Tony Diesel Baptism @ First Baptist Church of Lake St. Louis

The best way to describe this video is "broken man". When the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and the Holy Spirit moves it's an absolute miracle the work that is done. How can a man go from loving his sin, completely blind and callous to the things of God... to falling on his face, crying out to God for mercy because for the first time in his life he has seen his sin in truth... crimes against a holy God! (Rev 21:8) This does not happen because he one day decided to step out of the line going to hell and step into the line going to heaven. It happened because the Almighty Creator of the universe supernaturally changed his heart and made him a new creature! (2 Cor 5:17) He has been regenerated (Titus 3:5), justified (Rom 3:23-24) and is now being sanctified. All because he is a good person? NO! Because God is love and merciful and because this act of love and mercy on Tony was in accordance with His good will and pleasure. Tony repented of his sin and put his trust in Jesus Christ!

Soli Deo Gloria,

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)

Rhea Ford Baptism @ First Baptist Church of Lake St. Louis

After having heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Rhea saw her state before a holy God. She recognized for the first time in her life that she was a wretched sinner and in desperate need of a Savior. She fell on her knees and cried out to God for mercy and He granted her repentance and faith!

On January 24, 2010, Rhea Ford was Baptized by her brother Kevin. Listen to her testimony as she explains in her own words the work that God has done in her!

Soli Deo Gloria,

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)

COR 27 - Who's Slave Are You?

The message "Who's Slave Are You?" was delivered at the first COR 27 event of 2010 at Bethesda Baptist Church in St. Charles, MO on January 2, 2010. You are either a slave to sin, or a slave to Christ.  Which one are you?  If you are a Christian, you are a no longer a slave to sin, you have been set from from the bondage of sin and death and are now a slave to Christ! 

It is our prayer that the LORD would use this message to move professing Christians to examine their lives to see if the are truly a slave to Christ, or still yet an unrepentant slave to sin?  If you believe you are the latter of the two, repent and believe the Gospel while there's still time.

To Him alone be the Glory,

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)


Who's Slave Are You? (Part 1)




Who's Slave Are You? (Part 2)




Who's Slave Are You? (Part 3)

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.


 

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

COR 27 - Security and Assurance of the Believer

November 7, 2009 marked the first 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.

Are you a Christian? Do you profess to follow Jesus Christ? Do you have assurance of your salvation? You say you "believe", but how do you "know" you believe? Has that thought ever crossed your mind? A Christian can have assurance of sins forgiven and that assurance will come from Scripture and from the witness of the indwelling Holy Spirit. (Rom 8:16)

In this message we look at 1 John and examine ourselves in light of Scripture. It is our prayer that the LORD would use this message to encourage the Believer and bring the false convert to true repentance and faith in Christ.


To Him alone be the Glory,

Travis Foley
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)


Security and Assurance - Part 1



Security and Assurance - Part 2



Security and Assurance - Part 3



Security and Assurance - Part 4

Deeper Conference 2009

This past weekend, September 10^th- 13^th we headed out to the Deeper Conference in Atlanta Georgia. While Travis and Ken had the luxury of flying down, Kevin Ford, Kevin Hauk, Josh Anderson and Jimmy Bartner drove the 10 hour trip in Josh’s car. We were blessed to be able to stop and have lunch with brother Jim McClarty of Grace Christian Assembly in Smyrna, Tennessee, who we listen to on a weekly basis through podcast. His website is www.salvationbygrace.org. We sat for 2 hours learning more about the sovereignty of God. We also learned that Ecclesiastes, says something…but Kevin Ford wasn’t quite sure what!! After that it was on to Atlanta. The drive down, was also a blessing, for reasons of fellowship. Just about everything we talked about was Christ centered. On Friday morning we went down to see a taping of Wretched with Todd Friel, who was having Christian artist Scott Krippayne to do some singing. Then we were off to the conference, where Ray Comfort started off with teaching about the eternality of God and the Atheists Sixth Sense. I like Rays comments on witnessing to the lost. “How much do we have to hate someone, not to warn them of the fate of Hell”? And what he said about the norm of Christian prosperity teaching today, hit it right on the mark: “It is a poor sermon that gives no offense”. Then Emeal Zwayne, spoke about the way our country is headed down the same road as Europe in leaving our Christianity behind.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 2 Tim 3:1-5

He ended up his sermon about how we should live to pass on Godly lives to our children.

