WEEKLY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Wednesday Evening Bible Classes Schedule

September 30th — Troy Futrell

October 7th — Kynn Maxwell

October 14th — Joe Winnett

Come and assemble with your brethren on Wednesday night for a spiritual uplift! Speakers will bring devotional messages followed by congregational singing.

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

Evangelism and Edify

We always need to be mindful of our need as God’s people to help evangelize the lost and to edify them and our fellow Christians. Always be aware of our support of the Holy Spirit and pray for our dedication to evangelism and edification.  For the elders, Ken D

Do We Evangelize and Edify?

“But Peter and John answered them, „Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard‟” (Acts 4:19-20).

On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured out on those gathered all together in one place and then was promised to all believers who would repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins.

Emboldened by God’s presence dwelling within them, they chose to go forth as Jesus had commanded and make disciples of all nations. The Holy Spirit did not take them over and make them do anything. That’s not how God works. It’s not recorded that any of them snapped out of a hypnotic-like state to discover that they had been preaching the gospel.

Just days before Pentecost, when the resurrected Christ ascended into heaven, His bewildered followers must have been terrified to receive the orders to evangelize and edify, but what a change after the Spirit-filled church was established!

Since God’s Spirit that emboldened them is also given to us, why do we act as if we do not have it? Since we have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, do we evangelize and edify?

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