Outreach Preparation

Hope that everybody is having a wonderful Friday! We had a great meeting on Wednesday, and spent the time digging pretty deep into some truths presented in God's Word.

Summary of Wednesday's lesson:
We learned that the background on which the gospel message rests is that of God's Holy, Righteous, and Just character. We also discussed that it is against this background that the gospel most beautifully shines. Armed with a thorough knowledge of our utter depravity and sinfulness before God, we can gain a much greater appreciation and love for God's work of salvation through Jesus' death on the cross. We also talked about the necessity we have to call sinners to both repentance and faith, as both are necessary for salvation. We noted that John the Baptist, Paul, Peter, and Jesus himself all preached repentance, and Jesus even warned that unless sinners repented they would perish Luke 13:3,5. As the Westminster Confession of faith states: "Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free grace in Christ; yet it is of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it." We also learned the repentance is a gift from God (2 Timothy 2:24-26) and as such we should not base our evangelism on convincing people, winning intellectual battles, or philosophical methodologies; but our evangelism should be based instead on passionate prayer and faithful preaching of the gospel. Touching on this last point we ended in Romans 10:13-17, and learned that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. That people may not call on whom they have not heard, and that they will not hear unless somebody preaches to them. We stressed again that our evangelism should be primarily comprised of faithfully preaching the Word of God in its entirety. We must include sin, righteousness, and repentance as well as grace, love, and faith.

Upcoming events:
Also we have several events coming up soon. Tomorrow, Saturday September 6th we are meeting at the JCSU at 1:00 PM to make our banner and prepare for the September 11th outreach. Please meet us there if you would like to help. Monday at 7:30 AM we are also meeting for prayer for the campus ministries and the lost. We will meet in the prayer room at the 46 West 10th street house. As we learned in our study we MUST be in passionate prayer for the lost, and God will answer those prayers! We have our next meeting on Wednesday of next week from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM in the JCSU room #324 so please come join us for studies in biblical evangelism. Finally our next outreach is going to be on next Thursday, so please come join us as we pray for the nation and for others. God Bless everyone and I hope to hear from you all soon!