April 12, 2025
Spurring Each Other On
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:24
What does it mean to spur one another on?
I looked it up in a Biblical dictionary and the phrase means, “to encourage, motivate or incite others to action.” That phrase is the heartbeat of what we want to do at fuel2ignite!
We know how hard life can be. Life comes at you fast and circumstances can knock you down like waves in a rough sea.
I remember being at the beach as a child and it was the morning after an unusually bad storm. The waves that were normally two or three feet high were five or six feet high on this day. And they packed a punch that I wasn’t expecting. I remember being knocked off my feet and barrel rolling under the water. It seemed like wave after wave kept crashing down before I could recover from the last one. For the first time in my life, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to get my head back above water.
Many of us can relate to that feeling with the overwhelming circumstances in our lives. As crisis after crisis hits, we wonder if we’ll ever get our heads above water again.
And, frankly, we live in a world where there are so few encouragers out there. It’s easy to feel like you’re in a battle alone. We wanted to establish a ministry that is designed with encouraging the weary. And, no, this isn’t some, “Don’t worry, be happy”gobbledygook. We know you’re tired. We know you’ve got little left in the tank. We’ve been there. We’ve felt that pain. We want to share our stories of how God healed us in a difficult hour. We want to come along side you, spur you on, pray for you and challenge you to get off the sidelines and get back in the game.
And, no, this isn’t in any way an effort to replace the role of the church or anything like that.
This passage makes it clear that we should not get out of the habit of meeting together as brothers and sisters in Christ. We believe the church should be your primary source of community and fellowship. And as churches we should be encouraging each other all the more as the Day of Christ’s return draws near.
But the fact remains that for whatever reason our society has become more and more isolated and we are bombarded on social media with people tearing each other apart because they are emboldened by being behind a keyboard.
We want fuel2ignite to be an oasis in a desert where you can be replenished and renewed.
I shared this in more detail in this week’s blog, but God sent an encourager into my life almost 30 years ago when my ministry was at a crossroads. I was going through self-doubt and wondering if this whole calling from God thing was a figment of my imagination.
Who knows if I would have stayed in ministry? But a man I had never met comes into my life for all of 6 months, offers a little well-timed encouragement and literally changes the course and direction of my life and ministry.
A little encouragement can go a long way.
That’s why this ministry was born - to do for someone else what that man did for me.
But more than just encouraging you, our hope is that this site will inspire you to be an encouragement to others. We would love nothing more than to inspire a movement of people spurring each other on in the name of Christ. A movement like that could change the world. It certainly changed mine.