Immigration Issues!

Effecting Europe and the United States?

People and governments want people to leave, because they fear a spike in crime, but in the U.K. most of the crime is committed by West-Indians and Nigerians and not those who are seeking their right to ask for asylum, a right promised from the days of empire!

In the U.S. it has more to do with illegals over staying and the problems with narcotics coming in from S-America, that needs to be curtailed and it is being hit, but this is only for show the real numbers is staggering and many white Americans are well known to be involved?

In the Gospel of Luke we have three accounts in relations to foreigners doing the right things, when religious Jews turned a blind eye, it proves that we cannot paint all the people with the same brush and we cannot judge the unmarried or those who are seriously ill with Aids and other dangerous infection!

Luke 10:25-33. 17:16-18, John 4:9, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 7:25.

Sunday evening Services! Two.

Ekklesia is not like the Kosmon?

What is being lost in not having an Sunday evening service is that of fellowship of believers ahead of the working week! The world is very hostile most of the time to believers, we are attacked for what disagrees with their standards and ours are dismissed as archaic?

A two hour slot of praise, prayer and preaching with an after fellowship of just meeting and talking with folk is the varied ways of helping and leading others to God! When you have worked prior to going into ministry, you are more likely to see the needs in particular loneliness and despair!

God came to save sinners and the Ekklesia is a place for believers to meet together and be built up, its not a club or some unneeded tradition of religious observance! We need to help those who are seeking God and keep our flocks well watered and fed?

Acts 2:42, Romans 16:8, Philippians 2:1, Philemon 1:6, 1 John 1:6.

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.

How we do outreach/reach out?

Lack of Witness!

There is a serious decline today in preaching and teaching the biblical message to the lost in society, their seems to have been a change were the Church is now more aligned with the world than it is with God and the Holy Bible?

Perhaps the main cause for this change is the fear of persecution or having to give up the panelled homes of the clergy who life the life of Riley at the cost of their faith!

But many believers continue to share their faith with others, even not compromising on homosexuality but warning of the consequences of unrepentance and change that is required by God when entering into the New Life!

Out-reach-out remains one of the most important forms of witness for believers and Gods Ekklesia, it reveals to the community who and what we are and how we should care for the people around us instead of ourselves and hoping that God-Jesus will do the hard work for us?

Matthew 3:3, 7:2, 18:14, Luke 7:22, John 14:6, Acts 9:31, Romans 1:17, 1 Corinthians 12:2, Ephesians 2:20, Colossians 4:5.