Fail Forwrd

Yesterday was such a Failure....no just kidding. As you know we learned about Failing Forward. Every dream you have will have moments of failure. Steps along the journey that are not what you thought would happen and are marked with a failure.

Remember this.....Failure Is Not:
* Avoidable
* The Enemy
* Irreversible
* Final

Failure can be used as a learning step and one that test your resolve! Those who never move because they are afraid of failure....will never live their dreams. Those who stop every time a failed step is taken....will never complete any dream journey. All great God given dreams will have the risk and reality of failure. The difference between living in our dreams or not.....is our perception and response to those failures.

As we have learned as a staff at this church....if you are not having a few failures...you are not trying hard enough and taking enough calculated risk! Dare to Dream.....Act on those dreams......be resolved in your heart to fail forward!

Go to our interactive Believe In Now website to read others dreams and what they are doing and record your own. Myteamchurch.com

Today's Bible Reading 1 Cor 7 & 8

One of the favorite passages of married men! Chapter 7:1-5 talks specifically about few things in marriage. First of all in the troubled times these folks were living, Paul agrees with a statement that he had already made earlier to THESE people about staying single. There are times in a person's life or in the setting in which they are living that getting married is not the smart thing to do.

However, Paul tells them, if they desire to be married and thus sexually active then they should get married even though it may not be the bet time and of course they should only have sex with their spouse. Moreover, Paul addresses an issue that was happing in marriage. That being the issue of the two becoming one. Meaning that when you get married your body no longer belongs to you alone...but to your spouse. Sex in marriage is not only a beautiful event...it is also a need in marriage if the marriage is to be healthy and fulfilling. Paul even gives a warning, never deprive the other from this married act except for mutual consent and because you are devoting yourself to prayer. If a spouse is put on a sex diet.....then Paul says it becomes very hard for that person not to look around at the cheap fast food places around town!