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As wonderful and sophisticated as the heart is, it was never made to be just a heart, but a part of a body. It has no value to the body outside the body. And the heart itself can't thrive outside the body. As incredible and wonderful as you are, Christian, you were never made just to be an individual Christian, but a part of body. As every organ and every cell is God-created to be an active member of the human body, so every true Christian is God-created to be an active member of a local body of Christ.
Donald S. Whitney

What has exceedingly hurt you in time past, nay, and I fear, to this day, is lack of reading. I scarce ever knew a preacher who read so little. And perhaps, by neglecting it, you have lost the taste for it. Hence your talent in preaching does not increase. It is just the same as it was seven years ago. It is lively, but not deep; there is little variety; there is no compass of thought. Reading only can supply this, with meditation and daily prayer. You wrong yourself greatly by omitting this. You can never be a deep preacher without it, any more than a thorough Christian. Oh begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercise. You may acquire the taste which you have not; what is tedious at first will afterward be pleasant. Whether you like it or not, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days, and a pretty, superficial preacher. Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer. Take up your cross and be a Christian altogether. Then will all the children of God rejoice (not grieve) over you, and in particular yours.
John Wesley

    • Only One Way

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    Only One Way ONLY ONE WAY

    “Oh, I believe there are many ways to God. Don’t you believe that there will be people from all religions in heaven?”

    No, that’s not what the Bible teaches. Peter proclaimed to the city leaders of Jerusalem,

    “Salvation is to be found through him (Jesus of Nazareth) alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.” (Acts 4:12 GNB)

    Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY answer to the sin-problem. He is the only one who ever died as a substitute for sinners and rose again victorious from the dead. He has the right to say, “I am the Way,…no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6), because He is the only One who opened that way with the blood-sacrifice of Himself.

    The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus Christ is the pre-existent God the Son, the creator and sustainer of the universe, the virgin-born Lamb of God, the Crucified and Risen Lord. Any religion which fails to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as all this is a false religion. (This includes apostate forms of historic “churchianity”.)

    If you are in a group or under a pastor that disbelieves in Jesus, GET OUT! There are many religions in this world, but there is only one way to heaven. His name is Jesus. Trust Him today, the Christ of the Scriptures; trust Him alone, and not in combination with your own works or anything else.

    We challenge you to read the Bible for yourself, beginning in the 4th book in the New Testament, the Gospel of John. We urge you to find a local church that holds to the Bible as the inerrant rule for faith and practice, and which is seeking to share the Good News and make disciples at home and all over the world.

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