Look where we have come to

Most of the great universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton were founded and taught by God fearing Pastors and people. I have read many of their constitutions and all said they were founded for the glory of God and the prorpogations of the gospel of Christ.

 

Most "rescue" missions were founded to reach and win men and women to Christ. They attracted the people through feeding and sleeping them. I have preached in dozens of mission. One of my favorite places to minister. My whole family spent all of one Christmas day in the great Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago eating with the people and preaching 5 times that day and loved it.

 

The Salvation Army, the YMCA and YWCA were founded as a Christian organization also to win people to Christ through their means.

 

The Baptist Hospitals, Methodist Hospitals, Presbyterian Hospitals were all founded not just to minister to people physically but as a means to minister spiritually. On and On we could go.

 

The truth is now, you can not put up tract racks in them to try to win people to Christ. I have tried. Many of course have Chaplains and most do not witness to win people to Christ. I have been there too many times and no one tried to win me to Christ. I have the thrillof life to win many nurses to Christ in the hospitals. What happened to these wonderful institutions. They went from a spiritual ministry to a social ministry and left their primary purpose. Of course, not all of them but most of them. Have you tried to give out tracts in some of these places. I have and been told, we are not supposed to do that for we offend other religions.

 

Now, the same happens in churches. Liberal churches all over America never preach against sin nor the positive of preaching the gospel how Christ suffered and died for our sins and rose again. Prosperity theology where every one is told how to live prosperously. is a prime subject in some of the largest churches. No gospel No preaching how the Lord Jesus suffered and died for sins, rose again and was seen by hundreds.

Christianity is banned from public schools, sports events but a singer can bare her breasts and the crowd goes wild cheering her on.

 

My wife is very ill right now and you should hear most tell her we are thinking about you, you are in our thoughts and this by professed Christians. Lets give the gospel to people, lets pray for people not think about them. "Blessed in the nation whose God is the Lord" We were one of those nations and now we are turning our backs on what made us the wonderful, prosperous, loving nation in the world. GOD HELP US. Lets get back to God before it is too late, if it is not already too late. make sense? I know. I have only scratched the surface. All Because of Calvary, Sumner and Celeste

The secret to an evangelist's great ministry. POWERFUL

Celeste is not doing well and we need wisdom to know what to do. PRAY, PRAY!

 

Jesse Hendly was a powerful and prominent pastor and evangelist some fifty years ago. I heard so many phenomenal stories of how God used him. Celeste and I went to a Bible conference and met about six couples from Colonial Hills Baptist Church just outside Atlanta GA. One couple became very close friends, Price and Willis Horton. Price was probably Jesse's right hand man.

Every time we were with them, I would pump Price to find out what it was about Jesse that God used him so greatly. Thousands were saved under Jesse's ministry. Price would get exasperated with me and kept saying, "I don't know, God just used used him. Jesse was a fabulous teacher of the Bible. He taught his people Greek and they knew the Bible better than any other Christians we knew.

 

One evening, we had just had a big steak cook out in their mansion of a home and were just fellowshipping and was it rich. Once again as we talked about Jesse who was then in heaven, I asked Price, a very successful businessman, very well to do, What did Jesse do, what was the key to seeing God use him so much. Price, was almost fed up with me blurted out, "I don't know Wemp, all I know is that Jesse was madly in love with Jesus" and heaven came down in that room. We all sat there weeping for that was the key and we knew it. That was one of the greatest moments of all of my life.

 

Dear people, that is the key, the main key to being used of God, JUST STAY MADLY IN LOVE WITH JESUS. Do you love Jesus like that? Everyone who gets saved probably loved Him like that at first. Too many of us have left our first love" Rev 2. "Return and do the first works" and see that love restored. ABC Sumner