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I hope and pray that the Lord will give us so much enthusiasm to do the work of the Kingdom.

I would like to invite the Lord to come back. But I don’t want to invite Him to a church that is fighting, quarreling, upset, discouraged and perplexed. How many Christians do you know, that are discouraged and perplexed? They would come to you and say, “Oh, brother, you are doing fine. Everything is OK.” How do you know it is?

You and I have a privilege to become all that God has for us. Do you realize that you can help move the hand of God to change this whole nation? Do you realize that you can help your young people make decisions in your prayer closet? You and I have more power with God that you ever dreamed of. I will call you men strong flaming hearted men as ready to get something done.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴ Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; ⁵ Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5). This is talking about the world and also about the apostate church.

That is the reason we have to come out of the system. It is a power, but it is not the right power. We have to understand, that the system is not going to help us. It has the form, but it does not have the power. And we are looking for that power. “⁶ For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,  ⁷ Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:6-7).

Picture, that a character standing at the door. He says, “I’m going to kill you amd steal from you everything I can.” What are you going to do? This character has a force. He is strong, but you are stronger. He can do a lot of damage, but you can damage him. Here is standing Michael the archangel ready to fight your battles. It is going to depend who is going to rule your life, your home, your church. Either Michael is going to fight for you or Satan will have the upper hand.

Apostle Daniel Rodes

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Truth, Light & Life Mission

Penn Laird, Virginia

To be continued

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“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”  (Luke 18:17).

Let’s be honest, many of you think, “If those children don’t make noise it will be much better.” Children’s hearts remain pure and simple.

Last night I watched my grandson. He sat on my lap and started playing with my face, laughing, pulling my ears. How many of us are like that? How many of us want to look in the face of our Master?

You can also watch this sermon in video format:

Touch the Face of God from Tatyana Noel on Vimeo.How many of us have fun with Christ? How many of us truly know Christ? If we really truly know Him we won’t have regimented, cut and dry, stagnant and boring things. How many of us want to look in the face of Christ and know Him?

One person leaps off the pages of the Bible, who really truly wants to know God that way. That was David. He got away with stuff (not with sin). When he was hungry he went to the temple and took the bread that was not lawful for him to eat. He was intimate with God. He was real!But people want to keep distance from God, to keep it in theological context. But David was so real, that he took His clothes off and danced before the Lord, like those children. We are so filled with head junk, and garbage that men have crammed in our brains, that we disconnect from God, and He is looking to have relationships with us.

Jesus said, “You will not enter the kingdom if you are not like that child!”

God said, “I don’t want you to be philosophical. I want you to be like children in My presence”.

We are missing it, because we think we are right.

Matthew 11:25: “At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”

Pastor Don Elswick

The reason why we are crying spiritually, because we are confining ourselves spiritually to fit the forms of men. Why won’t you let go?

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Grace Fellowship
Tazewell, Virginia
Sabbath, January 23, 2010

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February 12-14-Richmond, Kansas Beacon of Truth,Apostle Reuben Esh

 

February 19-21-Hamilton, Montana

Pillar of Truth, Pastor Mark Stoltzfus

 

March 5-7-New Holland, Pennsylvania Word of Truth Ministries, Pastor Jake Riehl

March 27-28-New Holland, Pennsylvania Word of Truth Ministries, Pastor Jake Riehl

Special teaching by Brother Rodes on Filled With All the Fulness of God

Note: Because of request, we list the itinerary each quarter so people can pray for our travels more effectively and know where Bishop Daniel Rodes has been and will be.

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We recently signed a 3 month contract with WAZT, a TV station that reaches areas of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We will began broadcasting on this TV network in September, 1 hour each week on Thursday evening 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM. We plan to use one hour messages from our church services for this program. We would appreciate your prayers concerning this new outreach Read the rest of this entry »

Dear friends,

We are happy to inform you, that Truth, Light and Life Ministries, Int. now has two official websites - http://www.tllm.org/ (video) and http://tllmi.com/ (audio). There you can watch and listen to many more messages by brother Daniel Rodes, Reuben Esh, Kevin Campbell and other preachers from TLLM.

