Ambassadors' Academy Webinar

In March 2008, Living Waters hosted its first Ambassadors' Academy—3 ½ days of intensive evangelism training. Fifty participants from around the world attended the first Academy. Since then, some eight hundred people, from forty-nine states and seven foreign countries, have attended one of the seventeen Ambassadors' Academies.
August will mark our eighteenth Academy and the end of our third season. We are planning to end this season by launching a major addition to the August itinerary—one that has the potential of not only training, but mobilizing tens of thousands of Christian to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, in a single day.

Until now, Living Waters has not made the Academy day of classroom instruction available to the public. But now, through the use of the Internet, we will produce a day-long webinar of the classroom instruction provided to Academy participants.
Now, you and your church can receive life-changing evangelism training from Mark Spence, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, Emeal ("E.Z.") Zwayne, and other members of the Living Waters team. Our hope is that churches around the world will participate in this live webinar by showing the webinar at their churches; and then sending their own evangelism teams into their cities to reach the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ. While the Ambassadors' Academy is hitting the streets in southern California, churches around the world will hit the streets in their area—effectively mobilizing thousands of Christians around the globe to proclaim the gospel to millions.

To help churches facilitate this world-wide event, Living Waters is providing the webinar at no cost. In addition, we will provide the training syllabus as a free download so the people participating in the webinar can take full advantage of the classroom instruction.
To view the live webinar on Thursday, August 26th, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm click HERE.

For more information regarding how your church can participate in this exciting, world-changing Ambassadors' Academy webinar event, please contact: webinar@livingwaters.com.

"Lying Lips are an Abomination to the LORD"

Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. Proverbs 12:22

Our Master has a strict honor code. From Genesis to Revelation, the theme is the same: God loves the truth and hates deceit. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Paul lists the type of people who will not inherit the kingdom of God. His hit-list is a ragged assortment of those who sin sexually, worship idols, take part in adultery, sell their bodies, get drunk, rob people, and--there it is--lie to others.
Such harshness may surprise you. You mean my fibbing, half-truths, exaggerations, and white lies stir the same heavenly anger as adultery and aggravated assault? Apparently so....

Why the hard line? Why the tough stance?

For one reason: dishonesty is absolutely contrary to the character of God.

He is --holy --holy --holy.

I Shall Not be Moved

He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defense; I shall not be moved. Psalm 62:6

Here is a big question.
What is God doing when you are in a bind? When the lifeboat springs a leak? When the rip cord snaps? When the last penny is gone before the last bill is paid? When your tract is rejected? When you look like a fool for speaking out and standing up? When ...
I know what we are doing. Nibbling on nails like corn on the cob. Pacing floors. Doubting our calling, doubting the power of the Gospel, and doubting God.

But what does God do?. . .
He fights for us. He steps into the ring and points us to our corner and takes over. "Remain calm; the LORD will fight for you" (Exodus. 14:14).

His job is to fight. Our job is to trust and be faithful. He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He will complete the work which He started.

Just trust. Not direct. Or question.

Our job is to abide and allow God to be God in all things.

Keep Things Simple


"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew 6:21

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going (heaven), knows where the source of strength is (Christ), and the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness (cares of this world). With one hand on God and the other on a tract we are bound to stay focused with our objection. Perhaps today will be the last day we have to share the GREAT news of God's redemptive plan. Keep things simple. Stay focused. Life is quick. We're almost finished. We're almost home.

Don't miss this free Conference in New York!

August 6, 2010 at 10:00am - August 8, 2010 at 5:00pm



Evangelism Summit New York "Go, Stand, Speak" Speakers:
Jeff Rose - JeremiahCry Ministries
James White - Alpha and Omega Ministries
Eric Holmberg - The Apologetics Group
Mark Spence - The Way of The Master
...Michael Marcavage - Repent America
Jon Speed - The Lost Cause Ministries
Tyler Mcnabb - JeremiahCry Ministries
Pat Necerato -Go, Stand, Speak


Register here:
http://www.jeremiahcry.com/register.php


City View Baptist Church
1143 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11226
http://cityviewbaptistchurch.org/

We will be going out after and doing outreach at night

How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?

I’m often asked why God would send people to a place of torment. Since God is loving, why would He send people to hell?

Why should we think God has a less sense of justice than mankind? God is loving, but that's not all He is, He's also a good judge. Should a loving human judge allow criminals to go free? Of course not. If we, with our finite justice system think it's necessary to punish criminals in civil court, how much more should an infinite God judge our crimes, our sins against Him?

The Bible tells us God alone is holy. He is the standard of all that is right and good. His nature is pure.

Think of it like this:
If I were to light a match and place the flame next to a dried out leaf, what would happen? The fire would consume the leaf. Why? Because they're different, their natures are opposed one to the other.

