The 2006 Conference is now PAST!
It was a well attended meeting where the WORD of God was thundered from the pulpit and in PUBLIC on the street corner!
Many were challenged to turn from sin to KING JESUS for salvation from death and Hell.
We hope that you will be able to join us at the 2007 SOAPA Conference...stay tuned for updates.
10:00-10:45 10:45-11:30 11:30 am 6:30 pm 7:15 pm 8:00 pm 7 am Breakfast 8 am Pre-meeting warm-up 8:30 Opening Statement & Prayer 9:00 am 9:30 am 10:15 am
By: Eric Rauch 11:00 am 11:45 am 12:15 pm 4:45
5:15 6:00 pm 6:45 pm 7:30 pm
8:15 Opening Statement & Prayer 8:30 am
By: Bro. Kevin (L.A. Bible Believers) 9:00 am 10:00 am
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6:15 pm 7:00 pm 7:45 pm 7 am Breakfast 8 am 8:15 am 8:30 a.m. Opposing the doctrines of the 8:45 am 9:15 am
The scourge of antinomiansim upon Christ's Church By: Bro. Greg Shlapek 9:45 am
Pastor Doug Stephenson, Dr. Div. 10:30 a.m. How to hurt evangelism with 11:00 am
Depart for University of Georgia
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The boundlessness of the immodesty which has overwhelmed Christian churches in the last few years staggers the imagination. However, in many churches, including the fundamentalist churches, because of the seductive fashions displayed in the congregation, and even more from the choir, the atmosphere is permeated with sex. In some instances because of the glamorous hair styles and revealing fashions, sex fairly screams at one. feminine thighs are often unblushingly displayed half way above the knees while form fitting garments over emphasize the female bosom. In some churches the ladies in the choir look more like chorus girls than choir members. Although these are things which no one publicly talks about, they are facts.” |
JAM STREET OUT REACH MINISTRY TO THE POOR
A ministry of compassion
AND Thunder from God
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Charles Spurgeon on Shock and Awe Excerpt from ROUGH WORDS FOR GREAT EVILS By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon WE fear that our two pictures of last month greatly shocked a few of our good reader’s whose souls are tender towards the established Church of our day; but we do not in any degree apologize to them because the shock, like that of a cold bath early in the morning, will do them good, and strengthen their constitutions. We can assure them that they cannot be one-half’ so much shocked by our ridicule of error as we are by the error itself’. We do not make the evil, we only expose it; and if we use words and symbols which strike and stick, and’ even offend, we believe that they are necessary, and ought to be used far more frequently. We are not going to handle the abominations of the present American establishment with kid gloves; and if we judge sarcasm and ridicule to be deserved, we shall give the Lord’s enemies their full quota of scorn. THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL MAY, 1866. “His goodly horse in the battle.” — Zechariah 10:3.
The Lord’s description of the war-horse in the book of Job, dwells upon his fearlessness and eagerness for the fight. “Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.” (Job 39:20-22.) From my watchbox I have noticed with much sorrow several tokens of a fearfulness which, so far from praising, I do most heartly condemn, The outward and visible signs of this inward and spiritual wickedness I see on every hand, thick as the buds upon the trees in this opening spring. Vain were the attempt to catalogue the whole of these tracks of mischief, but a few may serve our turn. There is a great alarm amongst many professors at the suggestion of anything new. A novel method of serving God and winning souls, even though it should commend itself to sound judgment, would yet be discarded by these trembling souls because it might possibly be unsuccessful, and, being new, might involve responsibility and risk, and perhaps graver mischief. Originality, progress, and zeal are dreaded by these spiritual Judges as most radical, revolutionary principles, to be suppressed by all possible means. The exercise of faith in God in the carrying out of a divine impulse is by them looked upon as recklessness coming to the aid of insanity. Their favorite form of marching for the soldiers of King Jesus is the goose step, in which every foot comes down again upon the same spot from which it was lifted. Admirable petrifaction of humanity, we would cheerfully prepare for you well-deserved corners in the Nobody Corner of Restminster Abbey, where your somnolent obstructiveness should receive its due recompense of reward! There is abroad among us a very solemn and silly dread of anything done upon a large scale, or with the faintest show of risk. A niggardly policy stunts our efforts, and pleads as its excuse a prudence which is equally inexcusable. Well might the man of God be angry with Joash for shooting so few of the arrows of the Lord’s deliverance, and we should do well to be angry with many Christians for the Same timorous mode of action. If King Joash had shot more arrows, Syria- would have been quite overcome and cut in pieces; but because he was slack in this, Syria waved her proud banner over captive maids, and sorrowing widows wept in the streets of Samaria. “If the devil can feel a sense of the ludicrous, he must laugh in his sleeve at the timorousness and niggardliness of modern Christians, when contrasted with their professions and avowed beliefs.” Slackhanded Christians must be the admiration and the scorn of the princes of the pit. The world laughs audibly at professors now-a-days, because of their satisfaction with small attempts and imperceptible successes. Oh for broader views of our work, larger labors, and a mightier faith! Let us spare no arrows. May we have grace to empty our quiver upon the foe, drawing our bow with our full force. May our trading for heaven be; conducted upon the noblest scale of enterprise· may our sowing of truth be carried on in the most ample style of liberality. Let us look for a hundredfold harvest, and we shall see it, for according to our faith it shall be done unto us. Cowardice shows itself in a horror of every method of commanding public attention. This hole-and-corner quality shows itself in certain circles in a constant excusing and apologizing for the gospel. Revealed truth was proved so often that nobody believed it.
