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More than two-thirds of Americans claim to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and about half attend a church somewhat regularly. But half of those church-goers say their lives have not changed one bit because of their church attendance. And most people today agree that the biggest difference between “Christians“ and non-Christians is that “Christians“ are busy on Sunday mornings.
If a Christian is, by definition, a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ (His disciple, or “apprentice”; Acts 11.26), then why are there so many “Christians“ who attend church but who do not act like Christians?
The answer is simple: They are not Christians; they’re just pretending.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [1John 2.3-4]
Many professing Christians believe they are safely on their way to heaven because they have prayed a prayer, been baptized, joined a church, built friendships at church, learned the “church-talk,” or enjoyed church fellowship activities. However, Jesus Christ Himself said that many would be shocked and horrified on the Day of Judgment when they are told, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matthew 7.21-23). They said they followed the Lord, but they were just pretending!
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? [Luke 6.46]
Jesus said that “by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7.16-20). A true follower of Christ, a Christian, will have a life that bears visible evidence that Jesus is truly his Lord.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words… [John 14.23]
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. [Romans 6.22]
The Bible states clearly and repeatedly that salvation from sin and sin’s penalty (suffering the wrath of God in hell) is graciously given to those who have repented (turned from sin and self) and placed their complete faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ (turning to Christ, to trust and follow Him). That conversion from sin and self, to the Lord will bear genuine, lasting, and visible fruit:
Fruit of Repentance: Turning from sin (Mat 3.8; 2Tim 2.19)
Fruit of Knowledge: A desire to learn Scripture (2Tim 3.15-4.5)
Fruit of Good Works: Obedience to Scripture (John 14.15, 21, 23; Col 1.10)
Fruit of Holiness: Growing in Christ-likeness (Rom 6.22; Gal 5.22-24)
Fruit of Evangelism: An urgency to see others saved (Rom 10.13-17; 2Cor 5.15-20)
The good news of the Gospel is that, even though God is angry with the wicked every day because of their sins against Him (Psalm 7.11), He does not want any to perish and suffer His righteous and just wrath in Hell (2Peter 3.9). God wants all sinners to be saved, and to this end Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross for all, and then rose from the dead defeating death and proving He is God. But Jesus said, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13.3). You must turn from sin and self! And you must turn to the Lord Jesus Christ in faith and trust, because there is no salvation outside of Him (Acts 4.12; 16.30-31)!
Nothing is more important than your eternal destiny. Please examine yourself to see if you are in the faith (2Corinthians 13.5), or if you, like so many others, are just pretending.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? [2Corinthians 13.5]
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. [Matthew 7.13-14]
Almost a year later - March 2010 - Same van but a different location - Micro Center Computer. Plus a surprise............The owner on the left!
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Makawao town Evangelism
My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity
depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if
you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be
born again.”
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You
can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. “For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans
6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.
“ . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place.
“ . . . He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without
shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22).
“ . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our
place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, “God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of
mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they
said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God
resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is
received as Savior.
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on His name” (John 1:12).
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner.
I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and
resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift
of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no
lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your
place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you
receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe
on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand
it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very
moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no
temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1
Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved,
there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
Pray -- you talk to God.
Read your Bible -- God talks to you.
Witness -- you talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and
then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8)
“Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which
is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).
Fly Heels at the Sorapol launch catwalk in St George's Church of England, London. Photo courtesy TheXOXOKids.
"9/6/05
So today Nancy had this girl vanessa meet me at my house this morning. It's only the first day of my junior yr. & everyone's already trying to get me to make more friends. wtf. I really don't feel like it. & this Vanessa girl had the balls to come into my yard & start preaching to me about god. wtf. I f****** hate bible thumpers. wtf.
anyways, my mom seems to be in remission but she has a hard time walking. and she's still a b****."
Prior to this day, I had grown up lonely, rejected, depressed, and mostly suicidal. By this point, I had rejected God, took a stab at Wicca and witchcraft, and still ended up nowhere. This school year, 2005-2006, would become one of the worst time periods of my life, as if I hadn't gone through enough before that.
By James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Opaque watercolour over graphite on grey wove paper, Image: 9 1/8 x 7 ins. (23.2 x 17.8 cms). Brooklyn Museum New York
John 3:1-18 "There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, 'Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.' Jesus answered and said to him, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?' Jesus answered, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, "You must be born again." The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.' Nicodemus answered and said to Him, 'How can these things be?' Jesus answered and said to him, 'Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.'""
