Revolution
"Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up."
-Catherine Booth "Mother of The Salvation Army"
Are we waking them up?
I'm afraid that sometimes the opposite might be happening. I believe that we are getting so caught up in the busyness of the work-that we are causing people to sleep. This is my opinion, but I know personally that I am not doing all that I should to reach the people of this world.
We need to do whatever we can to reach the sleeping and WAKE them up!!
We need to wake up to better and more persistent ways to wake them up!!!
This work is hard and busy but there is much more than everything we think it is. We need to get out of the office and be progressive in reaching people for His sake.
We need to lead a revolution. Get our people to think outside the church. There are people sleeping on our doorsteps and yet we open the door and walk by them. Wake them up and show them Jesus. There are people sleeping in the houses next to our corps, go to their house and wake them up! There are people coming into our corps sleeping, shake them and wake them, let them know about Jesus.
There are people all around us and we need to wake them up to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We need a revival in The Salvation Army. Pray for a revival of the Holy Spirt upon this church.
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."
-William Booth "Founder of The Salvation Army"
-Catherine Booth "Mother of The Salvation Army"
Are we waking them up?
I'm afraid that sometimes the opposite might be happening. I believe that we are getting so caught up in the busyness of the work-that we are causing people to sleep. This is my opinion, but I know personally that I am not doing all that I should to reach the people of this world.
We need to do whatever we can to reach the sleeping and WAKE them up!!
We need to wake up to better and more persistent ways to wake them up!!!
This work is hard and busy but there is much more than everything we think it is. We need to get out of the office and be progressive in reaching people for His sake.
We need to lead a revolution. Get our people to think outside the church. There are people sleeping on our doorsteps and yet we open the door and walk by them. Wake them up and show them Jesus. There are people sleeping in the houses next to our corps, go to their house and wake them up! There are people coming into our corps sleeping, shake them and wake them, let them know about Jesus.
There are people all around us and we need to wake them up to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We need a revival in The Salvation Army. Pray for a revival of the Holy Spirt upon this church.
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."
-William Booth "Founder of The Salvation Army"
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