%, we start focusing on the 20% we’re not getting; and we become blind to the 80% we are receiving.  Then we begin to complain and grumble about that 20%–ol how we desire that person to provide us with our WANTS! After a while, we start losing sight of the 80% of what they were giving for the 20% of what they were not!  Everybody WANTS the other person to be a 100%! But look at yourself:  you are not a 100% of what the other person WANTS, but you are 80% of what they NEED!

Be real careful; most of the time someone comes along (man or women) that will offer you the other 20%  that you WANT,  which is lacking in your relationship, and you are tempted to trade the 80% for the 20%. And believe me, 20% looks really good when you are not getting it in your current relationship. But the problem is you will always be tempted to leave that good 80% that you know you NEED, thinking that you will get something better with the other 20% that you WANT! Yet reality has proven, in most cases, you will always end up with having the 20% that you WANT and losing the 80% that you really NEED. Please be careful in deciding between what you WANT and what you NEED in your life. 

NOBODY IS GOING TO BE EVERYTHING YOU WANT, BUT ONE PERSON CAN BE A WHOLE LOT OF WHAT YOU NEED!

This week let us focus on the 80% of our NEEDS that are being met by our mate and be appreciative of that person! You may just find that they are not only what you NEED but really what you WANT as well!

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Faith for the Future

This week I began preparing a message on faith and as I was looking over the scripture, waiting for the next few weeks before releasing this word, well, it just was not an option. I pray it will be as much a blessing to you as it was to me! Our God has got some GREAT things planned for us! Don’t you believe that? I believe it! Our creator must have saved the best for last just as he did the wine at the wedding! When most folks bring the worst out at the last, Jesus was waiting for someone to pull the best wine out of him! Let’s quit believing God for the worst to come and let’s believe the best is yet to come!

Jeremiah 29:11-13: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’”

A.   Plans to Prosper Us

How can we be externally prosperous if we have not become prosperous in our soul? We must allow our Mind, will, and emotions to become healthier so that we are capable of handling internal and external blessings!       

B.   Plans to Protect Us

God doesn’t want to harm us; he wants to help us! Do you think we live unaware of how good God has been and what he actually kept us from going through? We should praise God for his protection!

C.  Plans that Give Us Hope

Hope helps us reach the finish line.  It’s the confidence needed to know that we first have a finish, And then know that we will be able to make it to the end.  That’s always looking ahead to our future, knowing that it is not going to be bad but good! There are a lot of people expecting that something bad is going to happen to them. But those who have made peace with God should be looking for the goodness of God!

E.  Plans that Give Us a Future

I like the King James better on this future part.  It says He wants to give us an expected end! Since God knows the end from the beginning, He’s going to give us what he expects our end to be.  That’s good news! He that began a good work in us shall perform it until he comes.

F.  We Should Call on Him and Pray

When we know this through faith, it will produce a pursuit in our lives of seeking God.  When we call and pray to Him, He will hear our prayers.  If we know that He hears, we believe we shall get the answers that we need to live a life full of the spirit.

 G.   We Should Seek Him with All our Heart

Our heart is the well-spring of life and out of it flows all the issues.  When we seek Him with all our heart, we shall find Him.  Let’s discover more and more of Him through seeking Him fully!

 Hey, Guys, have a great week and remember to pass the word to people about how good God is to you!

(Get Ready)New Wine on the Way

Luke 10:38 – 42 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. 39And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. 40But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. 41And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: 42But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

 Martha, just trying to take care of serving what she thinks to be a legitimate need of Jesus, wants to prepare him something to eat. She is probably doing what any other woman would have done if they had the opportunity to have this wonderful guest at their house. As she is serving, she notices very quickly that her younger sister Mary is not up helping her in the responsibility. Mary is sitting down at the feet of Jesus, simply listening to him talk. Martha becomes aggravated and irritated about Mary not helping her do the work that she thinks needs to be done.

When Martha addresses this situation with Jesus, the person she thinks will help her get it resolved, she says, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Please tell her to help me.” Now, when Jesus gives the answer , it’s not Mary that he addresses with the problem but Martha. “Martha, you’re concerned about a whole lot of things, but only one thing is needful, and Mary has chosen that which is best, which shall not be taken away from her.”

In another passage of scripture when asked if someone had given Him meat, Jesus replied, “My meat is to do the will of the father who sent me. Jesus was fed by ministering to the needs of others. Then in Mark Chapter Ten, He says, “I came not to be ministered unto but to minister.”

The powerful truth that is conveyed in this story is that Martha was just busy trying to feed Jesus! But Mary, who was sitting down, was doing the real feeding of Jesus by providing him her own hunger. How about you today? Are you trying to get Jesus to get someone to help you with what you’re doing or are you ready to sit down and let him be the supplier to your every need!

Martha is a picture of people who are trying to give Jesus the sacrifice of their service. It’s not a bad thing; it’s just not the best thing. It makes us feel better but has no power to make us better. Martha is a picture of people who are under the law, still trying to give God their own abilities and they always come up short; and they start getting mad at other people because they’re running out of energy. Mary is a picture of people under grace, just receiving from Jesus the Word of life and love that gives a wonderful supply for others and we never run dry!

