We are continuing our series today called saved, surrender, serve! I believe there is a natural progression in our walk with God. The first step we must take is be saved or to be born again…the next step is surrender…now we do surrender at salvation, but the longer we follow Christ, the more we realize all of the stuff we need to surrender, and the final step is to serve. Each one of us has a responsibility to serve God. The bible is very clear on where the majority of that service is to be…it is in the church…in the body. Of Course we are serving God wherever we go, but we serve Him, by serving HIS church. We are to serve God with vision.

Today’s message is surrender! Surrender is part of salvation. Surrender For some people there seems to be confusion about what surrender means. Some people think of surrendering as a not just a bad thing, but a negative thing. Most people do not want to surrender…because they think it means submission…submission is about force or control. In wrestling there are submission holds designed to say to the other person…you are too strong for me, so I give up.

I have been praying and thinking about this message for some time. Let me tell you that at the heart of this message is you…or y’all! This message is about money. I make no apologies about talking to you about money and perhaps more importantly our attitudes and relationship toward it. We are taught many things about money and most of it is not very good. In the church, especially in the USA, the attitude toward money is not so good…at least generally speaking. Now, if you think I am going to tell you to give more, let me tell you that may or not be the outcome…it just depends on what you are giving now? However, this message is not about tithing, even though I will share a few things about tithing. This message is primarily about our relationship to money. The way we think about it, the way we use it, the way we feel about it, and how it dominates our thinking.