Cross Culture Ministries

    It’s hard pressing forward in this Christian walk, to keep our eyes focused on the one who saved us.  To give our time, our love, our all to Christ there are points when we hit roadblocks, stumbling blocks, and walls.  Which are ways to get us either on our face, our back and yes even our knees.  There are even times when we need to go back to move forward.  There are times when our current paths may just end very suddenly and we have to turn around and go back.  In 1 Samuel 29:1-11, this happened to David because the Philistines did not trust him, obviously so, since he did take out Goliath.  Achish was faced with sending back his most faithful servant, David.  David did as Achish requested and went back, without grumbling, without complaining.

    We need to look at David and his life because he wasn’t perfect, but he did follow God.  David was a true leader and those qualities, those characteristics showed in how he handled himself through certain situations.  That is how Christians need to be in our churches today.  We all have a senior pastor, he is the leader, the one that God has placed in charge.  We do look to that person for direction and leadership.  Ultimately we seek God’s will for guidance and I believe to find our place within the body of Christ.  If we are one, if we are unified, revival will break out, there will be a down pour of the Holy Spirit.  There will be SALVATION!!  We need to remember that sometimes going backwards helps us get ahead.

    I don’t want to just go through the motions in my walk, in my relationship with Christ.  I don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to be a blessing or receiving one.  This life is truly hectic, and we do tend to get busy, preoccupied with stuff, work, kids, spouse, etc…….  The sad thing is that we are not preoccupied with Christ.  We say we are, we bury our feelings, our problems and go through the motions.  Christ is not a routine, a to do list.  He is our Lord, our Saviour, our Creator, our Protector, our Provider.  He is the one that overturned tables in the temple, raised a 12 year old girl from the dead.  He is the one that faced a horrible, horrible beating and persecution.  He is the one that faced the cross and took all of our sins; past, present, future and experienced a separation from His Father.  Christ felt the lonliness, the guilt, the stress, the weight, the shame.  That is not going through the motions, that is setting things in motion.

    When life gets in the way, stop, go to God on your knees and talk, share, spend time with the Master.  It’s not wrong to consult others, we are suppose to encourage and lift up our brothers and sisters in the Lord.  But, we shouldn’t make that our primary source for direction or guidance.  When God tells us something, we need to do it.  When God is moving we need to get on board and move with Him.  i would hate to miss the bus and never get another chance.  See in 1 Samuel 28: 1-25 that is exactly what Saul did,  he did not obey the Lord and ended up consulting a witch and living with the fact that the Lord has left him.  in desperate times, people will do desperate things, and consult the most unlikely sources.  What is our primary source day to day?  Mine is not always God, it is me, because I try to handle it on my own.  I’m thankful for God’s patience, mercy, grace and love.  He guides me, He allows me to take certain paths for a reason and I do think I am learning.  Atleast I better be!!

Ready or not here we come! We closed out last year (2008) with a study on service and how we can worship our Creator through service. CCM is going to see some great things come through our acts of service.

This Saturday, March 14, 2009 we are going to be assisting a ministry called Loaves and Fishes. Located in Greenville, they are a ministry that provides fresh food to rescue missions and the under privileged. What an awesome oppurtunity to serve our God while serving others. We are reminded of Matthew 25:35-40.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’”

Pretty awesome oppurtunity for worship! We will LEAVE the church parking lot at 9:30am. So be there by 9am to load the bus. Our route will take us to BI-LO on S. Pleasantburg. Then, to Krispy Kreme and our route will finish up at the downtown Rescue Mission. We will do lunch and take break. Then we will finish the night bowling at an undetermined venue in Greenville. We are still working on prices right now. Three lanes are being reserved at 8pm. So invite other people if you want to. Hope to see ya there!

    This past thursday night we had our REGENERATION bible study for our college students.  God is moving in this ministry.  We had a great group, we had 19 total!  PRAISE GOD- He deserves every ounce of praise and credit.  I honestly felt the spirit with us thursday evening and He was moving.  Due to some things that came up we had to move our bible study from the cafe to our chapel where we meet for our sunday services.  At first I really thought because of the size of the chapel and the size of the group that it would be intimidating and everyone would feel uncomfortable.  It was anything but that, it was very intimate and possibly what we needed for this group.

