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Lancaster Bible College's Student Missions Fellowship

LBC's SMF in N.Philly for a weekend in the fall of 2007. This was a missions trip to the 'BadLands' to reach-out to people who are not in kind fellowship with Jesus Christ. We served in a Homeless shelter (called,"Sunday Morning Breakfast"), and shared our time and the Gospel message with people on the streets of N.Philly. "Jesus Christ did not come to merely make bad people good, but to make dead people live." No other major belief system seems to so truly grasp the actual condition of humanity, and to make such a claim in providing such a Savior. The first and greatest command in the Bible is to 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'... and with that, Jesus marries the command to 'Love your neighbor', otherwise, one cannot say that he loves God. (See the Gospels, & 1-Corinthians 13, & 1-John) God/Jesus is not only concerned with His people adhering to what is ethical, He clearly implores us to LOVE to the fullest extent of the definition ( ex. 1-John 3:16 ). In short, the crux of the greatest message for all humanity is: God became a human (Jesus) to take our human punishment (for our 'sins'). Our fellowship however cannot be fully restored with God by His Love alone, -in the sense that we must repent and genuinely recognize Gods Love for us, and receive His Forgiveness and to Love God. (see John 3:16) A relationship or marriage does not work when only one Loves the other, but when both have Agape Love.

Posted 2008-03-17T00:00:00