Pastors Blog

Your life can be more interesting, challenging, and rewarding. You can move into a new era of energy and passion. Things can change for you. You are only a few steps away from an adjustment of attitude and outlook that could be powerful and permanent in your life.

You may have received faulty information about the nature and purpose of life on this planet. You may have received an “empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 1:18). This feeling of emptiness and futility is the result of a misunderstanding about how life works.

Once implemented, this new approach to living will change the inner condition of your heart and mind.

The same may be said for any social group of which you are a part including—and especially—your church. No church family will experience the full extent of divine blessings intended and expected without the careful cultivation and disciplined practice of this essential ingredient of believing.

You must care.

The word “care” is a very big little word. We use it, like many words, in almost opposite ways. If “we don’t have a care in the world” then we are at peace and happy. On the other hand, if “nobody cares for me” we are miserable and full of self-pity.

Care is both a noun and a verb. With appropriate endings, it converts easily into adverbs and adjectives. The word is versatile and flexible like a rubber band or a twisting tie.

“I don’t give a care” seems to express something good.

“Why do you care?” questions the motives and intentions of compassionate words or actions.

And “Who cares?” dismisses people and events with a flick of the hand and a toss of the head.

A sparrow is a tiny bird.  It is small, brown and relatively inconspicuous.   I do not follow sparrows around tending to their needs.  I do not notice when one of them dies.  The death of a sparrow does not receive comment in the local newspaper.   Yet, these same sparrows are cared for by our Heavenly Father.  He knows when one is lost. Jesus of Nazareth says that not one of the sparrows is forgotten before God (see the Gospel of Luke 12:6).

Bottom line: God cares. He cares for birds and other animals, and he cares for humans.

You will be more like God, and you will experience more divine life and light, if you care. That is The Care Effect.