2009-10-26T09:22:29-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/lost http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/a-heart-like-his-5946 2009-10-26T09:22:29-05:00 The church you're in, the ministry you're in - is it committed to saving lives on the stretch of the beach around you, or just feeding and comforting the life-saving crew? If your ministry, your church, your Bible study isn't about rescuing those who will die otherwise, you may need to do a quick heart exam. Do you have the heart of your Savior who said His reason for coming was to seek and to rescue the lost? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/unguarded-beaches-3016 2009-10-01T10:40:34-05:00 You may think there's someone better to rescue the people around you, but God put you in the middle of them. This is your stretch of the beach. The people there are your responsibility. Don't leave your beach unguarded. Too many people are dying at unguarded beaches. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-shocking-view-through-4-d-glasses-3456 2009-09-21T15:54:41-05:00 People Jesus died for so they could be rescued from all this - people who may never know Jesus unless you introduce them to Him. He has positioned you in their life to be their rescuer. Once you see what Jesus sees, you'll rescue the dying, whatever it takes! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-missing-person-on-your-journey-3724 2009-09-21T10:37:20-05:00 The Bible indicates that many people - especially those who've been around Christian things a lot - are in danger of making this same deadly mistake. Like our daughter in that grocery store, they are going on without the Person they need to lead them - and they're ending up lost. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/why-customers-are-not-coming-2826 2009-09-17T12:10:10-05:00 Question - how can there be so many Christians and so few lost people coming to Christ - or even coming to church or Christian meetings? Could it be that the customers aren't coming for the same reason they weren't coming to Wall Drug Store in those early years. We're selling our product - the good news of Jesus. But they drive right on by. They don't care about sin, so they don't care about what Jesus did for sin. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/going-back-to-where-you-went-wrong-2823 2009-09-17T12:07:19-05:00 Biblical repentance always goes hand-in-hand with restitution - making things right at the point where you went wrong. That might be restoring money to someone, undoing some lies or some damage you did to someone's reputation, maybe asking forgiveness of those who you sinned against sexually, sinned with sexually, or maybe of those who have been hurt by you anger. Whatever the sin, the Holy Spirit of God will make it clear what needs to be made right. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-names-in-the-foundation-5903 2009-09-11T12:27:26-05:00 We all know what a world-changer Simon Peter turned out to be because of someone who loved him enough to bring him to Jesus. There's someone like that in your life; someone who will probably never make it to Jesus if you don't bring them. And God is trying to plant their name deep in the foundation of your heart, so that person becomes your own personal spiritual mission. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015:4-7&version=NIV 2009-07-23T16:43:34-05:00 God values each person individually--no matter how many people join His family, He never loses sight of even the humblest member of His church. He'll go to extreme lengths to keep each one safe, as Jesus describes in this comforting story. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Life-Changing-Heart-Surgery-4246 2008-08-21T15:45:37-05:00 Now, while medical history records that the first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Barnard in the 1960s, real heart transplants were actually pioneered millennia ago - by the Master Heart Surgeon. And this miraculous procedure is more life changing than any medical procedure could ever be. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/The-Shock-at-the-End-4259 2008-08-21T11:42:29-05:00 One of the most sobering truths in the Bible is this: God has two lists. Each of us is on one of those two lists. Everyone we know, everyone we care about, is on one of those two lists. In 1 John 5:10-11, God plainly says, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." There it is - the "saved" and the "lost." And it all depends on one thing - whether or not you have Jesus in your heart.