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| GEORGE WROTE:Re: Dear paster Don. Did you get our email
Dear paster Don, I was very glad to hear from you
and i did reply, but i have been checking the mission email box with out any replies from
you. Please we would like to hear from you or your assistance to enable get us funders of
this owesome mission. Please this mission does not need lots of money but your offer of
only 20$,50$ or 100$ and more is all we need to add on what we have.
Please do reply us soon . We love you leadership in the Lord because all leadership comes from the Lord, Amen. George ______ - Mission messenger. B'ANN WROTE: Dear George:You have not been reading our site carefully or you would know that we do not have a fund-raising site. We do not raise money for ourselves or others. We all work at jobs and pay for any ministry we might have for God. I can understand that when you are living in another country you need finances; and I would not want to treat your call lightly or without proper respect. But, some years ago I was privileged to meet a couple that were ministering in the mountains of South America. They had been sent by a mother church in Belgium. The church had gotten into a "church fight" and the large body had disbanded into smaller units. Since Roberto and Lurdis had been sent out by the mother church as missionaries, they found themselves cut off in the remote mountains without funding. This was their solution. They ate the food provided by the people, they lived in the same type hut, they helped the native group erect a church building that was done in the simple style of the people and continued their call. It remained 45 degrees year around in this mountainous area which was a great hardship to them, but they persevered by "becoming all things to all people". I respectfully request that you look around for your "raven" (I King 17:4-6) that God is surely providing amongst the people where you live. Start where you can, such as home meetings. After you build a congregation, they will help you build a church that will be their response to God. You must "bloom where you are planted!" There is a Biblical principle that applies here. If one meets the spiritual needs of those that he or she is called to serve, in turn, those they serve will meet their physical needs. You must allow the people there a chance to grow and learn of God’s provisions. |
| TONY WROTE: Dear Mr. Love, My name is Tony F______. I am the pastor of the F______ Baptist Church, a small Southern Baptist Church in Oklahoma. I would like to have a copy of the "Ages and their Covenants Study Chart. Thank you for your help. In Christ, Tony F_____ DON WROTE:Hello Tony, We have received several such requests. If you have a printer connected to your computer, feel free to print out as many copies that you would like to use or to share with others. We only ask that you pass them on free of charge. If you are surfing the web with the Microsoft Browser or the Netscape Browser, simply go to the top of the page and click on the File Menu, come down to "print preview," and follow the instructions. Be sure that you choose to print in "landscape" mode rather than "portrait." You can also choose to print in color or in black and white. If you are using some other browser, they probably have some similar way of printing the chart. If for some reason you cannot print the chart, let me know and I will be glad to send you a copy. We have chosen to put this correspondence with you up on the Web for others who might also want a copy of the chart to keep in their study Bible or to use in a Bible Study. Don’t forget to hold our ministry up in your prayers. Love, Don
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| Marc Wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How I pray the Last Trump sounds SOON. If Hal's analysis of Bible Prophecies is correct, then the next time the Mid-east blows it's top (perhaps complete with nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare weapons used by the fanatical Islamic nations against Israel and perhaps the US as well) could be IT!I just hope and pray God will also have a place in Heaven for our beloved pets, too. I can't think of anything more delightful than, after being met by Jesus and our loved ones who have gone before, than to see our beloved dogs and cats running up to leap all over us and lick us and rub against our ankles, tails wagging, barking and meowing joyously. They give us such unconditional love and acceptance! How I pray God will have a place for them as well! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Wrote: TO OUR CYBER VISITORS: Our cyber-buddy Marc was surfing the Web when he came across a site that is apparently predicting that the next major military catastrophe involving Israel could be the final one that ushers in the Lord’s return. And that prediction could be right as could have many other such predictions made in the past few years that have proved those prophets to be wrong. However, one doesn’t have to be a prophet or even an expert on the Bible to be expecting Jesus at anytime—given the events that fill our daily newscasts. In fact, I’m satisfied that there isn’t a born-again believer on the planet that’s read the Bible or heard it faithfully preached who is not expecting Jesus to come for His Church at anytime. The next "storm" in the East may be the final one of our age, or it may not be. But until that time does come, for sure, it is already time for us to love our neighbor as ourselves and to ask the Holy Spirit to guide us daily into the paths that He would have us to walk. (I think that we all can safely predict that our Lord’s return is closer than it once was!) B'Ann Wrote:To Mark and all others out there who have a gentle heart, let me share my thoughts First, God fixed His Heart upon mankind to be the apple of His Eye. I am always impressed when people are kind to animals for indeed the psychiatrist of this world system do look at cruelty to animals as a sign of severe emotional/mental disturbances. This is not what I want to discuss, however. Our job as Christians is to be sure that we are busy sharing the salvation plan of being "born again" with everyone. We are to worry about our fellow man; whether they be good, bad, dirty, perfumed, happy, sad…these are the life forms that we are commanded to help gather for the Kingdom of God. As for the animals, they are God’s creation according to Genesis, and He did declare that whatever He created would never go away, but have a new form. I will just leave the matter of the animals in heaven to Him. Meanwhile, we should not be diverted from sharing the Gospel with those that we will be accountable for saving. Paul was our example when he faithfully witnessed. Some of the people that heard rejected the message, but Paul declared that he had fulfilled his obligation and that their blood would be required at their own hands, not his.
