Last Monday evening I rang the doorbells of twenty of my closest neighbors.
Was I nervous? Yes, even though I’ve done things like this hundreds of times before.
So why did I do it? Three main reasons.
- I really believe Jesus is coming soon and I want my neighbors to have the best chance possible to be ready for that universe-shattering event.
- During a recent Week of Prayer here at the NPUC office I updated my special prayer list. I asked God to impress me with who I should invite to accept Him as Savior and Lord, embrace all Bible truths and unite with a vibrant Adventist group. The Lord impressed me to list the names of many of my neighbors, some by name and others by description (“big boat neighbors”, “loud neighbors”, “new neighbors”, “borrowed ladder from neighbors”, etc.). As I have prayed for the people on the list, God has put a growing urgency in my heart to somehow connect with them.
- I have recently been reading Christian Service and came across statements like this–
- “If there is one work more important than another, it is Read More…
The Bible says that there is a feast in heaven when a sinner repents. This year we will be celebrating a great feast from the 23rd -31st of October; a feast I like to refer to as a party for God. It’s a great celebration which will include music, prayers, gifts, exposure to God’s word but above all, we will witness the birth of hundreds of people who will give their lives to God. I invite you to begin to pray for 3 people who you wish to see in the kingdom of heaven. I ask that you not only pray, but also invite these people to study the Bible, to join a small group, and to participate in this special festival where you will see God working miracles through His word.
Last year several people in our congregation accepted the challenge put forth by the Folkenberg’s to reach out and “ShareHim”. There were about 10 of us who attended a ShareHim Rally in Walla Walla, WA. Later a young couple, Dan and Stacey Brown, went to the Boot Camp. When Dan shared that he wanted to be a part of preaching a series of meetings in our home church, I was thrilled.
week because his daughter was in a music group that performed that day. He told me that he works at the state penitentiary and confessed that he had been questioning his ministry with the prisoners there. He said that he had been wondering if what he was doing had any point, and he sounded as though he had been discouraged in his profession, possibly seeking to do something else.
On Sabbath October 17, 2009 I had the privilege of meeting with one of our newer church plants in the Washington Conference, the
“God will save every human that truly wants to be saved. But as far as we’re concerned, we need to operate under the assumption that every person is lost until he hears the gospel. And we can hasten the 2nd Coming, but there comes a point beyond which we cannot delay it.”
In 1903 Seventh-day Adventists were given this counsel.
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“This is the best, most spiritual book on dealing with church conflict I have ever read,” said John Freedman, 
Unless your church has some other major soul winning scheduled this fall, why not schedule a Week of Reaping the last full week of October? Just put it on the calendar and start asking God to show you and your church family (-ies) who is ripe to make decisions for Jesus and His church.
God is showing dreams to Lutherans, people from the Assemblies of God are asking for Bible studies on prophecy, lots of reaping meetings large and small have begun or are beginning soon, and a major field school of evangelism is taking place where half the population is Mormon. (