Reality Revelations

There was a time when I used to say that it didn’t matter what one believed in life.  If someone believed this, that, or something to be true or the truth, well then that’s the way it is for them – truth.  When it came to all the various religions and their practitioners in the world, plus the different philosophies, my thoughts were pretty much the same.  In other words – believe whatever you want to believe - who Read the rest of this entry »

A middle-aged church-going man asked me, “Why is your church marketing itself like a business?”  I replied by informing him that rather than “marketing” ourselves, we were in fact, fulfilling the biblical command of Christ, who told us “go” not “come.”  In other words, our commitment was to go and tell people about Jesus Christ and what He has done for each one of us, not compel them to come to church to be told that.  At the Read the rest of this entry »

Some church denominations combined for the purpose of promoting television messages which asked questions about death.  They were thirty second spots asking something like, “What happens after death?” and, “Where do we go when we die?”  As a result of that promotion, many people rang a church in their local area seeking further information or discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

One day I rang the door bell of a home and when the two men who answered the door learned the reason for my visit, one said, “Just a moment please.”  With that they briskly walked back down the hallway calling the name of another person inside.  I distinctly heard the words, “There’s someone who wants to talk to you.” Read the rest of this entry »

During my time of street ministry I observed there to be no other organization so rigorously committed to systematic door to door visitations than that of the Jehovah Witnesses.  So organized and effective were they in their work in the three and a half years I was out there, they put the rest of us to shame.  And, because of the spiritual vacuum that is so evident in people’s lives, their religion had/has great appeal for people. Read the rest of this entry »

As a messenger of the gospel of Jesus Christ working in one of Melbourne’s middle-class suburbs, I learned to discern very quickly the plight of so many individual people.  Guilt, fear, confusion, worry, anger, anxiety, hurts, bitterness etc – if these were not verbally expressed, then they’d be written on their faces and if not on their faces it would show up in their eyes.  I tried to make no judgements about this however, because many of these emotions are what motivated me for 39 years also.  But when I met the Lord Jesus Christ He began to release me from them. Read the rest of this entry »