MINISTRY UPDATE - FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2014

GOOD MORNING!

 

A VIDEO MESSAGE:  http://youtu.be/9sLHYmFSSPM

 

PRAYER REQUESTS:

 

--PRAY FOR THE SERVICES THIS WEEKEND--Let's pray that the lost will find Christ, that all of us will draw closer to the Savior this weekend.

 

--MELISSA WILKERSON'S dear Grandmother passed away yesterday.  Let's hold this family up in our prayers.

 

--KEEP PRAYING FOR OUR SO SHINE 18TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!  Revival September 16-21.  ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

 

--CECELIA SPOTTED BEAR appreciates our prayers as her family mourns the loss of her grand daughter.

 

--DUSTIN DODSON'S GRANDFATHER DON RAINES is at DePaul Hospital

 

NEWS UPDATES:

 

--TEEN NIGHT WILL START EARLIER THIS EVENING...WE WOULD LIKE TO START AT 6PM as the Pastor has to drive to Upland, Indiana for a meeting of the VICTORY INNER CITY MISSION board on Saturday Morning. 

 

--BUS ROUTE CALLERS WILL MEET FOR PRAYER AT 10AM SATURDAY 

 

--SEMINARIANS WILL BE MEETING THIS SUNDAY AT 5:30 PM

 

--BE A "SO SHINE" HOME ... Find out details this Sunday!

 

QUOTE:  "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

Helen Keller

 

YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. Matthew 5:12

 

Jesus gives the Christian both a great compliment and a great responsibility when He says that we are the light of the world, because He claimed that title for Himself as He walked this earth (John 8:12 and John 9:5).   Adam Clarke

 

WE ARE LIGHT GIVERS. Jesus means that we are not only light-receivers, but also light-givers. We must have a greater concern than only ourselves, and we cannot live only to ourselves; we must have someone to shine to, and do so lovingly.

 

Jesus never challenged us to become salt or light. He simply said that we are - and we are either fulfilling or failing that given responsibility.

 

AS LIGHT GIVERS WE ARE TO GIVE DISCTINCTION. A key thought in both the pictures of salt and light is distinction. Salt is needed because the world is rotting and decaying, and if our Christianity is also rotting and decaying, it won't be any good. Light is needed because the world is in darkness, and if our Christianity imitates the darkness, we have nothing to show the world. To be effective we must seek and display the Christian distinctive. We can never affect the world for Jesus by becoming like the world. (Commentary)

IF WE ARE "DIM LITS" THE WORLD SUFFERS  "Poor world, poor world, it is dark, and gropes in midnight, and it cannot get light except it receives it through us!...To be the light of the world surrounds life with the most stupendous responsibilities, and so invests it with the most solemn dignity. Hear this, ye humble men and women, ye who have made no figure in society, ye are the light of the world. If ye burn dimly, dim is the world's light, and dense its darkness." (Spurgeon)

 

 

I've been trying to squeeze more and more information into my Daily Scripture Texts and FaceBook Text Postings, and that seems to be hard to manage.  So today I'm adding the link to our blog so that I can add PRAYER REQUESTS, NEWS UPDATES, and a few COMMENTS.  Let me know if this is a good idea.