After EZ, Johnny Hunt spoke about the Forebearance of God. Psalm 103:10- He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Why didn’t God slay Adam and Eve when they first sin? Why does he not slay us? God is longsuffering. 2Peter 3:9.

Mark Cahill was next teaching about the Holiness of God. Holiness demands justice. And He demands Holiness in the lives of His people. Eph. 5:8-For you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light. And we should all realize, we should not get pleasure out of the things Jesus died for. 2Cor. 7:1-Therefore, having these promises beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Kirk Cameron spoke about Keeping the foundations Sure in your marriage. Our focus should be Jesus Christ, but if we fail at home, we fail altogether. Our order of importance should be:

1. 
   
   Jesus Christ
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Wives
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Children
   
   
   
4. 
   
   Christians
   
   
   
5. 
   
   The world(unsaved)
   
   
   

We also learned the 3 principles to strengthening a marriage.

1. 
   
   The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart.
   
   
   
2. 
   
   Is it my way or Gods way?
   
   
   
3. 
   
   Learn to burn bridges and build altars.
   
   
   

Ravi Zacharias finished out the night on the Veracity of God. Ravi’s teaching is very thought provoking. I would spend the rest of this page just trying to explain one sentence of his. So, let me just say, he was a blessing!!

Scott Krippayne finished the night with great worship, with Kirk reading scripture in between each song.

Friday night after we got back to the hotel, Josh went and played “Maverick” and went to the college across the street and witnessed to some college kids. Ken witnessed to a guy at the gas station, and Kevin Ford witnessed to the lady behind the counter at the gas station. We pray that all that heard the gospel that night, will repent, and turn to God.

Saturday started off with praise and worship with Scott Krippayne, and then Todd Friel preached on the Kindness of God. Speaking of the common grace God has provided for all of creation, we also need to realize, that our main purpose of our existence is for Gods glory. Hell is reasonable, when we realize our sin, and our sin is great, but the Cross of Jesus Christ is greater.

Greg Koukl spoke next on Evil, Suffering and the Goodness of God. Why is there evil, and where did it come from? The presence of evil in the world is one of the best proofs for the existence of God, not against Him.

We finished up with a “breakout” session with Mark Spence, the Dean of the School of Biblical Evangelism. Mark was great, he gave his testimony, and we all could really relate. He also spoke on Gods sovereignty in all things. I like his quote” God is not done with you, because your still alive”.

After Deeper concluded, we went out with “The 500”. They are a group that goes out street evangelizing. Our group went to mid town Atlanta, a predominately Gay part of town. We were able to share the gospel with a number of people. Travis actually got up and did some “open air preaching”. It was a great night, and Gods name was glorified.

Sunday, it was back to the airport for Travis and Ken, and the rest of us got back on the road, and made a stop back in Smyrna Tennessee, to catch a service at Jim McClartys church. It was truly a blessing to see him preach in person, sing the hymns, and meet the majority of people in his congregation.

So what did we learn through all of this? There are brethren out there. Sometimes we can get a prophet like syndrome where we think we are all alone. Gathering like this helps us to see how God is moving in many places and not just in our town. God is not done as Christ has not come back, so we need to press on until He returns. This weekend was such a blessing to see God's Word proclaimed in such a way that glorified Him. The worship truly was a blessing as all of the voices lifted up praise to the only One who is worthy. The witnessing was humbling once again. As we saw the Spirit move around us all weekend, it is still humbling to be granted the opportunity to share the Gospel and possibly be used in the salvation of someone. We pray for all who heard the gospel, that God would grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Tim 2:25.

May God receive all the glory honor and praise until our last breaths.

Humbly,

St. Louis Evangelism Team.