What is Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ?
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What is Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ?
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Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ is an organized effort to remind pastors of our Pastoral Heritage. God called us to be Watchmen on the Wall. We are to encourage and comfort when all is well and to cry out when danger approaches. We are to evangelize the lost with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ and to stand against the spread of wickedness in our culture. We are to be Salt and Light. We have confused the terms “serving the Lord” with “going to church.” The typical Christian attends Sunday service and says, “There, I’ve served the Lord.” Not so!! Church is for the Body of Christ. We attend church for fellowship, encouragement, accountability and Bible preaching and teaching. We are to be “fully equipped” at church in order to GO OUT and serve the Lord. From Enoch to Noah; Moses to Samuel; Elijah to Nathan, Isaiah to Daniel; John the Baptist to Paul; from Jonathon Edwards to George Whitefield; John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg to John Witherspoon; from Charles Finney to Dwight Moody to Billy Sunday – prophets and preachers of God have preached faithfully the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stood firmly for righteousness on this earth, to the common man and also to the king. Fundamental, evangelical preachers nearly all agree that God established three great institutions on earth – the family, human government and the church. We know and preach that the family must be built on the Rock of Jesus Christ. We know and preach that the Church must be built on the Rock of Jesus Christ. So too, government was designed by God to be subject to and built on the Rock of Jesus Christ. This Nation was founded upon those principles. Read carefully the words of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” The purpose of government was to secure mans God given rights. Truly, “When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice (Proverbs 29:2)” and “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord (Psalm 33:12)!” Let us Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ!!
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