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COMMITMENTThirst07 Nov 2010 DCFC English Worship – [Satisfying Life’s Desires] Ps 84 Satisfying Soul Heart of a Great Pastor P220: I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit power. The dye has been cast. I’ve stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of His. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense and my future secure. I am finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tame vision, mundane talking, chincy giving and dwarfed goals. I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I don’t have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded. I now live by presence, lean by faith, love by patience, lift by prayer and labor by power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I won’t give up, shut up, let up or burn up till I’ve preached up, prayed up, paid up, stored up and stayed up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give till I drop and preach till everyone knows. And when He comes to get His own, He’ll have no problems recognizing me… my colors are clear. COMMITMENT James Hewitt - Illustrations Unlimited07 Mar 2010 DCFC English Worship – [Building a Community in Christ] Eph 3:1-13 What is the Church called to do?
2-4 Apr 2010 ACBC Revival Meeting (Mandarin) – [Growing in Love, Building the Church] Eph 3:1-13 The Calling of the Church THE CHURCH WITHOUT COMMITMENT Emerson Colaw tells about doing some work with his church’s nonresident membership list. He wrote a letter to one family that had been very active in his church. A letter came back saying, “Mr. Colaw, we now live near a university campus and we go every Sunday to the chapel service there. They have unusually fine music… they have nationally known preachers ever Sunday morning.” And she added a note he didn’t think necessary. “We had not heard such preaching as that before. The children are being taught in church school by seminary students.” And then she ended, “But the best of all there is no membership, no pledging, and no women’s society asking me to work. So if you don’t mind, we’ll just leave our membership at Hyde Park and continue to enjoy what we have here.” No involvement, no bother. No crosses.
Date: 11/2007.101 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching From Leadership Journal: Ed. Craig Brian Larson #8 Robert Chesebrough believed in his product. he's the fellow who invented Vaseline, a petroleum jelly refined from rod wax, the ooze that forms on shaft of oil rigs. He so believed in the healing properties of his product that he became his own guinea pig. he burned himself with acid and flame; he cut and scratched himself so often and so deeply that he bore the scar of his tests the rest of his life. But he proved his product worked. People had only to look at his wounds, now healed to see the value of his work and the extent of belief. COMMITMENT Jumping without ParachutesDate: 11/2007.101 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching From Leadership Journal: Ed. Craig Brian Larson #30 Tim Bowden, in his book One Crowded Hour about cameraman Neil Davis, tells about an incident that happened in Borneo during the confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia in 1964. A group of Gurkhas from Nepal were asked if they would be willing to jump from transport planes into combat against the Indonesians if the need arose. The Gurkhas had the right to turn down the request because they had never been trained as paratroopers. Bowden quotes Davis's account of the story: Now the Gurkhas usually agreed to anything but on this occasion they provisionally rejected the plan. But the next day one of their NCOs sought out the British officer who made the request and said they had discussed the matter further and would be prepared to jump under certain conditions. "What are they?" asked the British Officer. The Gurkas told him they would jump if the land was marshy and reasonably soft with no rocky outcrops because they were inexperienced in falling. The British officer considered this and said that the dropping area would almost certainly be over jungle and there would not be rocky outcrops so that seemed all right. Was there anything else? "Yes," said the Gurkhas. They wanted the plane to fly as slowly as possible and no more than 100 hundred feet high. The British Officer pointed out the planes always did fly as slowly as possible when dropping troops but to jump from 100 feet was impossible because the parachutes would not open in time from that height. "Oh," said the Gurkhas, "that's all right then. We'll jump with parachutes anywhere. You didn't mention parachutes before!" Any church could use such Gurkhas-like commitment and courage. COMMITMENT TelemachusDate: 11/2007.101 Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching From Leadership Journal: Ed. Craig Brian Larson #37 Charles Colson in Loving God, tells the story of Telemachus, a fourth century Christian. He lived in a remote village tending his garden and spending much time in prayer. One day he thought he heard the voice of God telling him to go to Rome, so he obeyed, setting out on foot. Weary weeks later, he arrived in the city at the time of a great festival. The little monk followed the crowd surging down the streets into the Coliseum. he saw the gladiators stand before the emperor and say, "We who are going to fight to death salute you." Then he realized these men were going to fight to the death for the entertainment of the crowd. He cried out, "In the name of Christ stop!" As the games began, he pushed his way through the crowd, climbed over the wall and dropped to the floor of the arena. When the crowd saw this tiny figure rushing to the gladiators and saying, "In the name of Christ, stop!" they thought it was part of the show and began to laugh. When they realized it wasn't, the laughter turned to anger. As he was pleading with the gladiators to stop, one of them plunged a sword into his body. he fell to the sand. As he was dying, his last words were, "in the name of Christ, stop!" Then a strange thing happened. The gladiators stood looking at the tiny figure lying there. A hush fell over the Coliseum. Way up in the upper rows, a man stood and made his way to the exit. Other began to follow. In dead silence, everyone left the Coliseum. The year was 391 BC and that was the last battle to the death between gladiators in the Roman Coliseum. Never again in the great stadium did men kill each other for the entertainment of the crowd all because of one tiny voice that could hardly be heard above the tumult. One voice - one life- that spoke the truth in God's name. Directory: cfs-filesystemfile.ashx -> key -> CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments -> General editors john baillie key -> Eternity! 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