Hanging Out With Jesus

The other day I had the previledge to attend a Holiness Pastor's Day sponsored by the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium. This consortium is made up of 8 different Weslyan Holiness Denominations. It was a day filled with God annointed preaching and discussion. The first speaker was Dr. Kevin Mannoia who is the head of this consortium. His message was titlled "Hanging Out With Jesus" he began his message by telling us that the word "tarry" which we see in the bible means to hang out with so when the disciples tarried with Jesus they were hanging out. Dr. Mannoia went on to say that when we hang out with someone there is no agenda (as he illustrated this by telling of how his son was just going to hang out with his friends) they were just going to hang out. Dr Mannoia made a statement I will remember for a long time, "we become like the people we hang out with". When he said that my mind flashed back to my high school years and the people I hung out with and as well as the young people I see today and how they seem to be one in the same because they hang out together. This is true for we adults as well I just read on the Internet tonight about a small (micro) brewery that was closing because it was not making money one of the people who was sad to see this brewery closed was a man who said, "It was the owner of the brewery that got him started drinking beer instead of always drinking wine." So you see we become like the people we hang out to be. So if we want to be like the grumpy old man in town just hang out with him or if we want to become like the one in town everybody knows and love hang out with them, but more importantly if you want o be like Jesus HANG OUT WITH JESUS hang out with no personal agenda see what Jesus show you. May it be your desire to be like Jesus. Let us hang out with Jesus
Blessings