The Vision: To lead the church and the unchurched into the realization that peace, passion, purpose, and eternal life comes only through the process of walking out this life with the understanding of what was given to us on the cross by Jesus Christ!
God's Plan!
God's plan has always been to fellowship with His creation. After sin entered this world through disobedience, God set in motion the plan to restore His creation back into fellowship with Him. The Bible is clear on this. Restoration and fellowship can only be accomplished through Christ Jesus, because of His obedience to the Father on the cross on our behalf. In that one glorious moment the veil between the Father and His children was torn down, giving us access to a wonderful relationship with Him. Too often, with most Christians, religion has put that veil back up making it impossible to commune with the Father.
At "The House" it is our desire to help keep that veil down, through faith in Christ so that communication with the Father always stays open!
Is there a better way?
I am sure that in your endeavor to find God you have found yourselves in different churches wondering if this could be that place that God has led you to, only to be left bewildered and/or frustrated. So now you find yourself at another place called “The House” and you find yourself saying “Why, this place?” I’ll see if I can answer that question for you. In the summer of 1999 God told me that change was coming to the church! Why? Well for one, the way many churches today operate, it just flat doesn't’t work well. It’s not the pattern that Christ gave to us. In our day we have mostly, what I call “attendees”, not “disciples”. It used to be that Christians in the New Testament times could take a “spear or sword for the sake of Christ”, now they can’t even take an “offense” for Him. If any manufacturer made a product where only 10% of that product worked, then I don’t believe that many people would consider them a success. So, why is it that our churches continue to put out Christians that are so weak, and we continue to call it a success? I long to see a day when a body of believers could come together in the model that He meant for us, one that truly acts like “a family”, that is functional, that has love, mercy, and looks out for the well being of each other, that helps lift each other up, knowing that as long as we are in these earthly bodies we are full of frailties that are desperately in need of a Savior. Is this really possible? Can it really happen? Those questions are what “stumped” me for a long time. I kept thinking, there was no way that it could ever happen on this earth. I thought, not in these earthly bodies. Until!!!!!
Until, I realized that mere humans couldn't’t do it, but Christ could! In Mark 10, after the rich young ruler had left dejected, because Christ had told him to “go and sell whatever he had and give to the poor,” the disciples themselves told Christ He had asked a “hard thing” and even they felt that the Kingdom of God might be too hard to come by. Christ had the perfect answer in Mark 10: 27, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” With what Christ has done on the cross, with the help of the Holy Spirit, and the call and direction of the Father, it is possible, only if we realize our frailty, and “Their” power.
So there you have it, the reason we are here, to possibly do it a little better. Christ gave us the commandment in Matthew 28: 18-20, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” It is our heart felt desire to walk this out the best we can, knowing our frailties, the frailties of others, but yet the power that was given to us on that cross.
Our prayer is that you will not be caught up in the “way it has always been done” syndrome, for it has truly not “always” been done this way, and that you will look to His pattern, His power, and His will, looking past the frailties of people to the Power of God. Pastors Rusty & Lynn Sharp
Pastor Rusty Sharp
The House
Williamson, Ga.
For more info and times of meetings, email Pastor Rusty at thehouse@ncfm.net