Here are some titles of the sermons available:

Audio messages:

By Daniel Rodes:

1.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 1 (January 16, 2010)

2.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 2
3.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 3
4.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 4
5.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 5
6.  Son of God Becomes the Son of Man 6

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Apostle Daniel Rodes

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Tom Deckard teaches on how to have God’s power and anointing in our life, speaking from his over 30 years experience. If you want to know how to get closer to the Lord and get God’s power in your life, this teaching will help you.

“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.” (Matthew 6:16-18)

Wrong teaching and wrong believing can be a detriment to anyone.

Fasting is to get you out of the way and let the Lord lead. When I am fasting, my discernment is way up and I know a lot about you - it pushes more into the supernatural than the natural world.  He just reads “spirit” the reality of your life, where you are really living.  I’m seeing you just as you are and that is what I can tell you.   After the Holy Spirit comes upon a person he becomes another man.

Fasting must become a way of life. You have to bring yourself under a control. Fasting is humbling yourself before God, because we want to get closer to Him.  I only fast because I have a purpose - getting closer to the Lord.  Many go on fast to “make God do something.” Most think that we can force the hand of God - it does mean that you are getting closer to the Lord - and if you fast and pray that situation will eventually change.  Once a year I set a time to spend with God 30 days or 40 days in fasting and prayer.

How do you know when the fast is over? When after you got rid of the appetite and fasten for a number of days you become hungry at the end of the fast.

Do not start with a 21 day fasts.  Start with 1 day fast, 1 day a week, than work up to 2 days a week and then work yourself up to 3 days a week.  Fasting is a way of life.  It is not an elective.   Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

Fasting helps the anointing, which breaks the yokes.

Tom Deckard

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Pastor Don Elswick

Denominations cause people to think, “I can’t go to that church, because I’m this [denomination].” Ephesians 2:19-22: “19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. ”

We are really out not to witness to unbelievers about Christ, but to convert other Christians to our way of thinking. If someone desagrees with you, doctrinally speaking, bear with them in love “to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” [Ephesians 4:13]. The same Spirit that is in the Baptists, is in the Pentacostals, in the Adventists, in Methodists, etc. “There is one body and one Spirit” (Ephesians 4:4).

Secular world believes that there are many truths. No, there is only one truth. It does not mean to have no distinctions. That is not what God is telling us to do. But He is telling us to be humble, gentle, bear with each other in love.

Oneness - the fact or state of being unified or whole, though comprised of two or more parts; harmony. If the Body of Christ can get to the place that we have true harmony, we’ll see great things happening.

I’m not talking about ecumenical movement, when they call us to get together and lay down our distinctions. I’m not talking to unite with the Pope and papacy. I’m talking about uniting with the Word of God, with Christ and with brothers and sisters in Christ, because we are all brought in the fellowship with God through Christ.

Christ’s prayer of intercession: “11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:11, 16-23)

The world does not really believe our message because we are not unified. We are hard, strict and isolated, because we are not united with the Word. This Word is truth. It is not debatable.

“How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!” - Psalm 133:1. (” … is there anything so pleasant, as brethren dwelling in unity?” LXX).

We are conquered because we are divided. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 “12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many.”

Our group is called “Grace Fellowship”, because we are not THE church, but we are fellowship of the church.

Christ came to bring peace for repenting souls through the indwelling of God’s Spirit. Division and confusion remain with the unrepentant soul.

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Another Look at the Date of Christ’s Birth

 

Noel Goh, Pastor and Professor

Christmas is a church tradition that celebrates and commemorates the miraculous event of birth of the Son of God from a virgin’s womb to save the world from sin. It is a festivity that continues to have a major impact on the commercial world as well as family gatherings and gifts giving. Many look forward to this year-end Christmas break even if the significance of the birth of the Christ child is not fully appreciated or embraced. The result is a much treasured and much loved holiday.

Objective of this Study

This review seeks fresh insights from the written account available in the Bible for a possible re-dating of Christ’s actual birth.

Given the weight of tradition and sentiment resting on December 25, it would not be unreasonable to encounter the axiom - “don’t confuse me with the facts; my mind is already made up.” Not withstanding that, allow me to respectfully invite you to an open review of the question: Was Jesus born on December 25 or at another time?

