This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[e] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
In one part of the country Children's ministry curriculum "DOVE" could not be introduced because of floods, other side has severe drought!!!
Please pray for volunteers who are involved in preparing a new generation of children's ministry workers.
#DOVE #BTJ #Children #Salvation
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:
@Rymiller843 Please share update on your sister in law and new born, thanks.
#Free PDF #Apologetics’ #Dissertation: Philosophy of #History, Historical #Jesus Studies, and Miracles: Three Roadblocks to #Resurrection Research
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British Parliament Forms July 4 Commission To Investigate Colonial Insurrection
Happy 4th of July fellow Americans, Marines, Military Veterans and in Duty, Patriots and lovers of freedom! #4th #independence #freedom #july4th
From BTJ to BTJ and the whole world beyond.
https://collinsgw.wordpress.com/2022/07/04/a-heart-felt-prayer/
The paradox when following Christ.
"I thought if I could drift away
From the deepest pain in me
I could just swim somehow
But Your love's pulling me down, pulling me down, pulling me down
Now I'm in a valley, looking up
You have never felt so close
Canyons all around me, stars above
Meet me in the depths below
Where the lost is found
Where the broken is crowned
Where souls rise up from the ground
You got me in the valley looking up
Where the misfits, they fit in
Where death brings life again
Where the lonely won't be alone
Where the orphans have a home
Where I don't have to be
Anything but what You made me
Where repentance is glorious
Our scars tell the stories
Of a current of love that's surrounding."
https://youtu.be/liVIdsxrIyk
#MemoryMonday: 2 years ago this day we posted "Starter Questions for #Evangelism"
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This field report directly from our team in Afghanistan is such a powerful reminder of what God can do during the most unimaginable situations.
https://backtojerusalem.com/rare-field-report-directly-from-afghanistan/
#Afghanistan #BTJdisasterrelief
Control and manipulation of others is witchcraft. Control and manipulation to make people obey you, in God's name, is not from the Spirit. Quite the opposite. Trust the Lord is doing his work in others, and pray God's will be done in their lives - not your will. Every single person can be lead by the Spirit and have direct access to the father without any mediator, according to the NT. Jesus is our high priest and mediator. He was the end of the OT temple worship, by being The high priest, The temple, and The perfect Lamb that was sacrificed. No human beings, buildings, entity or deeds, can replace that. We either choose Jesus, or Christian (or other) religion. But the NT says that we are under the curse if we trust our own righteousness instead of Jesus'. No human being is perfect, except from the second Adam, the son of God. The only perfect man.