In the same way, God and man have opposing natures. On the Day of Judgment, sinful man will not be able to stand in the presence of a Holy God because of their opposing natures.

God is not unloving, He is Holy.
He is described as a "consuming fire who dwells in unapproachable light”. In our sinful state, we don't stand a chance. Our only hope is to somehow take on the same nature as God. We must be born again. When we turn from our sins and place our faith in the resurrected Christ, God imputes His righteousness to us.

It's imperative that we are given this new nature, since each of us are headed towards our own personal Judgment day.

The Bible says in Psalm 96:3 “He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness”

So the next time someone tells you a loving God would never send anyone to Hell, simply explain the difference between God and man’s opposing natures. The problem isn't with God, the problem is our sin.

I am slated to speak at the John 10:16 Conference along side such speakers as Michael Horton, Dennis Johnson, Voddie Baucham, and James White August 4-5, 2010. Learn more by visiting the Conference website at http://john1016conference.com/.

See you there,
mark

For the Christian, there are very few things that rival the joy of exploring the depths of God's truth, and of discovering the countless, life-changing gems along the way. Whether you are a new believer or you have walked with Christ for many years, we want to invite you to be a part of an adventurous exploration called, “Deeper”. Join us for this exciting, 2-day conference as we journey deeper in our understanding of God, through a stimulating examination of various relevant topics. Our tour guides include some of today's most influential and sought-after speakers. What are you wading for? Let's go Deeper!

Are you on fire for God?

Blazing?

Maybe you just don’t have as much enthusiasm as you once did.

Maybe you are just burned out.

Could it be that you find Bible reading to be drudgery?

Do you pray as you once did?

We would like to challenge you to attend

Transformed.

It may be the most challenging four hours of your life. But if you will commit to attending Transformed and apply what you hear, we guarantee…you will never be lukewarm again.

Promise. If we don’t deliver, then you will get a full refund. Wait, it’s free…now you have absolutely nothing to lose.

You will pray harder, read the Word with gladness and you will appreciate and love the Lord more than ever before.

What do you say? Have you always wanted to be an on fire Christian who never flames out? Have you always wondered what was missing?

Join us for Transformed. We can’t wait to see you there.

The Death of Truth

Allan Bloom, author of the landmark critique of American education The Closing of the American Mind, starts his analysis this way: 'There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the students' reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the proposition as not self-evident astonishes them, as though he were calling into question 2 + 2 = 4.

"What Professor Bloom observes is not a trend but a revolution. Like most revolutions, it did not start with a rifle shot or a cannon but with an idea that was whispered in many different environments and diverse situations. This revolution started in academia and eventually engulfed the common person. Its growth has been so subtle and thorough that it is now a core belief-not just of the college elite, but also of the rank and file, white collar and blue collar alike.
What Is Truth?

Since the sixties we have been in the throes of this quiet but desperate revolution of thought - the death of truth. We don't mean 'truth' in the sense of something being my personal opinion. Rather we refer to the death of what the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer called 'true truth,' the extinction of the idea that any particular thing can be known for sure.

Today we've lost the confidence that statements of fact can ever be anything more than just opinions; we no longer know that anything is certain beyond our subjective preferences. The word truth now means 'true for me' and nothing more. We have entered an era of dogmatic scepticism.

Ideas that are whispered are seldom analyzed well, for they simply don't draw enough attention. By means of repetition and passive acceptance over time, they take on the force of common wisdom, a 'truth' that everyone knows but no one has stopped to examine, a kind of intellectual urban legend.

Once ideas like these take root, they are difficult to dislodge. Attempts to do so result in Bloom's 'uncomprehending' stares. The ideas become so much a part of our emerging intellectual constitution that we are increasingly incapable of critical self-reflection. Even if we did, we have little conviction that such analysis would do any good anyway. As Kelly Monroe remarked in her book Finding God at Harvard, 'Students feel safer as doubters than as believers, and as perpetual seekers rather than eventual finders.'

When truth dies, all of its subspecies, such as ethics, perish with it. If truth can't be known, then the concept of moral truth becomes incoherent. Ethics become relative, right and wrong matters of individual opinion. This may seem a moral liberty, but it ultimately rings hollow. 'The freedom of our day,' lamented a graduate in a Harvard commencement address, 'is the freedom to devote ourselves to any values we please, on the mere condition that we do not believe them to be true.'

The death of truth in our society has created a moral decay in which 'every debate ends with the barroom question "says who?" ' When we abandon the idea that one set of laws applies to every human being, all that remains is subjective, personal opinion."


*Thanks to Greg Koukl & Francis J. Beckwith for their wonderful book 'Relativism -Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air'