    That night I had the priviledge of sharing the word and we talked about “Following God”.  You see we follow alot of different things in this world.  We follow sports teams; know every stat, every player and get more excited about that than seeing someone accept Christ.  We follow music and those bands that are in, that are cool and we know all their songs, know when their next album is coming out and even know more about the band’s personal life than they do (thats scary!).  We follow these things and more because we want to be in with the crowd, don’t want to be left out.  So whats the outcome?  We end up investing all of our time, money and brain power (what little we have).  We also invest our emotions, because we feel like we can identify with these people in the spotlight.  Its to the point that we are passionate about them or what they do and we want to share with everyone we meet.  We choose to follow people or things.  We looked at someone that chose his path, choses what he would follow.  We looked at Achan and what he did.  You see a couple of weeks ago I talked about Joshua and the battle of Jericho.  The Israelites had just come out of the wilderness and had to go to battle.  The Lord handed that city to them without one casuality, but with one stipulation, they could not touch the things set apart.  The items specified within the city was to be given to God.  Well somone among them chose not to follow this command and it had a huge impact, not only on his life but all of the people of Israel.  We looked at three ways of following God within the context of this story.  We focused on Joshua 7: 1-26:  [1] Follow God in Defeat, [2] Follow God through Obstacles, [3] Follow God into Repentance.

    [1] Follow God in Defeat (vs. 1-9):  You see the Israelites had to face another opponent and that was the city of Ai.  Joshua sent some spies over to check them out.  Any smart leader would do that, because you need to know the land, the people and the military; you have got to have a strategy going into battle.  The men cam back and told Joshua that “we got this”, there is not that many men in that city and lets send only 2,000 to 3,000 men to battle and save the rest of our army, give them some rest.  They got a little to big for their britches and somewhat cocky.  Joshua agreed and sent the 2,000 to 3,000 men to Ai.  Well needless to say that they got their rear ends handed to them that day and lost 36 men to make matters worse.  Joshua was messed up!  He tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the Lord and stayed there all day until evening.  Joshua started complaining about being defeated.  In (vs. 7) Joshua even questioned God’s direction and stated that he was afraid that the news would spread and then everyone would come and wipe them out.  That is really what our walk with Christ is like especially when we face defeat.  Really we need to reevaluate and see where our priorities are, are we spending each day talking with God in prayer, are we studying God’s word everyday.  Where is our focus?  You know, its easy to say God is in control when things are good!  Are we getting to big for our britches and what battles are we loosing that we shouldn’t.

    [2] Follow God through Obstacles (vs. 10 – 22):  When Joshua was in his pity party God told him to “Stand Up!”.  Joshua needed to stop complaining and listen, because there was someone among them that disobeyed and brought this outcome upon them.  There was a thief among them, someone had taken what God commanded them not to touch, to leave alone.  This was supposed to be like their tithe to God to show obedience, this would be just like today if we took our tithes and went out and bought a new cell phone, or a new xbox game, even going out and buying new clothes or new shoes.  This is stealing, which is wrong, actually its just plain crazy because this is disobeying God.  Not only was this person a thief but also a liar.  God told Joshua that He would not bless them.  He would not be with them and they would not win another battle until this is rectified.  There needed to be repentance among the people.  Joshua had to go tribe by tribe and interrogate and investigate.  He brought out the CSI dept., to fingerprint, do DNA testing and check for any possible fibers that may have been left behind to link someone to the crime.  Joshua had to go tribe by tribe and clan by clan.  What that means is that if my family was there then Joshua would have to go to the Crocker clan, which means starting with my grandparents (if still alive), then my parents, then to me, my wife and my kids if they are at the age of accountability.  After all this, what does he find but that this is a family affair.  The thief and liar was within his own family, it was Achan.  Joshua had to go to him and confront him with this.  Achan admitted to everything, he spilled his guts.  Told Joshua of everything he took, down to the last item and also told him where he hid the stolen goods.  When we are defeated in our walk its because of the obstacles within our paths.  We are like Joshua and Achan at the same time.  When we are having problems we complain, doubt God and get into our own pity party.  At this point we loose sight of those obstacles that got us here, we just sweep them under the rug and we end up there again down the road.  We hide stuff, we bury it just like Achan, when we really need to be like Joshua and clean house, confront the problem and give it to God.  That means repent even though it is painful, its needed.

