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Jaime Benitez plan for Colombia

August 31, 2010 in Help A Missionary, Prayer Requests, South America with 0 Comments

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Planting churches in Colombia

Why should we plant churches in Colombia?

The main reason that I see is that there are not that many Biblical churches in this great country of forty million inhabitants. In Bogotá that has nearly 6,000,000 the presence of Biblical churches is laughable, you can count them on your fingers.

There is a great need for churches that preach the gospel from a Biblical perspective with sound doctrine like those that have given their lives over the years. The last thing Bogotá needs is new and strange doctrines.

Due to violence like the problems between the paramilitary and procommunist factions the country has nearly been off limits for several years by foreign missionaries.

If there were at least 200 good Biblical churches in Bogotá then I could not ask you to help us open another but that is not the case!

Colombia is nearly virgin territory for the gospel.

Here are some advantages as to why we should go to Colombia:

Religious freedom

The people are very receptive to the gospel

The violence has caused people to want to seek another alternative for their lives

Family problems, drug addiction, etc. are causing parents to seek spiritual help

Migration from the rural areas to the cities

An enormous population that doesn’t know about salvation by faith and not by works

A Roman church that has lost much of its influence over the people due to the pedophile scandals

These are the words of Jaime explaining why he is returning to Colombia. Will you please pray about helping him on a monthly basis for at least two years.

You can contact him for more info at

Atentamente: Jaime, Margelis, Ray Andrés y Sara Sofía Benítez Betín.
E-mail. incacaribe@hotmail.com

http://jaimebenitezbenitez.wordpress.com/

Skype. Jaime.benitez2

Rejoice in the Lord

August 31, 2010 in Devotionals with 0 Comments

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

Our joy is to be found in the Lord Jesus not in any other thing. Everything fails. Our health, finances, relationships, or what ever you name can fail but not the Lord Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the source of our eternal joy and that started the moment we got saved.

When you think of things that give you joy think of the Lord Jesus. Think of your salvation. Think of His unconditional love. Rest in the fact that you are accepted and loved.

There is nothing you can do to make Him love you more and there is nothing you can do to make Him love you less!

Tomorrow’s reading Matthew 1

So far we have read the following books; Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon, I John, II John, III John, Jude, and Revelation. Now we will read Matthew.

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Jesus is worth more than anything

August 30, 2010 in Devotionals with 0 Comments

Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Paul lists many things that he might have used to gain merit in this world or before God but he realized that none of these things were of any value. He weighed what he had and what he had done and counted it as nothing.

The most important thing was his relationship with the Lord Jesus.

I hope that today we will take some time and realize that only Jesus matters.

Tomorrow’s reading Philippians 4

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Surprised by Grace

August 30, 2010 in Book Reviews, Reading Notes with 0 Comments

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I just finished reading Surprised by Grace by Tullian Tchividjian!

Here are several quotes that made the book well worth reading:

In seminary I had a professor who referred to the New Testament as the Bible’s footnotes. He meant no disrespect; he knew that the New Testament is just as inspired and trustworthy and infallible as the Old. He was simply saying in a different way what Augustine said centuries earlier-that the New Testament is contained in the Old, and the Old Testament is explained in the New.

God is more interested in the worker than he is in the work the worker does. He’s more interested in you than in what you can accomplish. If accomplishing Project Ninevah was all God cared about, he could have discarded Jonah and found a more reliable prophet. He knew Jonah would run; so why did he ask Jonah to go in the first place? It was because Jonah was God’s project. God comes after Jonah not because he needs Jonah, but because Jonah needs God.

But before we go to far in condemning Jonah’s self-righteousness, we need to be aware of another (prehaps more subtle) side to self-righteousness that “younger brother” types need to be careful of. There’s an equally dangerous form of self-righteousness that plaques the unconventional and the non-religious types. Anti-legalists can become just as guilty of legalism in the opposite direction. What do I mean? Those who are more like the younger brother -more irreligious-can easily take sinful pride in that fact.

Many younger evangelicals today are reacting to their parents’ conservative, buttoned-down, rule-keeping flavor of “older brother religion” with a type of liberal, untucked, rule-breaking flavor of “younger brother irreligion” It screams out, “That’s right! I know I don’t have it all together, and you think you do; I know I am not good, and you think you are. And that makes me better than you!” See the irony? We become self-righteous against the self-rightesous.

God is in the business of relentlessly pursuing rebels like us and that he comes after us not to angrily strip away our freedom but to affectionately strip away our slavery so we might become truly free.

We learn about the danger we experience when we run from God’s will, the deliverance we experience when we submit to God’s will, the deliverance others experience when we fulfill God’s will, and the depression we experience when we question God’s will.

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The secret to a sweet spirit in the church

August 29, 2010 in Devotionals with 0 Comments

Philippians 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Philippians 2 is about the humility of the Lord Jesus Christ. He had every right to be worshipped because of who He is, but He humbled Himself to become a man and then to die the death of the cross. He teaches us by His example how we are to act as we serve together.

We are not to think about ourselves but others. We are to surrender our rights to be honored and respected and to honor and respect others.

Why not consider this today as you go about your service to the Lord Jesus and to other believers.

If we have His attitude there will be a sweet spirit in the church. It is not the responsibility of others or the pastor to insure this but everyone of us!

Tomorrow’s reading Philippians 3

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