Super Sunday ~ Super Tuesday

I know; I know. I've been awol for awhile. I've gotten numerous emails wondering what is going on. Everything is fine. I've just been very busy and along with a continuing low-energy-level it's been difficult to get things done. Thanks for all the concern.

Thursday I go back to the doctor for my next checkup. They wont know much about how effective the cancer treatment has been since it is still too early to get an accurate test reading. These first few exams are sort of forming a baseline for the future, along with making sure things are progressing according to plan.

Tomorrow I am going to Detroit to do TV taping. The weather here is really bad for flying at the moment, so I'll probably be in the airport most of Tuesday(going) and Wednesday (returning). Give me plenty of time to read!

Last Sunday was a Super day at Shorewood. We had good morning meetings and the rest of the day had a teen activity that lasted till well after 10:00p.m. It's exciting to see young people interested in the Word and the truths of grace. Registration for our up coming Teen Winter Retreat has gone over the top--a high-grade problem!!

The Super Bowl was exciting--the most watched ever, they say. It certainly demonstrates the hold it has on our nation's attention. Now comes Super Tuesday. If my mail is any indication, folks are also intensely interested in the up coming election.

I have a suggestion/observation: You can do more for your neighborhood, city, nation and world if you were to win 10 people to Christ in the next year than if you get your favorite candidate elected. There simply is no real answer in the political realm--no matter who your candidate is or stands for. Gal. 1:4 says it clearly, as does Eph. 2:1-3.

The real answer is in the gospel of grace. Nations turn to God one person at a time. This makes soul winning the answer and the need of the hour. Nothing less will spark a national awaking, a national consciousness, a spiritual revival. America certainly needs all these. We don't need politicians in pulpits. We don't need puppets in pulpits. We need preachers who will preach the Word of God rightly divided and proclaim the gospel of grace clearly, consistently, innovatively and boldly. We need to say, like Hilkiah, "I found the Book!"

Col. 4:5 admonishes us to "walk in wisdom toward them that are without." And what is the "goal" of walking in wisdom? Remember Proverbs 11:30? "....he that winneth souls is wise." Or Dan. 12:3? "They that be wise shall shine...and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever." In other words, the aim of wisdom is to win over the souls of those who reject God's Word; the goal of wisdom is to point people to Christ (Who alone is our "righteousness"--I Cor. 1:30). [Hey, I know those passages doctrinally/dispensationally are addressing Israel, expressly during the time of Jacob's trouble. But they also help you answer that question I asked too, don't they!]

So, get on with the program. Why not make it a goal of your walk to win your friends, neighbors, relative, associates--even enemies!--to Christ this year? Instead of just thinking about it, dreaming about it, praying about, arguing about it--just get on with it. If you don't know what to do or how to do it, find out! This isn't brain surgery. You already know more than every lost person you'll ever talk to! You know how to have your sins forgiven and have eternal life as a present possession. So, get on with the program!! It will do more good than all the other things you're doing. Our nation needs to experience a spiritual transformation. That will only come when believers--you and me, my friend--get busy with the great priority of heaven: winning the souls of those without Christ to Him.
Maranatha!