    [3] Follow God into Repentance (vs. 23 -26):  Now, the evidence was brought to light, it was spread out for all Israel and the Lord to see, even though God already knew what Achan had done and where he hid everything.  Now that everything was found out, now was the time for repentance and do as God directed.  What they had to do was harsh and I would not want to be in Joshua’s sandals at this point.  They couldn’t let this cloud of disobedience hang over them because it was blocking God’s blessings.  In (vs. 25) Joshua was face to face with Achan and Joshua asked him “Why have you brought this trouble on us?  The Lord will bring trouble on you today.”  Joshua was telling him that it was time to face the music and answer for the choice he made, the disobedience he chose to follow.  Achan’s punishment was death, he had to be stoned.  Not only that but after he was stoned his wife had to be stoned and all of his children had to be stoned and all of his livestock destroyed and all material possessions destroyed.  Not only that, after the whole family was stoned they all had to be burned and then their ashes had rocks heaped over top of them.  God’s blessings were restored, they were forgiven.  We are the same way, but this doesn’t mean that we will be stoned physically, or burned up physically.  It does mean that if we don’t let God have that sin within our lives that spiritually we will be stoned, we will be burned up so that we can be brought back into a right relationship with Him.  We need to get it right before God, before its brought to plain sight.  Don’t let the sin you chose to follow destroy your walk, testimony, family or even your church.

    What does it really mean to follow?  Following God begins with our obedience.  If we look right smack dab in the middle of the word obedience is a little three letter word “DIE”.  To be obedient to God we have to die to ourselves. (Php. 1:21)  “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”  What does that mean?  That means we are not to die physically, but spiritually.  We are to drop our own plans and goals in favor of God’s.  We have to die to our agenda and die to our plans or the plans for your life that have been superimposed on us by whoever influenced us or by whoever said we were going to do this.  What it boils down to is that it takes FAITH!  I think faith comes in when you’re willing to lay that down and say “Okay God, whatever you say.”  

   This past week, on Thursday was just awesome.  We had a change of scenery for our REGENERATION bible study.  We went to Fuddruckers on WadHampton Blvd..  We had a blast and not only did we have fun hanging out and eating but we got to study God’s word right there in the parking lot.  One more thing that was just amazing is that we had our biggest group to date!  We had 17 people there, GOD IS GOOD!

    My brother Corey Smith brought the word to us that night and shared what God laid on his heart.  He talked about commitment and talked about Ruth (Ruth 1:15-18).  Corey did a wonderful job that night.  He brought us 4 points on commitment:  [1] Commitment is a problem in today’s world  [2] We are obligated to serve God when we proclaim Him as Saviour  [3] DO NOT be swayed by anyone  [4] How do we commit to grow Christians and as Cross Culture Ministries?

     Everyone of these are excellent points that we need to use to evaluate our lives and commitment to Christ.  [1] Commitment is a problem in today’s world.  That sentence alone speaks volumes because there is not much commitment in our churches today, it is all laid on the shoulders of the pastors and staff and that is wrong.  That does not any way shape or form line up with the Great Commission.  Corey shared a great quote by Marian Wright Edelman: “You’re not obligated to win.  You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”  How true this is because we are obligated to give our best and keep trying for Christ each and everyday of our lives.  [2] We are obligated to serve God when we proclaim Him as our Savior.  Once we become His child we are commanded to serve Him it should be our soul passion to do so.  Deut. 6:5 – “Love the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with allyour strength.”  Give your best, your all, Christ did so why should we give God our leftovers.  [3] DO NOT be swayed by anyone.  How easy this is to take place in our lives, especially when we are not grounded as we should be and we are at our weakest point in our walk with Christ.  We are not here to please man, but God and God alone.  It doesn’t mean we separate ourselves from human contact but rather make sure we let people know what we stand for and why through love and compassion.  Look at Ruth she was not swayed by her mother-in-law or the examples set by her sister-in-law (v.16).    [4] How do we commit to grow Christians and as Cross Culture Ministries?  We must committed to serving Christ in the good times and especially in the bad times.  People are watching us and we must be sure that we are living out our faith and live it boldly.  Ruth saw the commitment that Naomi (mother-in-law) had to God and Ruth wanted to follow her and find out more about her Creator.  Alot of people are searching and believing in other religions that promise that their god will return.  Marian Wright Edelman quoted it best: “A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone.  We are it, and it is up to us.  It is up to you.”  We must do the footwork, God will do the soul work; BE INTENTIONAL!!

