Year of consolidation (Part 3)
Dr. Roberto Miranda:
The sermon discusses the importance of reconsecration and reflection as a congregation at Bethel, the place where Abram reconsecrates his life and worships the Lord again. The church needs to revisit and tighten things that God has given them, such as a supernatural mentality and the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They also need to be intentional, of excellence, and a prophetic presence in the city and nation. The church wants to emphasize more evangelism and bring more people to the church. The sermon concludes with specific goals for the year, including continuing the effort of evangelism, solidly establishing themselves in their new sanctuary, and beautifying and putting the finishing touches on it.
The Church needs to focus on strengthening prayer and seeking the power of the Holy Spirit, officially inaugurating the new sanctuary, functioning normally without the burden of continuous construction, paying off short-term debts, increasing financial support, becoming a truly multi-ethnic Church, and learning to function with two sanctuaries and three buildings. The Church has grown numerically but not financially, and needs to balance its income with the increasing needs of the congregation. The goal is to continue to provide excellent pastoral care and services, but this requires increased financial support and a balanced bilingual mentality.We have been talking about Bethel, that place where Abram comes after being in Egypt, reconsecrates his life, worships the Lord again on that altar that he had built before and then continues with the things that God has, God renewing his pact with him that had already started before and we have said that we as the Church are also in a period more or less like this, after an interlude, a time of arduous, difficult, dangerous and exhausting construction and we are returning like Abram from Egypt, and we cleanse ourselves a little dust and we arrived at that stone, that place where we have made a sign of an encounter with God.
Perhaps we think like Abram where we have been, where we are going, we reconnect the past with the present and with the future and then we launch ourselves to search again for the Will of the Lord, and we have talked about how important it is that we consolidate forward, that we press things well before going to undertake new things.