Are you living more like Mary or Martha today?

 The message that we have presented as preachers is often filled with a good balance of Grace and Law. Yet Jesus told us that new wine can’t be poured into old wine skins because the wine would expand, the bottles would brust and the wine would be wasted. God wants to supply us with His power through grace to receive this wonderful wine (the Holy Spirit)! We must recognize that we are empty and stop trying to supply our needs through our own works. We must simply sit at his feet and receive the new wine so that we can have a full, expansive life. Jesus said, “As you have freely received, freely give. We get from God, not by trying but trusting, not by running but resting, not by wondering but by praying—that’s where we will find, strength of our Lord!

Redeeming The Time

 So, then, be careful how you live. Do not be unwise but wise, ¹⁶making the best use of time because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16 ISVNT

King Solomon had to have one of the most brilliant minds of all time. He is described as one of the wisest men that ever lived. It is evident, if we view his writing in Ecclesiates 3, that he was able to grasp the concept of time managment. In verse number one he states that everything has a season and a time to every purpose.

A group of us were meeting together to pray and study the word of God in the mornings, and we were challenged last week by the verse in Ephesians Chapter Five:  ”Redeem the time,” as it says in the King James version.  As we began to review where and how our time was being spent, we noticed that we were wasting one of the most valuable gifts that God has given us. We all kept saying,  ”Where has this month gone?” and “Hasn’t this year flown by?”  Yet one of  the reasons we were unaware of the loss of all that time is because we  recognized that we hadn’t taken advantage of every moment.

As we began to make a list of the things we needed to accomplish and the tasks that we were already doing, we decided to make a plan of how best to start making every moment count.  Life is going by so fast these days. It seems that we must begin redeeming the time as soon as possible or we will wake up and be so old that our lives will be filled with much regret.

God has allotted us all a certain amount of time.  Why not evaluate your time and start controlling it, instead of it keeping your life out of control?

How do we redeem the time?  First you have to understand that redeeming the time means to make the best use of the time that God gives you on this earth. Allow me to share with you the top three things that we can do to redeem the time.

1. Make a list of things that you regularly need to do during the day.

2. Then list things that you need to get accomplished.

3. Prioritize the list in onder of first things first.

4.  Now place them on your day timer and begin the process of seeing how much productivity you can have during your day.

Note:   It is important that you get rid of all the unnecessary things in your life.
* Arguments with insignificant people.
*Worrying about things that you cannot change.
*Filling the voids in your life with things that will never bring you joy.

You also have to unload unhealthy habits that will prevent you from running your race:

• * talking with time wasters–unhealthy phone calls;
  * texting continually with people who have nothing to do;
• * people just dropping in or hanging around robing your schedule of productivity.

Please do not waste your time in life on things that are meant to steal your time.  You can redeem the time by unloading all of the time-consuming enemies of your life.  REDEEM THE TIME!

 

Just a small disclosure -  for those that don’t want to have a time for every purpose -please if you don’t want to stop wasting your time don’t waste the ones that are trying to redeem theirs.

The Trail of Faith

“If you have faith as a mustard seed … nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).

When I was young in Christ, my faith toward God was based on prayers  that consisted of my circumstances being changed to accommodate me.  I remember praying for an engagement at the First United Methodist Church that I was asked to preach for.  I think this was my first sermon!  I was recently called to preach, but I didn’t have a suit or any nice clothes or shoes to wear, so I prayed to God one night, telling Him that I didn’t have a suit or any shoes to preach in, and I asked Him  to please provide these for me.  When I woke up  the next morning and went to work, about mid-day one of the sisters from the church pulled up outside. She was carrying a bag from JC Penney’s.  She said that the Lord woke her up that night and told her she needed to go get these two suits, two shirts, two ties, and the shoes for the ministry God was calling me to. They were brand spanking new and I was amazed at how quick God, who was the only one I had told, came through for me. Yet this was the elementary or embryonic stage of development for my faith where I learned how to relate to God as a blesser.

There is no need to become too comfortable with this revelation of Christ because my faith must grow beyond making God become everything I want Him to be instead allowing Him to reveal all of who he is to me! I must grow to the place that He doesn’t have to answer so quickly or even at all. I must develop a confidence in Christ, knowing that He is God! I must believe that all things work together for the good of those that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose–that He is bigger than my circumstances and capable of testing the caliber of my faith with the crisis He sends or allows to touch me.

A faith that cannot be tested can’t be trusted!  He often shows me who He is by what He is not!  God is light, but what is light if we haven’t had darkness?  God is good, but what is goodness if we haven’t experinced what is bad?  God is a healer, but what is a healer if we haven’t been sick!  We understand who God is by experiencing what he is not!

Don’t let the trying of your faith test your trust to the place where you turn your Christ into a crisis solver.  But allow Him to show you who He is by sometimes placing you in things that He is not! That is where I find that the impossible is possible by being place only in an inviroment of impossiblities!