Rants, thoughts, observations, and updates from Pastor Lee Cadenhead.
Our latest Outreach project is this billboard that has just recently gone up at the corner of Hwy 29 and Ridge Road. We used (by permission) a screenshot from Jack Chick’s “Light of the World” Video and I think it turned out nicely. Hopefully it will cause some passers by to consider the fact that “Christ died for us”.
It seems that evangelism in the church age has gone through three stages. That pattern, which is so very common in scripture, can be described by the different stages of a harvest. The first phase is the firstfuits. This might account for the first 1500 years or so of church history. The second phase is the harvest. This might take in the Reformation right on through the sweeping revivals in England and America, and on in to the modern missionary movement. The third and final phase is the gleanings. This is the phase we’re in now. The sweeping revivals are over. The weeks long city-wide campaigns where hundreds and sometimes thousands of adult souls are converted are a thing of the past. This is not to be lamented. This is nature. But we should be reminded that the gleanings are worth going in to the field for. A Savior that commands that the fragments be gathered “that nothing be lost” (John 6:12), is not the sort of Savior that lays out during the gleaning season. As for me, I’m just thankful to be in the field to be a part of it. We had two men saved tonight at the jail. Two grown men, with tears in their eyes, that stood to their feet in the presence of their peers, and asked Jesus Christ to save them. Nobody got saved last week. But it sure was worth going back!
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isa 1:9)
It’s Friday night. Favorite weekend TV shows will be airing, there will be videos to rent, dates to keep, restraunts to visit, friends to company with, and ball games to cheer at. After all, it’s been a long week, and we’ve worked hard for five days this is the only (or one of the only) nights we can do something just for ourselves. Don’t get me wrong. Spending time with your family (not your television) would be a night well spent. There are a hundred healthy unindulging activities that any of us could engage in on a Friday night, so don’t take this post as a rebuke if you went to a ball game, or a restraunt, or watched a television program. But I would like to say thank you for the “very small remnant” that made it out to W.S. Neal HS stadium at 5:30 PM this evening for the selfless exercise of distributing gospel literature to game-goers out of concern for the souls of men. There was plenty you could have been doing, but you sacrificed a couple of hours of your precious weekend to honor the Lord Jesus Christ by publishing the gospel. Gwynne, Betty, Mike, Louis, Kelly, Taylor, and Adrianna, truly your reward is in heaven.