Among private Christians there exists a more than sufficient dread of intruding religion into their conversation. Any other topic is well ,enough. You may talk about anything else, from the cattle plague to the new island in the Greek Archipelago; and the system of common sewage, the smallpox, or any other disgusting subject may be discussed, but you must not talk about Jesus Christ, or you will be censured for intrusiveness, and I know not what. Colton, in his day, said that men would wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but — live for it: and we may now add, anything but discourse upon it to their friends and acquaintances.
I could with considerable refreshment to myself Genuine courage leads people to believe in your sincerity. You may-sometimes, if you are very confident, do a great many things which you would not be allowed to do if you weere not so bold. I have sometimes seen persons entering into places where they really had no right to be, by coolly marching up to the door as if they were upon business, and feared no interruptions. The man has been so cool, and such a believer in himself, that everybody has believed in him.
Sanctified courage issues a caution to enemies to look at their foe before they set upon him, and thus preserves its owner from many attacks. He who fears men will soon have them like hornets buzzing and stinging all day long; but he who cares nothing for their snarls will soon be let alone. “He bore him in the thickest troop, Why should the sacramental host of God’s elect be less brave than the legions of Caesar, or the battalions of Wellington? Boldness possesses wonderful influence. One bold man is like a shield of brass to a host Of others who are trembling and afraid. “He stopp’d the fliers:
Do you not feel that well-established and confirmed believers stand like rocks in our midst? The weak and trembling enjoy a sense of safety in their society. It is no terror to meet with cavilers when these warriors are in the camp; we rather rejoice at the coming of the foe, because feats of arms will be witnessed. But why should this be true of a mere handful? Why should we not attain to their valor? Why should we not aim at a higher degree of sanctification, that by holy boldness and stability we also may command the same influence in the church as they do? The world also bows before the majesty of courage. He never moved the world who suffered the world to move him. You will never make a man believe if you even seem to doubt for yourself. The reason why Luther could shake the nations was because all the nations put together could not stir him. Archimedes wanted but a place whereon to set his machinery, and then he declared that he could lift the universe. Here is the labor and the difficulty, the finding of that solid standpoint; a doctrine of which we feel infallibly and unconquerably assured, which we have tasted and handled of the good word of life: here and here alone we get the fulcrum for our leverage, and without it we can only like Archimedes talk of what we could do if — , and what we hope to accomplish if — , and there it ends.