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Muslim watching born again evangelical Christian preacher at Speaker's Corner, London
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The crucified Jesus hangs on the cross in the grounds of an Anglican church watching some Muslim boys pass by. Peterborough, UK.
This was Ray Hunter's farm in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, near Berwick or Middleton. In 1974 Ray and his wife started the Born Again Barn ministry, which attracted many new converts who were being led out of the traditional denominations. We sat around on hay bales. In the summer of 1974 the Hunter's hosted a music festival which included a chalk artist. I invited my hippie friends from Qua Qua farm (later renamed "The Garden of Jesus") and even though I told them it was Christian rock music, they only heard rock music. As a result, most of them got saved that summer. Perry, his wife (Elizabeth?) and Mark and Beth Crosby are the one's I remember.
I moved away from my grandmother, and I was born again. Truly, truly saved by grace and faith alone.
I made the decision to move sometime in late April 2009. Vanessa and I had lost connection and reconnected on and off since I graduated high school, but I began to spend more time with her since she began taking my grandma to the doctor in March. She had always offered to let me move in with her and her family. I was always scared to... until now. I packed up my belongings in two weeks, the last two weeks of the spring 09 semester, and snuck them out of my house to hers. I wrote my grandma a letter telling her why I was leaving, and I left while she was sleeping.
Flyer from a street preacher whose only audience was the guy handing out these flyers for him. My atheism remains unchanged.
To Be Seen
If we’re not looking up at God, we’re looking inward at ourselves and outward at each other. The result? Quarreling families. Restless leaders. Fence-building. No trespassing signs.
If we see only ourselves, our tombstones will have the same epitaph Paul used to describe enemies of Christ: “Their god is their own appetite, they glory in their shame, and this world is the limit of their horizon” (Philippians 3:19).
It’s why God came near. To be seen. It’s why those who saw Him were never the same. Christianity, in its purest form, is nothing more than seeing Jesus. And Christian service is nothing more than imitating Him whom we see. The Bible says, “Unless a man is born again, He cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
God came near. There is no truth more worthy of your time.
From God Came Near- Max Lucado
Today Chaplin Glad spoke on one being "a new guy".
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5: 16-18
إذاً إنْ كانَ أحَدٌ فِي المَسِيحِ، فَهُوَ الآنَ خَلِيقَةٌ جَدِيدَةٌ. النِّظامُ القَدِيمُ قَدِ انتَهَى، وَها كُلُّ شَيءٍ قَدْ صارَ جَدِيداً.
Si quelqu’un est en Christ, il est une nouvelle création. Les choses anciennes sont passées; voici, toutes choses sont devenues nouvelles.
Darum, ist jemand in Christo, so ist er eine neue Kreatur; das Alte ist vergangen, siehe, es ist alles neu geworden!
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51: 10.
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” John 3: 3.
One of my favorite praise songs: "I'm Alive Again", Matt Maher: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w5szlpedY
You called and you shouted,
Broke through my deafness
Now I'm breathing in, breathing out
I'm alive again.
"Born Again", Third Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_dP2n-5W8
An Asian perspective, "Great Bell Chant"
player.vimeo.com/video/6518109
National Museum of Korea link: www.museum.go.kr/main/index/index002.jsp
Museum set at: www.flickr.com/photos/karl_wolfgang/sets/72157625245872797/
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Evangelical Christian preacher shouting at Muslim at Speaker's Corner, London
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Growing up, I was forced to eat whatever was put in front of my face, no ifs, ands, or buts. By the time I was five years old I was already fat, to the point where, on the rare occasion my dad would come over, he'd be like, "STOP FEEDING HER!"
I was force fed up until I was 19, when I moved out.
Even if I wasn't hungry, I was threatened to have the food dumped on my head if I didn't finish. I would always feel sick and since I wasn't allowed to go out or do anything, naturally, all I could do was get fat. From the world's standpoint, one couldn't really blame me for hating myself and trying to be "bulimic" and "anorexic" since I could do nothing about my situation.
Was out traipsing in the woods this afternoon, enjoying a beautiful fall day. Came upon some abandoned vehicles and caught this - which I thought was timely.
VB30 - Born Again. We visit Help Island & London City in search of noobs to "baptize" into their new, virtual life.