Five Things I Need You To Know | Pastor Chris Searcy

Five things that I need you to know

1 Thessalonians 5:12

Our Vision:

Ephesians 4:13

13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become

mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:12 KJV

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the

Lord, and admonish you;

to acknowledge/to honor/to know

Greek

εἰδέναι (eidenai)

Verb - Perfect Infinitive Active

To know, remember, appreciate.

So here are 5 things I need you to know

I am wrecked by the Gospel of Jesus Christ:

My wife and I have a burning desire to see God exalted in families.

To see men regain their place in God and in the home.

Proverbs 27:8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

#1. 85% of youth who are currently in prison grew up in a fatherless home. (Texas Department

of Corrections)

#4. Children from fatherless homes are twice as likely to drop out of school.

#13. 75% of adolescent patients being treated in substance abuse centers are from fatherless

homes. (U.S. Department of Justice)

#15. 90% of the youth in the United States who decide to run away from home, or become

homeless for any reason, originally come from a fatherless home. (U.S. Department of Justice)

#28. Children who live in a fatherless home are 279% more likely to deal drugs or carry firearms

for offensive purposes compared to children who live with their fathers. (Allen and Lo)

If a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3.5% probability

everyone else in the household will follow. If the mother is the first to become a Christian, there

is a 17% probability everyone else in the household will follow. However, when the father is

first, there is a 93% probability everyone else in the household will follow. 

We are committed to sanctification rooted in the fear of the Lord.

We will not compromise!

Hebrews 10:26-31

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer

remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will

consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on

the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be

deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood

of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we

know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his

people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.