Become an Impact World Changer
The Church doesn’t need a revival. It needs renewal! To revive something is to merely bring back to life that which already existed. No matter how many times we revive the church, it will still be a culturally bound, religious institution that is an irrelevant factor for most of humanity. The current statistics of church in America are more than disheartening. We are not reaching the lost, we are not making people whole and stable, and we are not changing the world!
Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord asked this question, Now therefore, what have I here," says the LORD, "That My people are taken away for nothing (Is. 52:5)? He wants to know why people are taken captive and held in oppression for no reason! If He is our deliverer, if He is our salvation, if He is our source we should not live in defeat and bondage.
Then He answers His own question by pointing out the problem. Those who rule over them Make them wail," says the LORD (Is. 52:5). What leaders teach people about God is the key to the quality of their life, and the global Impact of the church. The preaching of an angry, legalistic God has rendered the church powerless and defeated, and made the world angry.
In this telling prophesy, we grasp the ugly reality that it is what we have preached and modeled to the world that makes the world blame God for all the pain, suffering and destruction. Here is what God identified as the fruit of leaders who preach a negative, legalistic message. "And My name is blasphemed continually every day (Is 52:5). Because God is blamed by the church for the suffering of world, mankind hates and blasphemes God!
But God foretells of a day when all that would change, a day people will know the difference between who God really is and who He has been proclaimed to be. The world will see the difference between the Gospel that sets men free and religion that serves only to keep man under control. Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore they shall know in that day that I am He who speaks: 'Behold, it is I” (Is 52:6).
Knowing and believing the truth about God makes it possible for people to experience the quality of life promised by the Lord Jesus (John 10:10). It brings all the promises of God within the grasp of every believer (2 Cor 1:20). It gives freedom from all the curse of the law (Gal 3:13). It ends the religious struggle to earn righteousness (Rom 3:21-22). Seeing God as He is, delivers us from death to life, bondage to freedom, darkness to light, fear to perfect love.
Then He addresses the most important part of this divine revelation. What is it that will finally free people from the oppression of a negative concept of God? The apostle Paul called it the Gospel of Peace (Rom 10:15)! Isaiah foretold that people who heard the truth would say, How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims (the gospel of) peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Jim Richards and Impact Ministries pioneered the message of the Gospel of Peace. The worldwide best selling book, The Gospel of Peace, has influenced the preaching of hundreds of thousands of leaders and the lives of millions of believers worldwide. If you have heard the Gospel of Peace it probably came to you directly or indirectly through this ministry. Since 1972 Jim Richards has pioneered an uncompromising message of the unconditional goodness of God.
It has been through the generosity of those who have been influenced by this message that the world has come to hear the Gospel of Peace. Jesus said the greatest act of generosity, an act that could only be repaid in heaven, is when a person gives to help someone who has no way to repay them. By becoming a World Changer you will transform the lives of people around the world, people you will never see in this life. The reward you will receive in this life will be a heart affected by a level of generosity so great that it changes you ability to prosper. And in heaven, you will hear Jesus say and express His thanks to you personally.
Today you can join Dr Jim Richards, along with hundreds of thousands of people around the world who are fully committed to Changing the Way the World sees God!
If this message has changed your life, if you are thankful for what knowing grace, peace, faith righteousness and unconditional love has done for you, if you want to be a World Changer, this is your chance. Become a world changer today and together we will Change the Way the World Sees God!
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