November, 2018
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I continually thank God for you. Your love for Christ, family, friends, and church brings glory and honor to God. Your faithful friendship, love, prayers, and financial support to our ministry has enabled us to boldly proclaim the “Good News” to men in the marketplace. They are responding, growing, and moving on to maturity in their commitment to Christ.
I meet with men every week who are recovering from their addictions to alcohol, drugs, lust, anger, hostility, selfish ambition, and other sins that have imprisoned them. Through |
God’s love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness, they have discovered a new life and hope through their faith in Christ. They have come out of darkness into God’s light. They once were lost but now are found.
“All of this a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors. God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so we could be made right with God.”
~ 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (NLT)
An ambassador is a “diplomat sent by a country as it’s official representative to a foreign country.” You and I are representatives of the Kingdom of God to a dark and lost world with the powerful message of reconciliation – that anyone who chooses to repent and believe in Jesus Christ can escape the prison of their sins, be forgiven, and become a new person.
We live in a culture that is polarized and paralyzed with hate, distrust, anger, and division. With God’s power, love, and grace, we need to be ambassadors of love, integrity, peace, and unity. We need to back up our message with actions. Our families need it. Our communities need it. Our nation and world need it.
May God grant us courage to boldly proclaim the “Good News” about Jesus Christ. ~ Romans 1:16
For Christ And His Kingdom...
“All of this a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors. God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so we could be made right with God.”
~ 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (NLT)
An ambassador is a “diplomat sent by a country as it’s official representative to a foreign country.” You and I are representatives of the Kingdom of God to a dark and lost world with the powerful message of reconciliation – that anyone who chooses to repent and believe in Jesus Christ can escape the prison of their sins, be forgiven, and become a new person.
We live in a culture that is polarized and paralyzed with hate, distrust, anger, and division. With God’s power, love, and grace, we need to be ambassadors of love, integrity, peace, and unity. We need to back up our message with actions. Our families need it. Our communities need it. Our nation and world need it.
May God grant us courage to boldly proclaim the “Good News” about Jesus Christ. ~ Romans 1:16
For Christ And His Kingdom...
Dr. Russ Cadle, President
Friendship Ministries
P.S. Thank you for your financial support. We really need it as we come to the year’s end with a $30,000 deficit.