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Got Life A newsletter about spiritual enrichment for the Body of Christ
A Monthly Newsletter Knowing The Time
What’s Going On The monthly calendar, birthdays and anniversaries, and Daniel’s Fast resource information. Page 3
An address from the Senior Pastor. Page 2
Words From Our Ministries. Page 5
Church Information NLTC ministry staff, service information and statement of faith. Page 10 Little Chocolate Boy Charles Ademolu’s monthly column Page 7
What Is Your Social Testimony? “Go ye therefore...” To often that phrase is incorrectly associated with outreach or mission work. And therefore we limit the clarion call to a special sect in the church world. But “Go ye” is commanded to every believer who claims the name of Christ. Now, I don’t want to approach this from the usual angle. Instead I want to go deeper and wider into the culture of the twenty-first century. A well known gospel artist once said, “the disciples wish they were alive today...”. The ability for a person to touch lives globally, without ever leaving their
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city, could be considered a wonder of the world. As the social networking world grows, so does the opportunity for us to “go therefore” and be a witness to the “uttermost parts of the earth”. The opportunity is there, but to often we waste it! Before there was such a thing as social networking, christians - with a small “c”- would pretend to be Christians. They had the resemblance of a Christ follower, but they lack the true lifestyle of one.
However, these imitation Christfollowers no longer hide behind Sunday morning performances, doing there antiChrist actions when no one is looking. Nope! Today they are open and out - they have come out of the closet! While Christians are told to be quite and stop “judging people because no bodies perfect!” I won’t even touch on that demonic rhetoric. But the tragedy is one of the greatest opportunities we have to be a witness is being flushed away by people who proclaim to be children of God, while acting as if Satan is their father. You see many sinners, and yes I used that politicly incorrect word, will never set foot in a church to learn about God.
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