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LIFESTYLES/ The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 22, 1997
The Prophet’s Column
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Charlotte, NC 28216
Repeat of Newsletter - 1995
Part 1
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the kingdom of the Lord Jesus
Christ and having been forgiven
of all my sins. If I did not know
Christ this morning, I’d go under.
How is it between you and the
Lord? Can you say you have been
translated from the power of
darkness into the kingdom of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and that you
have been forgiven of all you
sins? If not, don’t rest until you
can say that will all assurance.
Very few souls on this earth who
know what it means to be in
darkness, and then know what it
means to walk with Christ as He
leads you day by day, moment by
moment. Few can say they truly
“WHO HATH DELIVERED
US FROM THE POWER OF
DARKNESS, AND HATH
TRANSLATED US INTO THE
KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR
SON: IN WHOM WE HAVE
REDEMPTION THROUGH
HIS BLOOD, EVEN THE FOR
GIVENESS OF SINS:” This is
my standing before God in
Christ, having been translated
from the power of darkness into
know Christ. Many have a
“head” knowledge of Christ, and
it ends there because there has
never come the brooding and
awakening work of the Holy
Spirit in that soul, according to
John 16:7-11. Apart from Holy
Spirit conviction, you don’t even
know yourself and that you need
Christ. Most of our Bible teach
ers, deacons, preachers and
evangelist, etc., etc., have gone
through the Bible schools and
have never been awakened to
their lost condition, according to
Ephesians 2:1, therefore, these
unawakened leaders do not
know, have never dreamed of,
and cannot warn a sinner of the
judgment of a sin-avenging God.
They cannot warn you of the
wrath of God and that a death
sentence is hanging over you at
this very moment. They cannot
warn you because they have
never seen, experimentally, these
truths. One of the first things an
awakened sinner sees when he is
awakened is the judgment and
anger of God. If you have never
seen the judgment you are
under, you are not saved. I don’t
care how much you profess to be
saved, your denial of the wrath
and judgment of God is evidence
that you are lost.
Parker honored by Promise Keepers
Continued from 11A
Keepers ministries was to
honor local ministers who have
made a difference.
Parker has ordained 15 minis
ters during his almost 50 year
ministry.
White, whose off-field interests
include Christian recordings and
film companies, is an associate
minister at Knoxville, Tenn.’s
Inner City Church, which was
destroyed by fire last January.
He also plugged Urban Hope,
an ecumenical ministry founded
by Wliite and his wife, Sara.
Urban Hope develops irmer city
ministries and provides leader
ship development training.
\^te has worked with at-risk
youth in inner cities for the last
11 years.
“Our goal is to invest money
into business, into creating edu
cational components to give peo
ple a chance to create economic
opportunity for themselves,”
l^ite said. “Our focus is the
inner city and rural areas.”
White hopes to expand the pro
gram to Charlotte in the near
future. Thursday’s program was
just the beginning.
“You have to build a trust fac
tor,” White said in an interview
after his speech. ‘Tve found the
way you build a trust factor is you
have to be real with people. They
have to see that you’re real. They
can’t just hear you talking and
preaching that you need Jesus.
You also have to go in and spend
money in their conununity. And
you have to find a way for the
money to recycle in their commu
nities.”
White has developed an inner
city loan program that works
with people and businesses who
are traditionally unable to get
bank loans.
The inner city ministry has
given White and his wife a new
perspective. Both were surprised
hy what they found.
“They are a lot of people hurting
that need help,” ’White said. “It
wasn’t a bunch of gang bangers.
Even the gang bangers wanted
help...I had been out of that loop
for a time. I went to college, I
lived on campus for a while and
then I played football. We didn’t
have a lot of shootings and things
Parker
when I was growing up. But
that’s all that I
saw on TV -
that boys in the
hood mentality.
That’s what I
thought was
going on. But
there are more
people looking
for a helping
hand than are
not.
“These gang
members and drug dealers are
very intelligent. They stay up all
night to run a business. If you put
them in a situation to run a real
business, they could probably
make that corporation a great
corporation.”
Sara White said more surpris
ing than the mentality of inner
city inhabitants was the reaction
of the people who once supported
them after they began the pro
gram.
“What surprised me is that peo
ple didn’t want to partner with us
anymore when we went to the
communities that weren’t bring
ing in money,” Sara White said.
“V^ereas people want to partner
with us in the suburbs. When you
want to go to the inner city and
give them a chance they didn’t
want to support us. We ended up
going in on our own.”
Reggie White said he has had
difficulty finding banks to back
his inner city loan program,
despite the fact the default rate
on the loans is far below that of
standard programs.
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