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Excerpt from "Follow Me", Christmas Program & Dinner, Giving to Typhoon Victims (Pastoral Emphasis for 12/8)

Today's reading from the Chronological Reading Plan: Romans 4-7

As a church family, we are currently reading David Platt's book "Follow Me". Purchase your copy today and read along with us.  Here's a great excerpt from the beginning of the book...
“Just ask Jesus into your heart. Simply invite Christ into your life. Repeat this prayer after me, and you will be saved.  Should it alarm us that the Bible never mentions such a prayer?  Should it concern us that nowhere in Scripture is anyone ever told to "ask Jesus into their heart" or to "invite Christ into their life"?  Yet this is exactly what multitudes of professing Christians have been encouraged to do, and they've been assured that as long as they said certain words, recited a particular prayer, raised their hand, checked a box, signed a card, or walked an aisle, they are Christians and their salvation is eternally secure.  It's not true.  With good intentions and sincere desires to reach as many people as possible for Jesus, we have subtly and deceptively minimized the magnitude of what it means to follow him.  We've replaced challenging words from Christ with trite phrases in the church.  We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic.  Multitudes of men and women at this moment think that they are saved from their sins when they are not.  Scores of people around the world culturally think that they are Christians when biblically they are not."

Everyone is invited to come out to our Christmas Program on Saturday, December 14th, at 4:00pm. Afterwards, dinner will be served. To help us prepare for the dinner, please sign up online. And bring your favorite, homemade desserts to share with other! 

Today, our love offering will be donated to World Vision to help those in the Philippines who were affected by the typhoon. Over 5,000 people have died along with devastating destruction. Thank you for your generous giving.

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