Be a part of evangelistic history!
August 11th, 2009 Posted in Harvest Crusades, OC, Pastor's cornerIt’s only two days until the Southern California Harvest! Can you believe it?
This is going to be a very special event in that we are celebrating 20 years of evangelistic ministry here in Southern California. The Southern California Harvest has not only become a part of summer here in the Southland, but it may also be the longest-running consecutive evangelistic outreach event in history.
I hope you are all planning on coming and, most importantly, bringing someone with you that does not yet know the Lord.
We have found that 85% of those who come forward at the invitation to follow Christ were brought by a friend. Someone like you.
Remember, God reaches people through people.
But I don’t live in Southern California!
No problem there. The Southern California Harvest will be webcast live in HD in real time. Even if you miss it, an archived webcast will be available soon after the event.
Our web audience now is larger than the in-person attendance, which often numbers around 100,000 for the weekend.
So you ought to invite a friend to watch it on your computer with you. Or send them a link.
Because we care
We need to all pray that God gives us a burden for people who do not yet know the Lord.
Sometimes Christians regard nonbelievers as the “enemy” that they must isolate themselves from. The truth is that the devil is the enemy and people who do not yet know Christ are his captives.
Paul reminds us that “God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands” (2 Timothy 2:24-26 THE MESSAGE).
They are, as Jesus said, “sheep without a shepherd” that need to be reached. The goal is not isolation but infiltration.
I pray that God will give you a heart and burden for people who need Jesus today. As the great evangelist D.L. Moody said, “Winners of souls must first be weepers of souls,”
