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Mature
Ministries - About Us
After serving local
churches for more than thirty years, God has called me
to invest the rest of my life, calling the church to
revival.
Today, the enemy is coming
in like a flood from various directions and from a
variety of sources, He is rising up against every truth,
every value, and every virtue, everything we hold dear,
including the very validity of our faith in God.
Our children and
grandchildren are being drenched in a tsunami of lies
and half-truths that are affecting their concept of
life, their value of human life, and that may very well
determined the location of their eternal life.
That is why we must raise the standard of our Lord Jesus
Christ as the only Way, the Source of Truth and the only
way to everlasting Life.
This ministry is one
pastor's plea for a genuine
revival among God's
people: a removal of worldly concepts about what it
means to be a part of the body of Christ in the world
today.
If you agree with this
serious need for revival,
please
contact me. I would love to share this burden
with your church. -Wayne J. Edwards
Mature
Ministries - God’s Wake up Call to the Church
The headline from the
webpage of my own denomination said, “Engage younger
Christians…or else!” Since I was in the middle of
writing this book, the headline worked – it caused me to
take the time to read the entire article. When I
finished, I paused to thank the Lord for answered
prayer, because I could not have asked for a better way
to illustrate the burden of my heart for what is
happening in the church today.
The article began with what the writer perceived as the
crucial issue – “a potential financial crisis looms for
the Southern Baptist Convention as church members
decrease denominational support.” Now, if the writer had
stopped for a moment, perhaps called a few pastors of
those churches where the denominational support had
decreased, and had been willing to honestly face the
consequences of what he would have heard, he may have
been able to find the answer(s) as to why there has been
a 30-year decline in giving by SBC church members. But
instead he shifted to another report that said,
“millions of American ‘twentysomethings’ are checking
out on organized Christianity. And the rest of the
article explained how today’s young adults are less
likely than any other age group to attend church, read
the Bible or donate to religious causes, especially if
they do not feel a personal connection to the ministry,
and how the church had better change the way it relates
to younger members and find some way to connect with
them, because “they won’t buy into the same old, same
old.”
Read this article in it's entirety at
Prophezine.com. |
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