Wow. Only God can help us

[stephen]

Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell.

This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.

--C.T. Studd (1860-1931), Missionary to China and Africa

 

[Coconut]

Amen ...amen ...amen...


Rom 15:15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience--by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God--so that --I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;

 

[SpiritLedEd]

I'm not trying to brag, but the first sentence of my church's mission statement says: "XXXXXXX Church exists to bring large numbers of people into relationship with Jesus Christ." That, in a nutshell, is what we are supposed to be about.

SLE