Announcements
SYMPATHY: to Pastor Norris & Karen Belcher, Pastor Josh & Cathi Belcher, and Levi & LeighAnn Haines and their families at the passing of Pastor Norris’s Dad’s wife, Lola Belcher, on Thursday, June 22. Service arrangements are pending.
SOUL-WINNERS CLUB: The Soul-Winners Club will NOT be meeting on Wednesday, June 28, due to those going on the mission trip. However, we will still be having the dinner and visitation on Thursday, June 29.
MISSION TRIP: Please pray for the Grenada trip and those who are going. A list of all the names is available at the Welcome Desk. Pastor Aaron has also set up a “blog” to provide updates while they are away. It can be accessed on the church website.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: July 9 - 13; there are many areas where you can serve! Please stop by the Welcome Desk to sign-up. See Pastor Josh for any questions.
From My Heart
THE MEASURE OF A MAN’S MINISTRY
By Dr. Curtis Hutson
Can a man’s ministry be measured? Yes, it can. A study reveals that Christians of outstanding success through the ages have been those who were the great soul winners, men with a strong, almost consuming passion for the lost.
See, first, the example of Jesus. Never was there such a compassionate winner of men! He saw people as sheep having no shepherd and “had compassion on them.” He wept over Jerusalem. He sought the fallen woman to forgive her; the publican to make him an example.
O Saviour, teach us so to love sinners, to weep over them, find pillows hard, food tasteless and life not worth living until we get them saved! Send us out with compassion and tears to win the lost!
Then we have Paul. How he wept over sinners! He so longed for the salvation of his countrymen that he said, “I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” A stoning...a shipwreck...a Philippian jail could not quench Paul’s tears for lost men.
D. L. Moody may have well been the greatest evangelist of all time, in a 40-year period winning a million souls. He was sold out to soul winning. He determined that daily he would personally witness to at least one individual about his soul. And he did.
Soul winning was the heartbeat of John R. Rice. In a Christmas letter, dictated a few days before his death, he bared his soul-winner’s heart: “I still, from my armchair, preach in great revivals. I still vision hundreds walking the aisles to accept Christ. I still feel hot tears for the lost...I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost. May food be tasteless, music a discord, Christmas a farce if I forget the dying millions; if this fire in my bones does not still flame. Not till I die or not till Jesus comes will I ever be eased from this burden, these tears, this toil to save souls.”
“...but every Christian holds in his hand the Gospel of pardon for whosoever will accept it. Tragically, so many die without that pardon because we fail to tell them the gospel story.
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