On Saturday, May 26th, from 9:00 a.m. until Noon, in Good Shepherd’s parking lot, we are going to do an extraordinary mission project; we are going to wash cars in order to raise money to feed the homeless at the Episcopal Center in Ocean Beach. Bishop Mathes will help us wash the cars. He wants to help us in doing our mission to the world. While we are washing cars, we will also have a prayer tent, offer tracts to those who come, and entertain us all with Christian music. We will have a sign-up sheet in mid-May; we will need MANY workers to wash and dry the cars; we will need LOTS of large towels; we will need someone to make signs and several people to stand at the intersection and wave signs; we will need someone to direct traffic and someone to take money. Please invite your friends and neighbors to get their cars washed and to help those who are homeless. God can work in many ways through our mission project.
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Our purpose is . . .
" To know Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour, To make Him known, and to nurture a loving Christian family."
THE REVEREND GEORGE C. CALVERT "FATHER GEORGE"
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Christ's Victory and Your Victory
We have victory through Christ's Resurrection
There are many things in life that seem to defeat us, and can defeat us. We have evil inside of ourselves that keeps popping up; we have a world around us full of evil that can hurt us; we have the supernatural evil of the Devil who tempts us; we experience the death of loved ones and our own death looms on the horizon, which can give us a defeated feeling. In the midst of all this evil, temptation and death, it is easy to feel defeated and depressed. But as Christians, we are called to live a life of victory and this victorious life is not just a "pumped up" feeling or a hoped for future. It is based on the reality of Jesus Christ's resurrection. In Christ's resurrection, we can claim victory over the power of evil and death and anything else that tries to defeat us.
In the first letter of John, we read these powerful words, "For whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God." Chapter 5:4-5
When we invite the Risen Christ to come into our lives, we experience the wonder and joy of being born of God. His risen presence re-creates us, so that we are filled with his resurrected life. It is Jesus' resurrected life inside of us that gives us victory. But we have to believe in Jesus in order to allow this resurrected life to give us the victory. It is our faith that enables us to have victory. When we truly believe in Jesus, entrusting ourselves to Him, then we experience victory, even in the midst of all the evil and problems of the world.
Jesus' resurrection brings us victory over:
Sin - our inner evil
The World - external evil
The Devil - supernatural evil
Death - the result of all evil
The fallen Creation - natural evil
Jesus' resurrection is victory in the grandest and fullest sense possible. It is total victory over all problems and over evil in all forms in every corner of the universe. Even the entire universe, which is corrupted by sin will be replaced with a new, redeemed Creation. Jesus' resurrection is total victory, that will eventually be manifested. Jesus tells us in John's Gospel, to, "have confidence! It is the world that I have conquered." John 16:33
A Christian should have confidence that Jesus' resurrection is the source of their victory over all problems. We are called to be a victorious people. Because Jesus was victorious, we, too, will be victorious. This should give us great confidence. Even in the midst of problems that could defeat us, we have victory through Christ's resurrection; we are an Easter people!
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