Thank God for Living Stones

From Our Pastor's Desk

About seven years ago, we learned this our church building was for sale. When we came to look at the building, we found out that it was offered for sale by another church that had been around for decades. It used to be a thriving congregation.

Their faithful members had given sacrificially to construct this building. They had consecrated it to the Lord and had worshipped there for many years.

Yet now the building was up for sale, they couldn’t maintain it any longer. What happened? How did that church go from thriving to dying? How did it slide from healthy to sick to dead?

I think we know, the builders stopped building.


Little by little, avoidable neglects, divisions, discord, non-chalance. Non-gifts, no-shows etc turned to demise. 1st Peter 2:5 - Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Considering the staggering statistics on church mortality in America, at RCCG Dominion Mercy Seat, we are grateful to God for still standing strong. Some researchers suggest that between 3,500 to 4,500 churches close their doors (or die) each year.

While our congregation has had its share of struggles over the years, we are pleased that we have survived! That means that in the time since our congregation was founded in 2010, over 30,000 churches have died! Nothing on earth is more valuable to God than His church.

And we are commissioned to do everything possible to preserve the unity, protect the fellowship, and promote harmony in our church family and among all believers. 

The Lord continually bless the Mercy Seatizens, the Living Stones, the co-Kingdom Builders with God, in His spiritual House, in Jesus Name. AMEN. 

You will have good success this 2019. 

Remain blessed. 

Shalom.