Shooting at the Wrong Target

During one of the student sessions earlier in the Family Conference, Gil Bates asked the students for their most pressing questions.

“It was understanding this principle that became the turning point in my own life.” As it was for Jim Sammons, the Biblical perspective presented here on how to respond to financial obstacles can be a turning point for you as well.

What is wrong with sending someone else in answer to the call? What’s wrong with hoping the unfortunates are “asleep,” not “dead”? Well, nothing—unless the lost are, in fact, dead, and God has empowered us (not the pastor or the missionary only) to bring them back to life!

"You mean we don't have to sin?" This realization brought tears to the former addict as she began to grasp its truth. The same fact had fundamentally changed the speaker himself, John Van Gelderen. And today, the transformation power of Jesus Christ goes on to free audiences without number.