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What's Wrong with This Picture?

Beloved:

In these days of PHOTO MANIA brought on by the DIGITAL CAMERA/PHONE CAMERA craze, PICTURE TAKING is on the FRONT BURNER in American Life. That being said, we must remind ourselves there are OTHER ways to take PICTURES. One of those OTHER ways is what is called WORD PICTURES (i.e., Painting Pictures with Words).

So…Let’s look at a few WORD PICTURES, and in doing so ask ourselves the question: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES?

1. Our GOVERNMENT is spending BILLIONS of dollars and putting our Young Women and Young Men in HARMS WAY all in the name of giving Foreign Countries opportunity for FREEDOM/LIBERTY, while at the same time the GOVERNMENT is taking away our FREEDOMS/LIBERTIES here on the Home Front.

2. “The old way of preaching/teaching and expecting people to go out and apply it to their lives is so ARCHAIC and so not in touch with how people really live.” This quote is by CHANGE AGENT Reggie McNeal in Let'sWorship Magazine (Vol. 13 No.3, Winter 2009-10, Page 8). This quarterly Magazine is published by LifeWay Christian Resources of the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. Please, please read in I Corinthians 1:17-31 (KJV) what the Apostle Paul has to say concerning PREACHING (note especially v.21)!

3. “A worship focus on LENT may be totally NEW to your Congregation. Some in your congregation may remember LENT as a yearly ritual. It may be BEST for your congregation NOT TO USE the word LENT. Simply focus on the themes of Lent (Ash Wednesday, etc.) and preparation for Easter” (Page 59 in the Worship Magazine mentioned above).

Dear one, do we need CHANGE AGENTS, CHRISTIAN (Church) COACHES and CULTURAL ENGAGERS for our churches? Or do we DESPERATELY NEED…GOD-ANOINTED BIBLICAL PREACHING in the PULPITS OF THIS NATION? Wake us up, Lord Jesus, before we fall off the cliff!

Thank YOU for YOUR FAITHFULNESS to this REVIVAL MINISTRY. I love YOU dearly in our Blessed Lord Jesus.

Now a word from HIS WORD: “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine”--II Timothy 4:2 (KJV).