Mike Berrien

#Jesus is my King; Small Biz Owner @truebuildcredit Internet's Largest, Most Successful Corporate and Business Credit Building Program! #smallbiz is our passion

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

Spend time with Him so that He can grow within you, the heart of the Father He gave us in the life of #Jesus

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

@ElonMuskZAB 21.5

[Trust God Bro @trustgodbro]

Trust God!

[Trust God Bro @trustgodbro]

I'm not where I need to be, but I thank God that I'm not where I used to be.

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

Working for Corporate Credibility Network, Inc. https://t.co/9HiYM8Ibv2 via @YouTube

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

This is the Way.
Pushing against the secular power of the air all designed to teach people to think like victims and complain about each other’s views.

…strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
1 Cor 13:4-7

[Trust God Bro @trustgodbro]

God gave you those dreams for a reason.
Trust Him.

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

Every man is called to do all the good he can, but some men are set apart to labour in peculiar departments of Christian work, and these should be doubly careful to do all in their Master’s name.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

When you’re faced with several GOOD choices, trust God to show you the BEST one! “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” (Psalm 119:105)

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Jesus is what we need to know about God.

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

@MikeWingerii This is the root of powerless devotional “meme” faith. We care about “us” and every small group I’ve seen Mike is this and you nailed it… not what He is teaching us, seeking Him and His wisdom then leading to His will. It’s self obsession and backwards.

[Mike Berrien @mikeberrien]

This is the root of powerless devotional “meme” faith. We care about “us” and every small group I’ve seen Mike is this and you nailed it… not what He is teaching us, seeking Him and His wisdom then leading to His will. It’s self obsession and backwards.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

When it comes to understanding the Bible, people often make the mistake of starting with the question of “How does this passage apply to my life today?”

I say this is a mistake not because we want to apply the Bible to our lives but because we skip completely past understanding and just try to launch into application.

I have seen this in small groups over and over again. I ask the group, “what do you think this passage is saying?” and someone replies “I need to do or believe such and such in my life when I face such and such circumstances.”

Notice how easy it is to actually skip right past understanding on our rush to application. If we make this mistake over and over again we will likely get really weird with the Bible. It becomes a launchpad for a rotating series of pre-chosen applications that we have ready to drop on top of a passage, while actually obscuring the very meaning of the passage itself.

We don’t end up following a normal study path.
Step 1: Reading
Step 2: Thinking
Step 3: Interpreting (which involves a lot)
Step 4: Applying

Instead, we end up with.

Step 1: Reading
Step 2: Applying
Step 3: Applying
Step 4: Applying

But what are we even applying? Some passages are immediately easy to apply, most are not. If we don’t understand the passage yet, but jump to application, we are literally forced into making something up.

Bible study tip: Don’t apply right away.

As always, I highly recommend gathering a list of questions about any given passage, long before trying to apply it, and letting that keep you grounded as you study.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

Success is facing the challenges of life and not shrinking back from them.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

There is strength in weakness, for when you are weak, God is strong! You must not define yourself by what's going on around you, but instead by what's going on inside of you.

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

Let no Christian among us neglect the means provided for obtaining a fuller knowledge of the gospel of Christ. I would that this age produced more thoughtful and studious Christians.

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

They said Paul was a fool. “Well,” replied the apostle, “I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed; I am willing to be thought a fool.” The ungodly may laugh at us now, but their laugh will soon be over, and he will laugh that wins for ever.

[Trust God Bro @trustgodbro]

God is never late, we’re just impatient.

[Jentezen Franklin @Jentezen]

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

...I beseech you give him true and real praise, not that of the head only, or of the lip, but of your whole spirit, soul, and body, as you consecrate yourself afresh to him.