Many people acknowledge that Christ was not born on December 25. Even Sunday school children participating in nativity plays, especially as shepherds, realize that it would be much too cold for shepherds to be outdoors watching their flocks by night in the bleak mid-winter, even if it is only a milder winter in Israel. Read the rest of this entry »

At one time I visited at the John Hopkins institution, and submitted myself for this series of experiments. It was not sufficient to know that God did things, I had to know HOW God accomplished these things. But I prayed in my heart, “Lord God, if you will only let the Spirit of God come like the lightnings of God upon my soul for two seconds, I know something is going to happen that these men never saw before.”

I want to explain the assimilating power of your nature, your capacity to assimilate God and take the life of God into your being, and keep it in your being. I am not talking to you about what I believe. I am talking about what I know.

By John G. Lake

 Chicago, 1920

“In Him was life, and life was the light of men.” (John 1:4)

There is a difference between Christianity and philosophy. (I presume some folks are inquiring why it is that there is always that keynote in my addresses.)

God gave me the privilege of living in the heart of philosophic South Africa, where we have one million five hundred thousand, who are ministered to by Buddhist, and Brahman priests. Every imaginable cult has its representatives there. I was amazed to discover that the whites were gradually assimilating the philosophy of the East, just as we Westerners are assimilating the philosophy of the East, and have been doing so for a long time.

When you take the philosophies, Christian Science, New Thought, and Unity today and examine them, you discover they are the same old philosophies of India, Egypt and China from time immemorial.

The difference between philosophy and religion, particularly the religion of Jesus Christ, is in the words I have quoted from the Scriptures, “In Him was Life, and the life was the light of men.” Philosophy is light. It is the best light the individual possessed who framed the philosophy. But it is not a LIFE GIVER.

But from the soul of Jesus there breathed holy, living life of God, that comes into the nature of man, quickens him by its power, and by the grace of God he has the life of Jesus in him, eternal life. Many of the ancient philosophies have a marvelous light. One of the Indian philosophies, Bhagavad, was written five hundred years before Isaiah. In it they predicted the coming of a Son of God, a Redeemer, who was to come and redeem mankind.

Buddha presented his philosophy five hundred years before Jesus. Pythagoras wrote four thousand years before Jesus Christ. In each one of them you will find many of the teachings of Jesus. The teachings of Jesus were not unique in that they were all new. They were new because they contained something that none of the rest possessed. It was the divine content in the word of Jesus Christ that gave His teachings their distinguishing feature from the other philosophies. That content (element) is the LIFE of God. “In Him was LIFE, and the LIFE was the light of men.”

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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and  pray too little.  We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.  We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

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Washington, DC-October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God…

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!¹…

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

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1. This paragraph is inserted from “President Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a day of National Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, 1863″ [-]

Richard Noel, DMD

We know that colds are caused by viruses. What has humidity to do with those diseases?

Colder air is not able to hold as much water vapor as warm air. If we heat cold air the relative humidity will drop.  When the outside air is near freezing it holds almost no moisture so we need to add water to the warmed air to keep our breathing system from becoming uncomfortable or even injured.  Under extreme dry conditions most people experience a sense of dryness.  This is a warning to us that we need more moisture in our body.

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Ричард Ноэль, DMD

Мы знаем, что простуда вызвана вирусами. Какое отношение имеет влажность к этой болезни?

Более холодный воздух не в состоянии удержать так много водного пара, как теплый воздух. Если мы нагреем холодный воздух, то относительная влажность понизится. Когда температура воздуха на улице близка к нулю, воздух почти не содержит влажности. Таким образом, нам нужно добавить воду (пар) к воздуху, чтобы не допустить пересыхания и даже травмирования дыхательных органов. Read the rest of this entry »

“¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  ¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” (Psalm 51)

The word “create” also means “to cut down”. It means something needs to come down. We want a clean heart without ax, just keep things the way they are. This is not your, but God’s habitation.

It is important for us to examine our hearts sometimes. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

Does honesty, reliability, courage, love have to do with clean heart?

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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Опасность индоктринирования без обращения

«Самая важная задача церкви состоит в том, чтобы помочь своим членам развить христианский характер, преобразованный и воспитанный Евангелием. Возможно, мы слишком долго предполагали, что правильная доктрина и сухая логика нашей истины сами по себе изменят людей».