Going to work with holy confidence honors the gospel. In the olden times, when Oriental despots had things pretty much their own way, they expected all ambassadors from the West to lay their mouths in the dust if permitted to appear before his Celestial Brightness, the Brother of the Sun and the, Cousin of the Moon. Certain money-loving traders agreed to all this, and ate dust as readily as reptiles; but, by the bye, when England sent her ambassadors abroad, the daring islanders stood bolt-upright. They were told that they could not be indulged with a vision of the Brother of the Sun and Cousin of the Moon without going down on their hands and knees. “Very well,” said the Englishmen, “we will dispense with the luxury; but tell iris Celestial Splendor, that it is very likely that his Serenity will hear our cannon at his palace gates before long, and that their booming is not quite so harmless as the cooing of his Sublimity’s doves.” When it was seen that ambassadors of the British Crown were no cringing petitioners, ore: empire rose in the respect of Oriental tyrants. Another excellence of holy boldness is this, that it will be sure to lead us to further attempts for Christ. It would be almost amusing to observe some of you tract-distributors when first you go out with your tracts. How difficult it seems to you to give anybody that inoffensive piece of paper! It is not a very wonderful thing to distribute tracts — some people do it wholesale, and take a delight in it — but at first it appears to you a Herculean task, needing most extraordinary grace. You must get over this fearfulness. You cannot expect, if you give the tract timidly, that people will receive it joyfully. You who visit a district, think for whom you do it, and in whose name you do it, and who is with you, and you will have few fears. I can very well understand that there is a court in your district which you have never visited, because you are afraid to go into a place of such ill repute; or a house where you have never called, because the people are so respectable. Now look this in the face and see if your conduct is defensible, as in the light of conscience and duty! That young man who preached the other night was told before he went into the pulpit, that Dr. Classic was in the congregation, and he felt a great flutter of fear as to what the learned gentleman might think. It is to be feared that he thought a great deal more of the doctor than of the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet the doctor was not his master, nor did his opinion matter a straw, while the favor of the Lord Jesus was important in the very highest degree. Once more. Holy courage should be cultivated because it incites others to the fight. Your determined march forward may lead the whole host. I grant you that those who are hindmost may have a service to perform, as the tribe of Dan had in the wilderness; but the post of honor, and frequently the post of the greatest usefulness, is that Which Judah occupied, for Judah’s Lion led the way.
Be bold, then, for the Master, for all these reasons, each one of you, and every one of you! SPEAK FOR YOURSELF: A CHALLENGE! NO. 1393 DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.
“He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.”-John 9:21
On the outset it is well to cultivate a general habit of openheartedness and boldness. Let us prove to them that we have a solid reason for our simple protest; that we have actually received the grace in which we earnestly believe. Our words will have weight when they see that the fruit of our piety accords with the flower of our profession. There is great power in this manner of answering the adversary. Take heed however, when you do speak, to be sure of your ground. There are some of you in whom such a change of character has been wrought that you could verily say, “I know I am not the man I used to be. My manner of life from my youth is well known to many, if they would testify. But now God, by the gospel of his Son, has opened my eyes, renewed my heart, cleansed my leprosy, and set my feet in the way of peace.” Even those who scoff at the gospel are, in the cases of many of us, unable to deny the remarkable and beneficial change it has wrought. There is a rectitude here about which we need be very rigid. Put your foot down and say, “No, you cannot misjudge this. You may philosophize, if you like, but the old-fashioned simple gospel of the children it was that changed me, and made me love that which before I hated, and hate that which before I loved. That is a thing you cannot gainsay. One thing I know.” And it is well, like this man, to have the facts ready to adduce. “A man named Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sent me to the pool to wash, and I washed, and I came seeing.” Let them have the plan of salvation, as you first perceived it, very succinctly and plainly put before them. It is often the very best answer you can give to those who question in order to carp and discuss with a view to disparage. Let them have it with the thrill you had it at the time. As the Lord has dealt with your soul so tell them what he has done for you. He must be a hard-hearted man who can sneer at the simple statement of your own conversion. The change it has wrought in you will be a fact which he cannot meet. Though he should think you deluded and call you an nutcase, there is nothing so difficult for him to grapple with as your candour and confidence. “He opened my eyes.” There is the point. “He opened my eyes; and if he opened my eyes, then he was of God. God must have been in such a matter as that, for I was born blind.” Give a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear, to all those who oppose you. Christian men should at all times, also, be as this man was-quite ready to bear abuse. “Thou wast altogether born in sin.” I do not suppose the blind man cared one atom what they had to assert or to insinuate on that score. Their scorn could not deprive him of his sight. He merely shook his head and said, “I can see; I can see. I was blind, but now I see. Pharisees may abuse me, but I can see. They may tell me I am this, that, and the other, but I can see. My eyes are open.” So, child of God, you may often say to yourself, “I may be ridiculed: I may be twitted as Presbyterian, or Methodist; Baptist or Bible Thumper, or even a hypocrite; it does not matter. I am saved; I am a changed man. The grace of God has renewed me; let them call me what they like now.” Some people are very sensitive of satire, They will be tired of teazing us when they find out that our temper triumphs over their senseless tricks. Let them find merriment if they can, poor simpletons. I sometimes feel more inclined to smile than to sadden over the jokes that are coined at my expense. Their playful sallies may relieve some of the pitiful sorrows that light unawares on their lonely hours. Melancholy holds carnival in this mad world. Ghosts and goblins haunt the merriest brain. What if for once now and then they get a living object for their sport, “I’m not ashamed to own my Lord, Or to defend his cause Maintain the honor of his word, The glory of his cross.”
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