Effective Ministry?

Many groups and Meetings!

Some fellowships do very little and rely on the community, others act in a silly way bringing golf and the funfair to their buildings in the hope of raising the attendance numbers? While others are full of activity, from house groups to meetings and yet there is no essential results of attendance or growth?

Good leadership is needed from the Pastor to the elders or deacons or what ever way you make that call! Organisation and review is as important, while the prayer meeting is one of the focuses of the believers to pray weekly on the events, the direction of the Ekklesia, the sick, troubles and the surrounding community!

Preaching the Gospel with emphasis on the Cross, the need for personal salvation and that believers share their faith at work, home, school and other without the fear of humans is the key to success!

Leviticus 19:15, Psalm 91:5, Isaiah 8:12, Acts 8:25, 1 John 4:18, 5:9-11, Revelation 22:20.

The Value of Preaching? Two.

The Altar Call?

At one time this was the essential of leading those who were ready to repent to faith in Jesus, despite the terminology it remained an effective tool in Evangelism to lead to the lost to Jesus!

The preaching of Jesus death and resurrection remains essential today in ever increasing hostile and anti-Christian world! Our societies are in a state of moral collapse and the world is justifying sin, since it sees the Church doing the same!

An active Church is one that is preaching and reaching, while also comforting and helping the needy of the believers conscience rather than some far flung government scheme! Prayer must not be used as an excuse not to talk to people and share our faith with them?

Colossians 2:12, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, 2 Peter 1:8, Revelation 1:4, 11, 20.

The value of Preaching? One.

Has the Gospel any real value Today!

What a strange statement to make, but is it not true when every command in relation to sexual sin, except that of abusing children is ignored by most people who claim a faith in God?

But we have a faith in Jesus that is based on being born-again of the power of the Holy Spirit and we know God as our Father more personal than an idea of Him or an entity!

The message of the Gospel is as relevant today as it was nineteen-hundred years ago, because without it people will be lost to the eternal separation from the light of God and burn in the fires of hell!

We wonder what is wrong with our society, why narcotics, why knife and gun crime, but what we fail to recognise is if we deliberately excuse one sin then all of them can be excused by the world who have no knowledge of the truth?

Revelation 14:6, Mark 9:44-49, Romans 6: 7-9, 11-12, Ephesians 3:9-11, Colossians 1:23.

The Resurrection of Jesus!

Sometimes not fully Understood?

We like to think that all believers understand the fulness of the Easter message as we who have to teach and share it? But many just go along with it as part of the ‘Churchy experience,’ but they do not really believe that it was possible!

It is strange but it is easier to believe that someone, Jesus would die for us to make that final atonement for sin taking our failure on Himself, but at the same time refusing to understand the fulness of what the resurrection means in relation to conquering death and allowing us to enter into the New Life?

More emphasis on this is needed today, so that believers will once more be effective in sharing their faith and not afraid of losing it if attacked by the world? Being active remains an essential of being Born-Again, slackness is the work of the enemy to make the Gospel of Jesus ineffective and our witness non-existent?

Zephaniah 3:8, Acts 2:31, Romans 6:5, Philippians 3:10, Hebrews 6:2, 1 Peter 1:3.

Holocaust Denial?

Historical Revisionism!

How many Gentiles love Jewish people or support Israel today?

Not many is perhaps the answer, then you have some serious problems!

God has a plan for Israel in their promised land that He gave them in times past and that they now possess, there in mention of the Palestinians in His plan, unless they confess Jesus and join the Ekklesia or Bride of Christ?

We must be very careful in relation to what we think we know about the Holy Bible, how we read it and understand it? The Christian Protestant Church is tainted with the false doctrine of Replacement theology that tells believers we get all the blessings and the Jews the curses!

But the Holy Bible never says anything like that and many today who ignore the word of God on many issues will not enter Heaven tax dodgers, braggers, liars, chancers and people who play games with God for unjust motives!

Zephaniah 2:8, Zechariah 2:11, 8:7, Matthew 2:6, 12:42, Mark 12:39, Luke 1:68, 2:32, Acts 7:34, 11:26, Romans 9:27, 11:25, Revelation 2:14, 21:12.

We are living in dangerous times, things will only get worse and Christians are being martyred at an estimated 250 per month worldwide! Most are being killed for many reasons around the world, but in the west its threats to shut-up and don’t rock the boats of sin and disobedience to God!

Historical revisionism is leading silly people to believe lies upon lies and change history in the continued move of being anti-God! Israel is back in its land and it needs to carry on clearing it for Jesus return! The Bible is a hard book and its hard to be a believer, but we must remember that the world has never given us anything good??

Bearing the Name!

CHRISTIAN?

Are you afraid of the lions?

What a strange question to ask a believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus, who is our Lord and saviour?

