Sunday, September 21, 2008
After a fabulous weekend, I hope you are all geared up for an awesome week, and are ready to work for the Lord! Tomorrow, Monday 22 we are having our prayer meeting in the morning. We will start at 8:00 AM in the prayer room at 10th street. Please come pray with us, it will build you up and prepare you for the week! Also, we are having another outreach this Wednesday. It will be from around 11:00 AM till around 2:00 PM, and we will be all over the campus. Please get in contact with me if you have any questions, and would like to reach out to the lost! Finally, we are having our weekly meeting on Wednesday night from 9 - 11 PM in JCSU room #324. Hope to see you all soon, and may God bless and keep you throughout the week.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Hey everybody!
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a blessed week and are enjoying the weekend thus far. I just wanted to send out an update and let everybody know that last week's meeting and outreach both went extremely well. At the meeting, we discussed many things, among them; cultivating a compassion for the lost, understanding the need to verbally communicate the gospel message, and understanding the need to communicate the sinner's total depravity to them before giving the good news. Also, our outreach went very well. We talked with many people and prayed for many situations, please pray for everyone we spoke with.
This next week we look forward to our prayer on Monday morning as well as our fellowship meeting on Wednesday night. Monday mornings we are meeting in the prayer room at the tenth street house at 8:00 AM to pray for the campus, ministries, and each other. Last weeks meeting was extremely encouraging and beneficial, so please make it if you can, it's worth the early rise! Also, we will meet for our weekly fellowship meeting on Wednesday night 9 - 11 PM in the JCSU room #324. We will be continuing our evangelism video lessons, so please come and invite friends if you'd like! Well, have a great rest of the weekend and I hope to hear from you all soon!
This next week we look forward to our prayer on Monday morning as well as our fellowship meeting on Wednesday night. Monday mornings we are meeting in the prayer room at the tenth street house at 8:00 AM to pray for the campus, ministries, and each other. Last weeks meeting was extremely encouraging and beneficial, so please make it if you can, it's worth the early rise! Also, we will meet for our weekly fellowship meeting on Wednesday night 9 - 11 PM in the JCSU room #324. We will be continuing our evangelism video lessons, so please come and invite friends if you'd like! Well, have a great rest of the weekend and I hope to hear from you all soon!
Friday, September 5, 2008
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!
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!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Meeting
Hey all! Last Friday's meeting was amazing, and we had a good turnout. We discussed a weekly meeting time, brainstormed outreach ideas, and had some good fellowship time. I hope that everybody enjoyed themselves and I'm glad you all have shown excitement for this semester. This e-mail is to remind everyone that our meeting time is going to be tomorrow night Wednesday from 9-11 PM. The meeting will be in the JCSU room #324. I look forward to seeing everyone there, and everyone please bring your Bible's and eager minds ready to learn some evangelism! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me via e-mail or phone. Hope to see you all there, and feel free to invite anyone that you think would be interested! God Bless.
Hebrews 4:14-16
Hebrews 4:14-16
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Meeting Place and time
Hope everybody's classes are going well this week. I want to thank all of you who responded in a timely manner to the last update, I really appreciate it. Officially we are having the meeting this Friday, August 29 at 7:00 pm. After receiving the input from everyone it seemed that 7:00 would work best. We will meet in the JCSU room #420 which is the corner board room. Please everyone again bring your schedules, some money if you want food, and your thinking caps! Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to seeing you all there. Please let me know if you cannot attend. God Bless and see you all in a couple of days!
Monday, August 25, 2008
First meeting of Fall 2008
Hey everybody! I hope you all had a good move in and are ready for the new semester. Hopefully classes are going well so far for everybody and nobody is quite overwhelmed yet. This update is to let you all know that our first meeting is going to be this Friday night at 7:00 or 8:00 pm. The location will most likely be somewhere at the JCSU, but this may change depending on hours for the food places. I hope that everyone can attend, and please bring your schedules so we can start planning our weekly fellowship meetings as well as outreaches. Please bring some money for food and refreshments as well. Also please everyone bring a mind that is ready to Brainstorm! We are going to be discussing a lot of different ideas for outreaches and the upcoming semester.
Your job is to let me know what time would be best for you: 7:00 or 8:00 in an e-mail. Also please let me know if you cannot attend, so we can figure out about how many people to expect. I will send you all an update with the final time and place a little later in the week. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments whatsoever. For now, God Bless and good luck with the first week of classes!
1 Peter 1:13-16
Your job is to let me know what time would be best for you: 7:00 or 8:00 in an e-mail. Also please let me know if you cannot attend, so we can figure out about how many people to expect. I will send you all an update with the final time and place a little later in the week. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments whatsoever. For now, God Bless and good luck with the first week of classes!
1 Peter 1:13-16
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Gearing Up for Fall 2008
Hey everybody! I hope that everybody's summer has gone well. I personally can't wait to get back to Reno, and hear how God has been shaping you all through mission trips and everything else. Well, the beginning of the new semester is just a couple weeks away, and we are beginning to prepare for CCN's first full semester on the UNR campus! It's very exciting, and I hope that all of you are excited as well.
Due to the fact that we are a newer campus organization and the record number of new students coming in this semester, the first couple of weeks are going to be pretty heavy on promoting CCN on campus. Hopefully we will be able to set up tables during the first couple of weeks, and promote during the club rush times. We'll get the details ironed out, but I am definitely going to need help promoting, running tables etc. so any volunteers would be much appreciated. That said, I know that God will lead us in an edifying and God glorifying semester as long as we keep our sights focused on him!
Also, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ and at Repent and Witness Evangelism Camp in New York as I type this. If you could pray for them, and that God would bless their endeavors that would be great! Also if you would like to pray for CCN on the UNR campus please do so! We know that we cannot do anything apart from God's grace, mercy, and blessing on our lives, so your prayers are much appreciated!
Finally, please e-mail me if you have any outreach ideas, would like to volunteer at all, prayer requests, or would just like to catch me up on how God has been working this summer! I look forward to a semester of serving both you and Christ, God Bless!
Due to the fact that we are a newer campus organization and the record number of new students coming in this semester, the first couple of weeks are going to be pretty heavy on promoting CCN on campus. Hopefully we will be able to set up tables during the first couple of weeks, and promote during the club rush times. We'll get the details ironed out, but I am definitely going to need help promoting, running tables etc. so any volunteers would be much appreciated. That said, I know that God will lead us in an edifying and God glorifying semester as long as we keep our sights focused on him!
Also, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ and at Repent and Witness Evangelism Camp in New York as I type this. If you could pray for them, and that God would bless their endeavors that would be great! Also if you would like to pray for CCN on the UNR campus please do so! We know that we cannot do anything apart from God's grace, mercy, and blessing on our lives, so your prayers are much appreciated!
Finally, please e-mail me if you have any outreach ideas, would like to volunteer at all, prayer requests, or would just like to catch me up on how God has been working this summer! I look forward to a semester of serving both you and Christ, God Bless!
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