What Went Down...

Okay, so nothing special "went down."  We had 2 good, full days of soul-winning and visitation on Thursday and Saturday.  Friday we visited some family and ran errands, then had a good time around the Word of God with a family from church, in one of their twice a week Bible studies.

Sunday was a good day as well.  We prayed for 30 and had 32, which we haven't had for a couple weeks. Sunday evening the attendance was down, but we still had 5 families.

Today is our family catch up day!  I also have a few errands to run.  I need to make a "pastoral visit" to someone as well, and I need to talk to a young man about getting saved.  His name is Victor, a drug addict without hope, without Christ.

Tomorrow we're taking some breakfast foods to a public food distribution center for poor children--they feed about a dozen kids in the morning who don't have food in their own house, then around 50 in the afternoon for lunch.  Our plan is to bring breakfast once a week and have Bible time with the children.  We still have to get permission--but we're going to show up tomorrow and expect results.  We talked with the supervisor on Saturday, but she said she would have to get permission from her boss...so we'll get permission from our "Boss" and let Him work it all out.

Other than that, we have a few Bible studies to conduct through-out the week, Church on Wednesday, and evangelism on Thursday and Saturday.

Lots of work!  Please pray with us for all of these matters!

"...habiendo huido de la corrupción que está en el mundo..."

This is a great quote from 2 Peter 1:4, albeit in Spanish.  In English, our Bible reads "...having escaped the corruption that is in the world..."  To directly, word by word translate the Spanish back into English, it would say "having run for your life from the corruption that is in the world."  Striking, isn't it?

The problem is we aren't running for our life (a great picture of escaping, no?) from the corruption of the world--we running back to the world like our lives depend on it's corruption from lust.  How sad!

The Word of God is so specific.  I love it.  I preached a  message last night called "Christians with Good Vision" out of 2 Peter 1:1-10.  I mentioned far and near sighted folks, folks with blurry vision, the cross-eyed, the blind and the blind in one eye.  I applied the truth of the Word of God that if we don't have all the spiritual traits mentioned in the passage, we're blind, we can't see very far off, and that if that is the case we need to examine our salvation.

We had such a good time in the Word of God.  The people responded well and God blessed the meeting.  What a GOOD God we serve!