    I will end on this, God will bless a work of commitment: (1 kings 8:23)  “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below – you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.” 

    Thursday night we had another great turn out for our REGENERATION bible study.  We discussed “Bold Choices” and how we face choices day in and day out.  We make small choices and we make very important choices, which at times we make them it seems out of habit, no real thought is involved.  What we must realize is that alot of choices that we make take guts- takes FAITH!  We looked @ Joshua and the choices he was presented with to make not only for himself but for an entire nation.

    We looked @ Joshua 5:13 – 6:16.  Joshua was in a leadership position and he was bringing the Israelites out of the wilderness, after 40 yrs.  They started eating from the land, the manna had ceased.  They were looking for a permanent home, very tired of wandering.  We looked @ 3 choices made: (1) Choice of Obedience and Respect. (2) Choice of Jericho or Just Say No! (3) Choice to Follow or Forget It!

    In 5:13-15 we see that Joshua was approached by a man, they were near Jericho @ this time, and Joshua asked if he was friend or foe.  Joshua found out he was the commander of the Lord’s army.  There are many theories to this, some say it was God the Father, some say it was God the son (Jesus), could also have been an angle, possibly Michael.  Joshua realized that he was in the Presence of the Lord and immediately bowed his face to the ground.  His choice was made out of obedience and respect.  Joshua shared a W.O.R.D. (Worship Obedience Respect Devotion).  Then Joshua asks what was the message that the Lord had, what was required.  Joshua was ready, ready to serve in what ever capacity necessary, he made his choice no matter the cost.  (1)CHOICE OF OBEDIENCE AND RESPECT.

    Joshua learns that he is to attack Jericho, but not in the conventional way.  The Lord tells Joshua that the city is handed to them.  All that was required was to march, sound the trumpets and shout- do this for 7 days.  Jericho was one fortified city, no one allowed oout or in.  I’m sure the thought of no way they could get in crossed Joshua’s mind, but did not let that distract him from the task at hand.  Joshua knew God would take care of them, because he had for 40 years!  Joshua agreed to the mission, made his choice once again, but now had to relay this to the people.  This leads to the last point…..

    (3) CHOICE TO FOLLOW OR FORGET IT!  Joshua presented the strategy, God’s plan for providing a new home.  The people had a choice, being human they probably thought, “we have been in the wilderness for 40 yrs., and we are really tired and really don’t need anymore enemies to contend with, and plus what about the possibility of causalties.”  This also had to cross there minds, ” How are we supposed to look threating marching around a city like we are throwing Jericho a parade, and besides this place cannot be defeated, its to strong.”  The people accepted the mission they did not really state those comments but rather immediately started to march, they made their choice.  They chose to follow, march, sound the trumpets/ shout, obey.  These are chocies that take guts and take faith.  There are victory are in our choices.  I’m sure it was an amazing site to see about 40,000 people marching around this city and sounding the trumpets.  I bet the mosincredible site was the 7th day when all 40,000 shouted in unison after the trumpets, this was probably one of the greatest worship events in history to this point.

    After looking at this we need to consider the choices that we will make. Our lives are like the city of Jericho.  We have huge walls around us, we are tightly shut up and let no one in and nothing out.  We try to solve our own problems and heal our own wounds.  There is one thing, Christ is wanting to be a part of our lives.  When He gets close we reinforce the walls, add more bricks, more dirt, more mud, more sins, we try to run.  Christ at times tries to get our attention, but most of the time He is waiting on us, waiting on us to SHOUT to Him, so that our walls will crumble and allow Christ access to our lives.  By doing this we can gain access to our identity; let Christ reveal who we are, let Christ reveal our passions.  It doesn’t matter how small the decision, let Christ be involved in the choices that we make.

