A voice at the back of the church was heard to say hit him again lord.
Sermon that blew the roof off the church.
They didn t say it must not be god s will.
They didn t say god must not want to do this.
Feeling spoken to by the lord he stood up and said lord i ll give 1000.
I heard a story about a dude who brought a friend to church who only typically attended twice a year.
No room outside 3 songs offering a special 3 songs a sermon and go home.
And if that nail has an important work to do imagine what you and i have to do in the body of christ.
On christmas and easter.
The importance of the nail is the idea of our sermon this sunday.
Imagine if someone all of a sudden began banging on the roof.
Let s be a church that takes the roof off.
As they were walking out after the service was over the pastor was standing at the door shaking everyone s hands.
Not even slightly exaggerating when i say they blew the roof off the big top i was right at the front dancing away and i lost myself in the sermon.
Lets be a church that takes the roof off to bring others to christ.
Matthew 20 29 34 mark 10 46 52 luke 18.
Then slowly a cot is let down through the hole in the roof with a man lying on it.
During the prayer meeting a piece of the roof fell and hit him on the head.
They believed so strongly that god wanted to heal this man that they literally went up on the roof and tore it open.
Applause was replaced with horn honking on sunday march 22 at bethel church in jackson.
That s what they did.
We are being showered with sheetrock and debris.
Zacchaeus didn t let the crowd stop him from seeing jesus he found a tree to climb.
Instead of preaching from the front of a sanctuary pastor ken pierpont led the service from the church roof.
A group of friends took the roof off to bring someone in need to jesus.
Mark 5 25 woman with the issue of blood for twelve years pressed through the crowd and touched the hem of his garment.
Could you imagine someone so desperate to get to church that they would open a hole in the roof just to get inside.
Do you have faith that tears the roof off of jesus house.
July 24 2011 jay davis robison mark 2 1 12 isaiah 43 18 25.
Jesus in our gospel lesson this morning to speaking about the body of.
They tore the roof off 1.
35 43 blind bartimaes ust kept crying out to jesus.
Often there is no room in the present structure for habitation.
Some of you have no room for habitation you can t move operate think outside the confines of a clint brown vineyard hymn.
In order to raise the roof you have to think outside the existing structure.
A small nail holding one shingle on the church roof has a very important part to do in the body of christ.
Post bestival i knew i just had to get in contact and ask for an interview and to my luck the reverend michael alabama jackson was more than obliged to speak to me.