As we have been going through our study of the book, "Respectable Sins" we got into a discussion about our role in Sanctification. There continues to be lots of discussion about what is God's work and what is mine. Obviously God isn't doing this work without my involvement. His work is in me! While I am completely dependent on the Holy Spirit to make progress, we are sometimes confused about what that would look like or how it would affect me. I recently came across this quote from the book "For the Love of God". D.A. Carson says...

"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

Our goal is to stop the drift! We have been working together to do that and God has blessed us with greater desire for him, for holiness and for impact on our world. But we are not finished yet!

With that in mind, I'm excited to tell you about some of the things that God is doing in our Men's Ministry. God has raised up a new brotherhood of men at Harvest in and through whom he desires to do great things. As you read on about some of the things that are happening, we invite you to come and be a part.