Houston, Texas

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Houston, Texas
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Dear Precious Partners in the Great Commission,

We just heard back from our brother Subodh in Orissa who has just returned home after proclaiming the kingdom of God to the Kui-Soura tribal people in the mountains. If you will recall, these people originate from the same tribe that spawned the Hindu fundamentalists who were the primary persecutors of the Christians last fall in Orissa. Read The Full Story…

Houston, Texas
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Precious Partners in the Great Commission,

We have some unusual news for you from Orissa, the state in India where as you may recall there was violent and bloody persecution against Christians last fall by Hindu fundamentalists.

You may also recall that our Elijah Challenge-trained brother Pastor Subodh in Orissa had Read The Full Story…

Houston, Texas
Monday, March 16, 2009

Dear Fellow Disciples of Christ,

Yesterday morning at the Sunday service of Grace Point Community Church in Houston, we completed our second annual Advanced Training in Houston. At this service—the climax and application of the Advanced Training at our Training Center—I proclaimed the gospel. Two thousand years ago, a man named Jesus Christ made an astonishing claim: Read The Full Story…

Houston, Texas
Friday, March 13, 2009

Dear Prayer Partners,

We have completed the Thursday evening and all day Friday sessions of our Advanced Training here. The Lord has been gracious to use me to train these most committed servants of God who have gathered. Six radical street preachers are here from Open Air Seattle. An open-air preacher named JW is here from Dallas. He is planning to launch an Elijah Challenge Training Center in New York where his ministry is based. A dear sister named Read The Full Story…

Houston, Texas
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Dear Partners in the Great Commission,

We would like to share with you two testimonies we have recently received from people who attended the Basic Training. If you’d like to read them, just click on the links below.

God uses text message to heal in Los Angeles

Houston pastor gains victory over severe epileptic seizure

Tomorrow evening (Thursday evening) we will be beginning our annual Elijah Challenge Advanced Training in our Houston Training Center. If you’d like to know more, the details are available at:

http://www.theelijahchallenge.org/Training%20the%20Trainers/Announcement%20%20for%20March09%20Advanced%20Training.htm.

Please pray that the Lord will use this Advanced Training to raise up a group of fruitful servants of God who in turn will train reliable disciples who will also be qualified to teach others (2 Timothy 2.2). This is the primary purpose of The Elijah Challenge—accelerating the equipping of the body of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission.

Servants of God are flying in from Seattle and Canada as well as driving down from Dallas.

Thank you for interceding for us, dear ones.

Sincerely in Christ,

William & Lucille

Houston, Texas
March 6, 2009

Dear Partners in the Great Commission,

God’s wonderful peace be abundant to you during these turbulent times.

Our Basic Training at the Union Baptist Association in Houston last weekend was a bit of a disappointment, with not a single person showing up for the Saturday session. (This has never ever happened to us before!) But the Lord has comforted us with news from Orissa, India, where as you may recall Christians suffered from violent and bloody persecution last fall at the hands of Hindu fundamentalists.

The Lord gave our Elijah Challenge-trained brother in Orissa, Pastor Subodh Jenna, favor with the President of the Baptist Union in Rayagada Read The Full Story…

I apologise for taking such a long time in posting anything to this site. I’ve been having computer troubles. However it has given me great time to meditate on and focus on the Word of God. I love how my local pastor said it. “May this inability for you to access the internet or to have a computer is from the Lord.” Truely it was.

Now, I am currently writing a new article to be post but let me first post this article I found by/from Paul Washer.

Peace. God Bless.

-Joshua

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Paul Washer ministered as a missionary to Peru for 10 years, during which time he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters. HeartCry’s work now supports indigenous missionaries in Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. An itinerant preacher, Paul also teaches in the internship program at his home church, First Baptist Muscle Shoals. He is the author of The One True God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of God.

Text: Ezekiel 36:22-29

There is a war of the gospel of Jesus Christ.   There is a sense in which men of God should weep; there is also a sense in which men of God should draw swords.  This is about the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I want to demonstrate how far we have gone in our gospel reductionism.

“Are you a sinner?”

“Do you want to go to heaven?”

“Would you like to pray to receive Christ?”

“Would you like to repeat this prayer after me?”

“Welcome to the family of God.”

That form of evangelism is a lie. Read The Full Story…