Так писал Томас Куколя (Thomas Kukolja) в поразительной статье в журнале «Spectrum» (Том 28, № 4, осень 2000).

Куколя имеет в виду “ситуации в Южно-Tихоокеанском регионе, на Балканах, в Руанде, плюс много других ситуаций, в которые многие адвентисты включились в политическом и  расовом отношении.”

Худшей из них, конечно, была резня в Руанде, где в 1994 г. вырезали почти миллион человек. И снова наш автор прав, когда спрашивает: “Что делали почти 200 тысяч адвентистов-хуту, когда их братья уничтожали мирных тутси?”

Для серьезных миссионеров очень легко преподать людям доктринальную истину и предполагать, что она одна приведет к обращению. Такого не происходит. Иисус и фарисеи верили в те же самые доктрины, но многие из последней группы, согласно словам самого Иисуса, были сатанинским отродьем. См. Иоанна 8:44¹. Как ясно Иисус предупреждает нас, “если кто не родится свыше, не может увидеть Царствия Божия», «должно вам родиться свыше». (Иоанна 3:3,7).

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1. Ваш отец диавол; и вы хотите исполнять похоти отца вашего. Он был человекоубийца от начала и не устоял в истине, ибо нет в нем истины. Когда говорит он ложь, говорит свое, ибо он лжец и отец лжи. [-]

There are numerous “be nots” on the Bible. We need to understand them.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2).

Our thinking is from the heart, rather than the head. It has to come from innermost being. If you are conformed to this world, you cannot fully understand what God has for you in this life, because you are conformed to the wrong thibs. But if you are transformed by the renewing of your mind you think, act and talk different. A person will become what he or she thinks about all the time. God’s will is good, and acceptable, and perfect. There is no other will available.

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Выполняя приказы

Дезмонд и Джиллиан Форд

«Самая большая нужда в мире, нужда в людях, которых нельзя купить и продать; людях, которые в глубине души верны и честны; людях, которые не боятся называть грех  грехом; людях, совесть которых столь же верна долгу, как стрелка компаса полюсу; людях, которые будут стоять за правду, даже если небеса упадут». (Образование, стр. 57)

Это - одна из “жемчужин истины”, которую Эллен Г. Уайт убеждала церковь собрать и поместить на подобающее место. Эти слова были написаны другим человеком до того, как она использовала эту цитату. Она считала всю истину собственностью Бога, как и “скот на тысяче гор”¹. Уолтер Мартин (Walter Martin) после углубленного изучения трудов Эллен Г. Уайт в течение многих дней, пришел к выводу, “что она не намеревалась заниматься плагиатом ради прибыли” («Истина об адвентизме седьмого дня», стр. 100).

Я, со своей стороны, благодарен за эти “жемчужины”, поскольку их оригинальные источники давно утеряны для большинства из нас. Но давайте возвратимся к цитатам - большинство людей по своему характеру посредственности. Они представляют собой вешалки для одежды и машины по перевариванию пищи - но они не являются “людьми” в том смысле, в котором говорит наша цитата.

Замечательная иллюстрация этой истины находится в 21 главе 3 книги Царств. Ахав дулся из-за того, что Навуфей отказался продать ему свой виноградник. Но, в то время как ее муж даже отказался от еды, его жена Иезавель была нисколько не обескуражена. Она пообещала своему мужу поправить ситуацию.

Так, она написала письмо старейшинам города, в котором жил Навуфей, и сказала им подставить упрямого владельца виноградника, а затем убить его - что они и сделали. Я думаю, что С.Н. Хэскел (S.N. Haskell) написал об этой главе, указывая, что церковные власти иногда поступали так, как Иезавель в этой истории. Как Уайли (Wylie), так и Д’Обинье (D’Aubigné) приводят многочисленные примеры таких действий в своих книгах по истории церкви.

Рядовой читатель, читающий 3 книгу Царств, главу 21, ужасается подобострастию старейшин города, где жил Навуфей. Как могли люди у власти, люди, которым доверяют другие, как они могли быть настолько податливыми, настолько безвольными, и настолько жестокими?

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1. Псалом 49:10: «ибо Мои все звери в лесу, и скот на тысяче гор» [-]

Have you ever heard about a book “White Lie” by Walter Rea?

