The Difference IN Your SIGHT!

The Difference IN Your SIGHT!

Hagar, when in her desperate plight from the House of Promise, found herself at the end of the proverbial rope. She's a desperate mother seeking shelter and salvation for her son, Abram's firstborn. Ishmael represents Abram's efforts to engineer an answer to a God-promise, to provide logic to a God-pledged miracle.

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SHE SCREAMED TO ME: IF WE WERE MISSIONAL, WE’D STILL BE OPEN!

SHE SCREAMED TO ME: IF WE WERE MISSIONAL, WE’D STILL BE OPEN!

Today, I stood on the front steps of an Evangelical Church that was founded in 1876. Today, her doors are bolted and padlocked. Her pews are no longer warmed by persons of praise and her alters no longer stained with the tears of repentant men. Her grounds no longer hear the laughter of children playing and her pulpit is not gripped by the calloused hands of a Heaven-sent Evangel. No, today this old church is just a relic of what “used to be.” She is not relevant to her community’s future, her people’s needs, or her intended purpose. She’s closed.

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