Saturday, January 7, 2012

"Worth Watching....."

I'll just watch this while I am organizing my home office....or at least that's what I thought. But then I was watching, and listening, and the tears wouldn't slow. I am so thankful for the blogger(Ann Voskamp) who recommended watching, with the words "worth watching". They seemed harmless enough. But this "worth watching" video, has reached in and grabbed my heart and squeezed it tight.

Just yesterday I listened to a friend tell me that Africa just wasn't her thing...she doesn't feel bad for the people there. I was stunned. What I think she meant is she does not feel compelled to have compassion on a people that she does not see, that it is not her job.

I didn't know it at the time, but I do now, EVERY Africa is my thing. If I am to call myself a Christ-follower, then it has to be...because Africa is Jesus' thing. When we are given the "great commission" in Acts 1:8 "and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." and "Go ye into all the world" Mark 16:15; Not only Africa, but wherever there is suffering, hunger, disease, and people, children dying, some never hearing the Gospel...that compels to want to reach them, because after all that Jesus has done for me how can I want to do any less. I don't know what and I don't know how, but I know...YES! Whatever it is you want me to do Lord, YES.






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I am so thankful to the the Lord Jesus Christ for saving me and surprised more and more every day that He would want to use this broken leaky vessel to do anything! But oh so grateful and humbled that He does! Thank you Jesus! My family and I have relocated from DFW, Texas to start a church in Port Clinton, Ohio. I will miss Texas and all of the wonderful people that God has allowed me to meet and get to know there, but I am so excited to see what God is going to do through our family and Lake Point Baptist Church in Port Clinton, Ohio! My prayer is for you to come into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ! Thank you for visiting my site! Please let me know you were here.

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• I believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God
(II Timothy 3:15-17, II Peter 1:21).

• I believe there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1, Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30).

• I believe in the deity of Christ (John 10:33); His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:34-35); His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, 7:26); His miracles (John 2:11); His vicarious and atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9); His resurrection (John 11:25, I Corinthians 15:4); His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19); His personal return to earth in power and glory (Acts 1:11, Revelation 19:11-16).

• I believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of the human nature, and that all are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God's grace through faith alone are we saved (John 3:16-19; 5:24, Romans 3:23; 5:8-9, Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 3:5).

• I believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and those who are not unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29).

• I believe in the spiritual unity of the believers in our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9, I Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 3:26-28).

• I believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by Whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Romans 8:13-14, I Corinthians 3:16, 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30; 5:18).

• I believe it is the mandate of the whole Church to go into the whole world and to preach the Gospel to every living creature. (Mark 16:15, Matthew 28:19-20)

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