Monday, December 7, 2009

COR 27 - The Watchman


"Christian" - You are the Watchman!


Whether you are a Christian, a Professing Christian, or a Know Non-Christian, I implore you to watch this video.  The content is for you.

Do you love your family and friends?  Think about it.  Think about all the people in your life that you hold dear (family, friends, coworkers, neighbor’s etc.).  Think of all of them in your head.  Picture their faces.  Ingrain them in your brain.  Now “Christian” here’s the question, how many of these people do you know beyond a reasonable doubt, scripturally, that are going to spend an eternity in hell.  Here is a real letter written by a real atheist to Ray Comfort, a street evangelist:


Ray,

You are really convinced that you've got all the answers.  You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If you're right, as you say you are, and believe that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me you are speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation into an endless onslaught of horrendous pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.

If you believe one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unreachable fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness.  That's equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.

Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if the bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as love and caring.


James Franz



An atheist even knows you are supposed to, and expects you to share your faith with them if you truly believe what the Bible says and truly love them.  If you truly believed that God is Holy, Righteous, Just, and must punish sin for an eternity in hell, the Bible says in Ezekiel 33 that if your friends and family die in their sin, not having heard the gospel from you, they will “die in their iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”  Mark Cahill put it right when he said any Christian that does not spread the gospel to their loved ones, really doesn’t love them at all.  They really hate them.  How much hatred do you have to have in your heart to be indifferent about your loved one’s salvation?  How much blood do you have on your hands?  What are you going to do about it?


To Him alone be the Glory,

Josh Anderson
St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)




The Watchman (Part 1)




The Watchman (Part 2)



The Watchman (Part 3)



The Watchman (Part 4)



The Watchman (Part 5)



The Watchman (Part 6)


    

December 5, 2009 marked the second COR 27 event held at Bethesda Baptist church in St. Charles, MO. COR 27 is a new outreach ministry of Bethesda Baptist. Services will be held the first Saturday of the month at 6:00 PM.  Please visit http://bethesdabc.org for more information.


 

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Lordship Salvation

Here is a video, I put together on the subject of Lordship Salvation.  Lordship Salvation is simply the new believer, not only coming to Christ in humble repentance over His sin, turning from his sin, and trusting in Him as Lord of his life. Once this takes place, the believer will begin the process of Sanctification, which is a "setting apart" by God.  A growing in Holiness, to conform to the image of Christ.  Many people think, all you have to do is believe a few facts about Jesus, and you are eternally saved.  But its more than just head
knowledge.  True faith, will be a living, breathing, active faith. One that will desire the things of God.  It will hate the things God hates.  Not that the new believer will never sin, but he will hate the thought of sin, and love righteousness, for what God has saved him from. As John Piper stated:  "Obedience is not something artificially added to saving faith later after a second discovery in the Christian walk. It is what faith does because faith is the soul’s cleaving to Jesus for the forgiveness and guidance and hope it needs to be happy. If you don’t do what the doctor says, you don’t trust him. So lordship salvation is not—emphatically not —anything other than salvation by faith (true faith) in the Lord Jesus Christ". In this video, I just addressed a few verses that were on my heart at the time. I was "debating" a few guys on the subject, who believe you
can live in rebellion against God, and not even love God, and still be saved.  As you will see in the video, scripture refutes those ideas.



To Him alone be the Glory,

Kevin Hauk
St. Louis Evangelism Team

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Tim 4:5)



Lordship Salvation