    Our choices define who we are, in our character, the way we handle situations or people.  Our beliefs, such as Is God real, or Am I part of His plan and if so what is my purpose.  We need to be who God wants and designed us to be and that is serving Him, giving Him our all, no regrets.

“CHOOSE TO FOLLOW CHRIST; CHOOSE TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE!”

    Last night our “REGENERATION” bible study met and it was a wonderful time.  The numbers were down a little, but we still had a great time getting into God’s Word and hanging out.  Last night we talked about Transition, which means change; movement.  There are all types of changes we face in our lives.  We may move, get a new job, graduate high school/ college, go away to college, marriage, kids, divorce, etc..  There are numerous transition periods within a lifetime, some exciting some excruciating.  No matter what it is good!

    Last night we looked at the story of Noah.  You know the guy who built the boat, the floating zoo!  Noah went through some transitions in his life and so did  his family.  God wanted Noah to build a boat for a flood that was suppose to come from rain that they haven’t had in years.  I’m not sure what Noah’s occupation was at the time, he may have owned his own business, but God had plans, incredible specific plans.  Noah experienced 3 transitions:  (1) moral- due to society and how corrupt and evil the people were, God decided that every living creature must be destroyed ( things were out of hand). (2) occupational- God had a new job for noah (build a boat). (3) spiritual- a covenant made with noah and his family.

    Our focus was on Genisis 6: 9-22.  The moral transistion was the fact that everyone was corrupt, evil in their hearts and mind 24/7.  No one even acknowledged God except for one man.  Noah was given a huge responsibility not only to build a boat but to repopulate the earth, here was noah’s occupational transition.  I wonder went through his mind when God asked him to build a boat?  I wonder if noah was like, I don’t even have dock ot a permit for a dock, we don’t even have a yacht club, now i gotta get some sunscreen and dramamean(not sure if this is spelled right), what if it sinks!  I can’t swim and I’ll need some arm floaties and fun noodles.  Not even close he did as God commanded this is why God chose Noah.  Noah was righteous, not perfect or sinless, he lived wholehearted for God and put God first in his life.  The spiritual transition came when the boat was completed, even during I should say.  You know Noah was mocked, laughed at, probably people called him an idiot and that he was crazy.  It didn’t phase him at all, he kept his focus and finished the task and then waited.  You see in Gen. 7:1 we see the first biblical invitation, God tells noah and his family to “go into the ark”  or “come”.  Here God made a covenant with noah.  Jesus renews this invitation in Matt. 11:28 “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”  Christ’s burden is light, His job/ invitation to us is simple, fulfill the GREAT COMMISSION.

    So, are we in constant transition?  Are we being moved?  Are we accepting the invitation that God has for us?  If we are not involved in transition, then we are in hesitation and God will find someone willing to be that “Noah” or vessel to get His mission accomplished. BE TRANSITIONAL!

Last night our bible study group “regeneration” met and continued in our elevate bible study.  It was led by my brother Corey Smith and he did an excellent job.  The topic was on being tossed around and facing unfair situations.  His scripture for the message was in Matthew 20: 1-15 and John 21: 18-21.  We do face unfair situations in our lives and it seems that others get the best end of the deal and we are left holding on to the scraps.  We are born into this world selfish individuals and we search to provide for self and not others.  What can others do for me or what can I do for myself.  We even try to justify our actions by using other peoples faults or mistakes to make us look good.  If this is how we choose to live we will live in chaos and frustration.  Giving God your everything requires sacrifice but compared to what Christ sacrificed I think we really need to quit the belly aching and “COWBOY UP”!  Its time to lead by example instead of telling others how to do it and we go about life on our own terms.  Once again Corey did an awesome job and praise God for how He is developing corey into the leader that he is and I am honored to be working side by side with him.  Also on another awesome note we had a total of 16 @ the bible study.  PRAISE GOD!  Lets continue to talk this thing up, excuse me lets keep talking Christ up and see peoples lives changed!

    Last night we had our first bible study group (”REGENERATION”) meeting.  It was a great time of opening God’s word and digging in and fellowshipping.  We discussed unmet expectations and was expectations that youg people have on them and how they handle them.  The biggest thing is that in your life that you focus on the content of your life more than the context.  The context is your situation (job, family, school, friends, etc…).  The content is your character in the situation that you are in,  Basically how you handle yourself, because your actions do speak louder than words.

