Drinkin', Smokin', Boozin', Snortin'

I do none of those things, but my desire is to reach those who do. I am not interested in reaching those who go to other churches and are disgruntle because so and so ticked them off, or they got voted off the personnel committee. I want to reach those people who think that church is dumb, Christians are idiots, and God is just the figment of the imagination of the weak minded and simple. I want to reach those people who would rather be skiing on some lake, grilling out cheeseburgers, and doing some fishing at the cabin on Sundays rather than go to some church and be religious.

I want to reach those people who spend their spare time on the golf course, and flirting with other men's wives, those people who sell their bodies for money, those people whose living depends on how much they sell of what is cooking or growing in the basement, those people who feel like living another moment is worthless and whose minds are filled continually with thoughts of ending it themselves, those people who have been told they are useless and good for nothing, those men who sleep with other men, those women who sleep with other women, those people who share each others marriage beds, those people who live with someone they are not married to, those knocked up teenage girls who everyone deems a slut, those people whose every night ends with empty bottles and faint memories, those people who have gained the whole world, yet still feel something is missing, those people who think life is great yet go to bed wondering "is this all there is?"....these are the people Christ died for! These are the people I want to attend our church.

I don't want to reach the pissed off Sunday School teacher who is mad at their church because they got a new pastor, or the Christian who wants to go to another church because they don't like the music at theirs, or because some pastor didn't visit them in the hospital....I want those who never think twice about darkening the doors of a church, those who are desperately searching to CONNECT with their Creator by any means possible...that is who I want to reach...that is who Freedom Church will reach!!!!