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March 12, 2013

Original post at http://www.nextstepevangelism.org/2013/03/12/maxies-weekly-word-21/

FEAR CRACKLES LIKE A FIRE IN EVERY LIFE

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Hold that word of Joseph Campbell in your mind for a moment. Anyone who is alive knows the experience of fear for fear crackles like a fire in every life.

Fear of failure that keeps us from risking or even trying. Fear that flows from our doubt about personal ability or even personal worth. Fear about the faithfulness of our marriage mate. Fear of being found out in our moral weakness. Fear of death. Our own death or the loss of a loved one. Fear that our children will not turn out good. Fear of no job when we finish college. Fear of retirement because of economic insecurity.

The answer to fear is confidence, and the only way to confidence is to name our fear and face it squarely. So the cave you fear to enter may hold the treasure you seek if you are seeking to make life matter.

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Feb 14 2013

Next Step Evangelism: “ReThinking Mission” – A WMEI Training Seminar at Emory University

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February 14, 2013

Original post at http://www.nextstepevangelism.org/2013/02/14/rethinking-mission-a-wmei-training-seminar-at-emory-university/

INVITATION TO ALL METHODISTS AND WESLEYANS

FROM THE WORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INSTITUTE

Our World Methodist Evangelism Institute (WMEI) is announcing: RETHINKINGMISSION in the Methodist/Wesleyan Movement in North America. This is an evangelism/mission training event, especially organized for clergy and laity, and being held at

Candler School of Theology, Emory University, on Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Registration cost of $70.00 per person before March 1 or $80.00 after March 1, covers registration, materials and resources from UMC, C.M.E., A.M.E. and A.M.E. Zion, lunch and snacks. Special $50.00 registration fee per person for local congregations sending 5 or more persons. Individuals may sign up. Pastors may bring teams of leaders. Special rate for seminary students.

Register on our website at www.wmei.ws

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Feb 12 2013

Next Step Evangelism: Maxie’s Weekly Word

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February 12, 2013

Original post at http://www.nextstepevangelism.org/2013/02/12/maxies-weekly-word-17/

WHO IS REALLY BIBLE BELIEVING

A fellow was talking with me about so many different denominations and he said, “You know, I’m a Bible believing Christian.” Well, I didn’t question him about what he meant by that, but I do question the masses who would make a claim like that without examining what they are claiming. Usually that claim is connected with the notion that we are a Christian nation.

So here is a test. We serve many gods: materialism, money, wealth, but the Bible says, What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and lose his own soul.

We worship the god of sex and pleasure, but the Bible says, Do you not know your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit; glorify God in your body.

We serve the god of power and prestige, but the Bible says, Many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.

So my question, Are we really Bible believing?

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Jan 27 2013

Next Step Evangelism: Making Life Matter

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January 27, 2013

Original post at http://www.nextstepevangelism.org/2013/01/27/making-life-matter-41/

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