We will talk about Ellen today. Ellen White. Some of us grew up with Ellen.

“^NIV Hebrews 11:1-2, 39-40: “1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for. ³⁹ These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. ⁴⁰ God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”

I want to throw the name “Ellen” into that mix of those ancients who were commended for their faith and tell you that only together with us can Ellen be redeemed perfect. And we are the ones who will have to redeem her. You know why? Because we crucified her. We created an Ellen White of our own choosing. Between her death in 1915 and the time I was born in 1952 something caused the church to make her into a hammer used to pound people into submission, to control people. If you got into discussion all you needed to do to quote Ellen White and conversation stopped. She is a final word. Remember those days? We made her infallible, a Pope. We created Pope Ellen.

Today many SDA college students do not know who she is.

The pendulum slowly is going to swing back into a healthy place. Worshiping Ellen White is not healthy. Totally ignoring her as she never existed is not healthy either.

There is a reason why I seldom quote her. Because she said not to. So I’ve taken her at her word.

Pastor Gary McCary

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If we want God’s favor, we need to understand He wants us to be blessed. We need to know what it takes to be blessed.

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:  ² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. (Deuteronomy 28:1-2)

Everywhere I go I hear the word “lack”. What causes these blessings to be stolen?

The first way to receive blessing is honesty, when you have nothing hid.

“But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully” (2 Corinthians 4:2-3).

Apostle Daniel Rodes

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Oasis of Truth

Hamilton, MT

Программа Лео Скревена началась 1 октября 2009

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http://www.goallpower.com/

Это - одно из самых важных сообщений, которые, по-моему, Бог когда-либо желал, чтобы вы прочитали. Отведите, пожалуйста, лишь 15 минут в тиши, чтобы внимательно прочитать его. Спасибо. - Лео Скревен²

Дорогой друг!

Хотели бы вы видеть, как весть Божьей истины выходит во весь мир всего лишь за несколько лет? Это - ви́дение, которое у нас есть. Это - ви́дение о том, чтобы сделать истину известной всему миру в течение всего лишь следующих нескольких лет. Это возможно.

Мы даже не начинаем достигать мира Евангелием. За 25 лет своего служения я выступил более чем в 700 церквях во многих странах и почти на каждом континенте. Могу сказать откровенно, что церковь в основном находится в состоянии застоя.

Искренние пасторы изо всех сил пытаются послужить 2-4 церковным районам. Кое-где мы растем понемногу, но мы теряем больше людей, чем приобретаем. Есть ряд замечательных телевизионных и радио служений, но они ограничены, потому что люди должны присутствовать в определенное время, чтобы увидеть или услышать программу или купить дорогую спутниковую антенну, чтобы смотреть ее. Немногие делают это в международном масштабе.

Традиционные методы, такие, как евангельские программы, занятия по изучению Библии и малые группы теперь приводят к маленьким и очень ограниченным результатам. Если мы продолжаем всё делать так, как мы делали всегда, мы будем продолжать получать те же самые результаты.

Наша миссия заключается в том, чтобы распространить Евангелие в целом мире, и мы должны возвратиться к этой главной миссии. Может ли она действительно быть выполнена?

Повсюду, куда я направляюсь, я встречаю людей, которые желают видеть перемены. Люди, которые действительно хотят закончить порученную Богом работу и донести Благую весть до всего мира. Вопрос всегда был таков: как мы можем сделать это?

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1. Прим. переводчика. Пока что только на английском языке. Перевод на русский язык ожидается в следующем году [-]
2. Лео Скревен - самый плодовитый в Северной Америке евангелист АСД по количеству завоеванных душ, 3-й по успешности финансовых инвестиций бизнесмен в США - на протяжении 14 лет он ежегодно удваивал инвестиции своих клиентов. Его подход к евангелизму - практический, учить практическому христианству - как жить победоносной христианской жизнью, как быстро победить зависимости и вредные привычки, как наладить отношения в семье, как библейски правильно распоряжаться финансами и т.п. Мы слушали его на лагерном собрании церкви в 2008 г. Это одна из самых сильный вестей, когда-либо слышанных нами в церкви АСД. [-]