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VIEW FROM | The View* Expressed In This Article Are The Opinions Of The Writer. Fulfilling The Commission The Christian church needs to stop dead in its track, examine and re examine IU textbook, The Acts Of The Apostle and relate its ministries to the same Somebody aaid recent ly that ninety percent of what we do in the church have no biblical base. My prayer is that this is an erro neous statement;however, I believe that in aU too many instances, we are too tradition bound. If we would be a New Testament Church, we must know what the New Testament teaches. :.\ , . - My burden is that of getting tbs church to fulfill the commission emphatically laid down in Acts 1:8. “But ve shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both hi Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth." 'Thegreat missionary commission which appears in all four Goapab, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, it confirmed fas this text. M is the aim. the objective of the church. We are clearly called upon to fulfill this great commission by witnessing in four places: fsniraliiiii. Judea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth. Fulfilling the commission tai Jeru salem. Jerusalem represents home base symbolically. The first several years of my ministry at the Saint Paul Church was dedicated to a witness at home. We preached and taught Jesus Christ. We laid founda tions, organized internally, pur chased approximately twenty-three lots adjacent to the church house, held workshops, seminars, retthafs, purchased three new buses, taught stewardship, expanded the sanc tuary, purchased commercial kit chen equipment, expanded oqr staff to include a full-time Director of Christian Education, Youth Direct or, Administrative Assistant,Com puter Operator, Secretary, Custo dian and live part-time musicians, a janitor and dietician. I mention the above to emphasize the importance of getting the wit ness at home in proper order first. The ministries within the church must be designed to equip and prepare us for the outside mini stries. We must not tarry at Jerusa lem until we are property equipped. If a person is not a Christian at home, he-she has no witness. The most difficult place in the world to be a Christian is at home, with doors closed and looked, family inside. Anybody can he Christ-like for two hours on a Sunday miming Fulfilling the commission in Judea Judes is equivalent to our Immediate community The Chris tian church should spend some w miw, jy —■ time in studying and defining its community. In so doing, she can relate to the needs. Fortunately, Saint Paul is located in a community where problems are numerous. Our witness in our community is ever growing. We feed the needy a full course hot meal three times per week at the expense of the church. We, in addition to putting the church on computer, purchased twelve computers and opened a computer center for interested persons. We have an effective tutorial program for all School children in our com munity. We are in the process of starting our own school on the elementary level to deal with some basics that our children are missing Our 10:45 A.M. Worship is broad cast live each Sunday. We have no sponsor. We do this out of “God’s . pocket’’--treasure of the church, our services are toped and exchanged for three dollars Our witness in otr community is in the process of being expanded to include three and one half million dollars in building and renovating. i saw again, the ministries with the church must be designed to equip us to fulfill the commission in Judea our community. Fulfilling the commission in Samaria.Samaria represents the. other side of the track-places and people for whom we do not care and tied with. The Christian church must be called into question with respect to Samaria. Ism afraid that we have assumed a self-righteous pasture. We talk negatively, look down our noses and criticize those for whom we do not care. We are long on preaching, shputiig, singing, participating In our fraternities and sororities, but where is our witness in Samaria? We had rather talk about the ills of our society as opposed to doing something about 1 ■ Pricm Are Loumet EveriGttHM !t*?onah ““'<**<•*-•S9Vr Sofae Haring at-$399m PLUS UnbeBevable Sarin# On LAMPS-RECLLNERS— TABLES PICTURES THE SOFA SHOPPE! 4447 SOUTH BLVD. *52-7433 314* FREEDOM DRIVE 333-3479 .y i them. Lest we forget, the church house is a hospital and ■ hospital is a place for sick folks. Some of us are sicker than others, but all of us are sick some. AH have sinned and come short. We are in the process of organi zing the men of our church to take our witness into Samaria Fulfilling the commission in the uttermost parts of the earth. Our witness at Saint Paul is to give away ten percent of our income to Missions, Benevolence and Christ ian Education. We do this by supporting the objectives of the General Baptist State Convention, Progressive National Baptist Con vention and American Baptist Many of our members are involved with me in lending our witness to the uttermost parts of the earth. Conclusion It is so easy and simple to stay at Jerusalem. In one sense, it’s safe to stay at home. When you move out to Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth, you invite the vicious attack of the devil and all of his hellish lmpe-I know this full well. On the other hand, its darker ous to tarry at Jerusalem too long. In so doing, we invite the displeasure of God upon us. As Dr.Clark says, “I don’t know how you feel about it, but I had rather go and do battle with the devil than to invoke the pleasure of the Almighty”. If we would fulfill this commis sion, we must first receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. When we receive Him, we will go as commanded and great will be our witness. 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