Our redeemer and the one who is returning one day to gather us His Ekklesia to be taken up with Him!

Yesterday the media reported that two-hundred and fifty Christians are killed world wide each month, probably most of them are real believers over that of carrying the name tag that other religions have?

Today in our ever secular society believers are being attacked for believing the teachings of the Bible, which oppose many issues, moral, sexual and our integrity in business, leadership or management!

But many others in leadership are refusing to make a stand for the truth, because they fear these new lions!

Acts 5:41, 11:26, 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16.

Jesus Circumcision?

Fulfilling the Law and set us Free!

The Law is what the world lives under and to set us free from rules and regulations was the work of Jesus, who we as believers in Him will be celebrating this Christmas?

Many have taken away the emphasis of this part of the story of the birth of Jesus, their reasons may be more to do with anti-Semitism rather than it being just a minor issue!

Jesus came for Israel first and so He had to fulfil the Jewish Law by doing everything that it required, because He was both perfect and sinless a second Adam. If we see this and point it our to others, it will make understanding more of the New Testament teachings in a better way.

Limiting it because its not relevant now, is no excuse in explaining the role of the law which will come up again and again in the scriptures! One is concerned that much racism amongst believers is both a block and short coming to mission, outreach and preaching the Gospel today?

Let us this season stand back knowing the fulness of this season and our own salvation in God, hoping that by our witness others will to come to faith in Jesus the King of Israel and the Saviour of the world!

Luke 2:21, Genesis 17:12, Leviticus 12:3, Galatians 4:4-5.

Israel! Two.

Prophetic and Reality?

Where do we think Jesus will return to when He comes back?

All prophecy is based on the Messiah Jesus in relation to the events that will lead to the end of our world and the great day of Judgement! This will take place in the restored Temple o the Temple mount in Jerusalem and not as some think, Rome or some other place full of Christians?

Jesus is not just returning to gather Ekklesia, but also to restore Y’srael Basilia ot the Kingdom of Israel! Some believe this will be the establishment of the real Israel, but that has already happened so that the false messiah will be revealed!

How can we be sure of this facts, first many believers now know that we are living in the last days of the great delusion! People want to defy God on every level, they also want to undermine the teachings of the Bible and twist them to suit their own agenda!

Israel grows and its enemies are either appeased or are to be removed, the world goes with the idealistic idea of a two state solution, but there is nothing in the Holy Bible in relation to that set up!

Isaiah 10:21-22, Jeremiah 3:14, 31:8, Daniel 11:28-29, Hosea 3:5, Zechariah 8:3, Malachi 1:4, Acts 2:20, 1 Corinthians 1:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4, 2 Timothy 4:8, Hebrews 10:25, 37, 2 Peter 3:4, 10, Revelation 1:10, 2:16, 19:15.

ISRAEL? One.

Biblical and Historical!

It would seem today the state of Israel is not the true restoration of the nation of the Hebrew peoples, because they are not living in a Holy way and not at peace with their neighbours, the Palestinians?

But no other ‘Christian nation is purely Christian in either ethic or morally, so now we come to a dilemma that we are all sinners or just some? One is using this view to draw out the hypocrisy of anti-0Semitism that has been in the Christian Church since at least the second century AD!

We cannot have it both ways, or use excuses when failing to recognise that the Jews are blinded by God so that the Gentiles might be added to the Kingdom of God! There are also many other aspects in relation to the peoples of the land and deals struck long ago, but this was not with the Philistines!

What can be said is why the so called Palestinians living under the Ottomans never developed the land to the standards of what Israel is today or was one-hundred years ago?

Ezekiel 28:25-26, Joshua 9:6-16, Matthew 9:13, Mark 2:17, Romans 11:2, 11-24, Galatians 2:17, James 4:8.

Jesus’ Return? Part-One.

When and Where!

Over the last two-thousand years their has been much speculation and false predictions in relation to the return of Jesus? One has to wonder why do some Christians continue to go against the world of God in relation to the matter, that Jesus said only the father knows all this?

Wither it is replacement theology, modernism or down right Anti-Semitism, it has become a blinder to the whole truth in relation to the Church and Israel! What many believers do not understand is that they are being drip-fed Reformation theological crap, which is not actually in the bible!

Israel and the Church are one in Christos/Messiah, but they are two, when it comes to the bible! This is because the false-Messiah has to come to the Jews in Jerusalem, Israel before the Lords return and that will be to the New Temple!

So now all the rubbish about a two-state solution and the rights of the Philistines to a homeland does not fit the picture of reality, because these beliefs are false and are from the worlds prospective?

Job 15:34, Psalm 98:9, Isaiah 13:9, Daniel 9:27, 12:11, Zephaniah 1:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-14, Revelation 20:4-7.