by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Witness
The Great Commission has five versions. The most pregnant and the most neglected is John 20:19-23. The essence of Christ’s message is verse 21, ‘I send you.’ Jesus possesses universal authority to send all his disciples into the world. The nature of the mission is,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Before The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren held conferences on The Purpose Driven Church, one of which I attended in Houston. There is often confusion about our mission. What are we about – our purpose? What is our message? When I arrived at the Chapel in 2000 I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 13, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
This message was given by Corrie ten Boom at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. In the Bible we read in Colossians 1:11, ‘As you live this new life with Jesus Christ, we pray that you will be strengthened...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 22, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Witness
“At the time of Jesus’ birth, there was a deep longing for salvation throughout the length and breadth of the ancient world. The politician, the thinker, the man of religion, the man in the street, and supremely the Jew, all alike were looking for salvation.” (Michael...
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