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RELIGION/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 15, 1997
The Prophet’s Column
This Is a paid advertisement by J. M. Little
My Dear Friends
THE PROPHETS COLUMN
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NEWSLETTER- MAY 1996
By the time this newsletter
reaches you we will have fimer-
alized several relatives of ours.
It is true that we never get used
to death. But let me tell you
something, my friends, all of us,
not some of us, are going out into
eternity. Have you ever consid
ered the fact that one day you,
too, are going out into eternity?
Most of you never have. “And as
it is appointed unto men once to
die, but a~er this the judgment.”
(Heb. 9:27). This means that
YOU, my friend, will one day
meet my Lord. It is far better
that you meet my Lord here, be
broken at His feet and come to
know Him as your Lord and
your Saviour. If you go out into
eternity without Christ, you will
have to stand before Him as
your Judge (Lev. 20:11-12) and
there will be no mercy for you
there at the Great White Throne
Judgment. Praise the Lord He
gave me grace to see my lost
condition as a guilty sinner here
in time (Luke 19:10, John 16:7-
11, and Isaiah 55:11) and
redeemed me with His own pre
cious blood (Ephesians 1:7). It
has been over 25 years since
God saved me. I haven't gotten
over it, I can't get over it, and I
don't want to get over it. I, the
chief of sinners, and God saving
a hell-deserving sinner like me.
It is the marvel and mystery of
my life. Why my heavenly
Pather chose to save me and
pass others by I don't know. But
I thank Him that He saved me.
Let me ask you a question, my
friends; “do you know Christ?”
Not do you belong to the church,
but DO YOU KNOW CHRIST?
Do you? I'm going to leave you
vrith that one eternal question;
DO YOU KNOW CHRIST?
Your Gospel Editor and
Teacher,
J.M. Little
Churches
using internet
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poorer churches?”
It could lead to a techno
logical dark age, where only
the computer elite, like
medieval priests, can access
God’s word.
“They will get all of the
information and education,
and weR have a technology
underclass who will be left
The deadline for
church news is 5
p.m. Mondays.
Photos will be
returned only if
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envelope.
Christians demanding recognition of faith
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S.C. - With
one county council already
approving of the posting of the
Ten Commandments, and
another considering the idea,
some people are asking why
the pious push?
“What I perceive is a rebel
lion among at least some fac
tion of Christians against
what they perceive to be a
diminution of official recogni
tion of their faith,” said Steve
Bates, executive director of
the South Carolina chapter of
the American Civil Liberties
Union.
One answer may lie in
Alabama, where a judge has
drawn national attention by
refusing to take a plaque of
the commandments off his
courtroom wall.
A recent resolution passed
by Dorchester County Council
and a second one going before
Charleston County Council
next week both came from
local Christians who were
inspired by Judge Roy Moore's
defiant stand. The
(Charleston) Post and Courier
reported.
“It became sort of a cause
celebre because of the case
down in Alabama, but there
have been numerous similar
cases over the last 30 to 50
years that haven’t sparked the
kind of response the Alabama
case has. That signals to me a
change in public dynamics,”
Bates said.
The Rev. Bobby Eubanks,
pastor of Ridge Baptist
Church in Summerville, said
the answer is a little deeper
than that.
‘That’s why we’re having the
debate we’re having today,” he
said. “The Christians are try
ing to come back to what we
had before. I’ve already told
my wife if they win that case
in Alabama and make that
strong stand for Christianity,
I’d love to migrate to that
state and spend the rest of my
life there.”
Moore’s stance “is clearly in
line with what our Founding
Fathers intended,” said Stuart
J. Roth, senior trial counsel
for the Virginia-based
American Center for Law and
Justice, a Christian legal
agency founded by televange-
Church burning
may help relations
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARIETTA, Ga. - The min
ister of a 108-year-oId black
church that burned last week
in a suspected arson says the
fire may help race relations in
Cobb County instead of harm
ing them.
“I can see Galilee being a
bridge between the white com
munity and the black commu
nity in Cobb County,” the
Rev. George Hill, pastor of
Galilee Missionary Baptist
Church, said Sunday. “The
commimity has really opened
up and welcomed us. It’s not
just the black churches. It’s
the white churches as well.”
The church’s congregation
was welcomed Sunday by the
Cole Street Missionary
Baptist Church in Marietta,
one of numerous area church
es to extend invitations after
fire gutted the church in east
Cobb last Wednesday.
Hill also participated as vis
iting pastor in the absence of
the host church’s minister
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Alabama have a state religion
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Others disagree and say
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can say their religion is right
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who was sick. The congrega
tion plans to go to Roswell
Street Baptist Church next
week.
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga.,
skipped attending his church
to come in support of Galilee’s
members. He said he had
urged the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms and the
FBI to do all they could to
catch those responsible for the
church’s burning.
“Whatever the cause, we
need to stop it, particularly if
there seems to be some sort of
pattern,” Barr said, referring
to the more than 240 bomb
ings and arsons of black
churches in the United States
since 1995. “I’m veiy confident
that they'll get to the bottom
of it very quickly.”
ATF agents said six separate
fires were set inside the
church. A special collection
was taken up Sunday to help
rebuild the church, which fire
officials said suffered damage
estimated at $50,000 to
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