    We also looked @ Hagar in Gensis ch. 16.  This was Ishmael’s mother, she was also Sarai’s slave.  She offered Sarai to Abram her husband because she was unable to have children.  Well this really turned into a fiasco and Sarai became jealous and bitter toward Hagar and mistreated her.  Hagar could not take it anymore and ran away.  The Lord sent and angel to her to comfort her because the Lord heard her cries and the Lord wanted to comfort her in her time of hurt.  Hagar then named God, “The God Who Sees”. 

    We are no diiferent from Hagar, we all have hard situations and make some wrong choices.  God is ther to strengthen us to comfort us because He does hear ouor cries.  We must also remember that running away from a situation will not take care of it or make it go away, because most of the time the problem is us.  “Whever you go, there you are!”  No matter where we go, the one person we can’t escape from besides ourselves is God.  So we’d better come to an honest resolution of what is it that God wants for us, not from us.  Hopefully we can come to a realization that we are created to do something meaningful.

    Our focus should be, what are God’s expectations for my life and the situations that I encounter.  Remember, that expectation is plain and simple, “The Great Commission” ( Mt. 28: 16-20).

…………..Expect the unexpected because God is in the unexpected!

    sur·ren·der -  to give oneself up, as into the power of another; submit or yield.

    We think of surrender as being defeated, as quitting or submitting.  This is true in the world’s eyes.  When it comes to Christ surrender is victory, surrender is power, surrender is freedom.  We must surrender in order to be directed and guided in the direction God wants us to go.  Today God blessed me tremendously, and what I’m about to tell is of God and from God.  It is God and God alone that deserves and should receive all the honor and all the glory.

    As in my last posting I talked about (”pay it forward”) the cash that WAC gave to each person so that we may be a blessing and start practicing generosity.  That opportunity presented itself today, and it was not an accident, it was a divine appointment.  I was on HWY. 253 heading back to work when I noticed a guy on the side of the road, his car was jacked up and a tire was off.  After I noticed this I did keep on going.  As I passed the Lord just reached down and slapped me in the back of the head and said, “he’s the one, he’s in need and you need to help him.”  So I turned around and pulled up to him and asked him if he was ok and if he needed any help.  The guy told me that he was involved in a hit and run and his tire was damaged.  He told me all that it needed was valve stem and asked me if I would take the tire to be repaired, he was waiting on the police.  I told him I would and on my way to get the tire repaired the Lord spoke again and told me to just get him another tire.  That is exactly what I did and on my way back I prayed, “Lord, I thank you for this opportunity, and I ask that you prepare his heart and give me the opportunity to witness.  I know that he may not except you right now but I pray that a seed is planted here today.”  I get back and told the guy I got him a new tire and he wanted to know how much he owed me.  I explained that he did not owe me a dime.  I then began to tell him that the reason I stopped to help is because the Lord told me to because he was in need and that I needed to help him.  He beagn looking at me funny, then  I explained that the Lord also wanted me to bless him in another way and I handed him some cash( the money left over from buying the tire).  He refused and refused, but I told him that this was not my money, it was God’s money and that He blessed me with the money so that I may bless someone else and he was the one I was suppose to bless.  At this point his look toward me of one that I was crazy turned into a look of bewilderment and his eyes filled up as if he was about to cry.  Then the door just swung wide open and my opportunity presented itself.  I then told him that the greatest gift I had ever received was Jesus Christ.  I talked to him about his salvation and explained how Christ died for our sins and he told me he went to church.  I told him that going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, it is your relationship with Christ.  I explained that all you have to do is believe that Christ lived a perfect and sinless life and that he died for our sins and rose again.  Then I told him that if he wasn’t sure of his salvation that he can take care of that right now.  Well wouldn’t you know it there we are on the side of the road and my brother, yes my brother Ricky Sloan accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior!  I felt like the disciples as they ministered to people, not in a church but on the side of the road, surrendering to God and his will.  My brother has a new destination and that is HEAVEN!

    Victory is truly in surrender and surrender is in Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ is Victory!

………………..THE REVOLUTION BEGINS!  TO GOD BE THE GLORY AND HONOR!