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| Mrs. Painter with her visitors on Sunday morning. Ma Jee and her children. |
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| Mrs. Painter hosted an activity to the Burmese refugee girls at our house. |
Lincoln Baptist Church is culturally diverse. Our services are in English, however, we have people attend every week from all over world. We have a core of Americans, but a great outreach for refugees. For example this past Sunday morning we had two visiting couples that were from Congo and a Karen lady that came with her children. All first timers! We also had a Burmese couple and a Sudanese family return from the previous week. Praise God!
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| More activities from the Saturday get together. |
However, it has been brought to my attention that some don't like the fact that our church is so culturally diverse. Might I say that God loves the souls of all men! In
Matthew 28:19 He said,
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" I think He meant all nations!!!
Folks, our church is not run like some conglomeration of multiple churches from different countries. We run our church like an independent, fundamental, KJB preaching and believing Baptist Church! What I cannot understand is why someone would want to support missionaries to go across the world to reach these same kind of people, but not want to go to church with them themselves! I will always oppose this Pharisee attitude that self righteous Christians carry with them while they sit on their blessed assurance and do nothing to reach a dying world!!!
The Bible tells us in
Revelation 7:9, "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number,
of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;" I'll bet that will be tough for some people! Image this, Christ loves everybody! Christ also wants every nation, kindred, people, and tongue reached in any given area. Christ had much love patience and tolerance for many different kinds of people. However, He had very little patience for self-righteous Pharisees. Those were the ones that we can see in the Scriptures that He criticized. God has been good to us so we are going to keep reaching everybody! Somebody say Amen!