We do not have to do great wondrous things to attract the attention of people such as jerk, roll, screech, dance, or any such manifestations of our "outward flesh" to please God. We need to quietly and to sanely give the message of John 3: 16 to a world in great need and let the Holy Spirit do its work. Some will accept and some will not. This is not our concern. We are just to give all people a chance to accept or reject. Salvation is so simple; as simple as a Babe born in a manger; as simple as a seed. WE HAVE CLOTHED THE SIMPLICITY OF BEING "BORN AGAIN" IN SUCH ELABORATE TRAPPINGS AND RITUALS THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SEARCH THROUGH ALL THE GLITTER TO FIND JESUS. May we remember the humbleness of the manger where Christ was born.
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| Mr. Stark Wrote: Question-Comment: What church are you affiliated with? Thank you for your answer. G. Stark Don Wrote:WHY YOU WROTE? If you are asking our church affiliation so that you can categorize us into some compartment of "good or bad" lest you expose yourself to something bad, I can understand this. For example, if you are associated with some denomination and we say we are associated with the same movement, then you might reason that you could approach our site with a some degree of confidence. However, I can find no Scripture for such categorization. In truth, in the day in which we live wherein every denomination seems to have its fallen shepherds, this approach to determining one's authenticity is rather haphazard. In fact, it has always been an unreliable approach because it is not Scriptural.
DENOMINATIONS? In this passage Paul is teaching the error-proned Corinthians that there should be no divisions (denominations means divisions) amongst those who trust in Christ, and we contend that this still holds true. CRITERION FOR FELLOWSHIP? I understand that by knowing another's church preference, you can know much about how the person believes; but I contend that our Savior never intended for this to be the criterion for fellowship among the saints. In the 15th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, we read of a developing contention in the early church. If you'll recall, for the most part, the first members of the Church were converted Hebrews; for the Lord sent His disciples first to the house of Israel. In fact, the Jewish element was so strong that some of them wanted to make circumcision a prerequisite to being a Christian.
However, the Lord had called Paul to be the Apostle to the Gentiles (The Gentiles response to the Gospel was and has been so great that the church is now often called the Gentile church.) and Paul and his co-laborer Barnabas often found themselves at odds with those who set forth this teaching. This contention prompted a meeting of the apostles and elders of the church wherein Peter set forth the Scriptural criterion for fellowship and presented Paul to the church to set the matter in order.
The Apostle Paul not only fulfilled his office as the "Apostle to the Gentiles," but he also become the most proficient writer of the New Testament, writing thirteen of its 21 epistles (fourteen assuming he also wrote Hebrews). Although Paul's writings are filled with knowledge and understanding, their foundation lies in the following criterion:
This criterion is also found in the writings of the Apostle John.
Then John takes us one step further, not only declaring that the believer has been given the Holy Spirit as a witness/confirmation that we are the Lord's, but that the Spirit is also the believer's instructor in all things of the Lord.
THE MYSTERY This truth explains the denominations/divisions and confusion in the churches; for if all the leaders in the church were taught of the same anointing, they would speak with one mind: i.e., the mind of Christ. If it seems that I am talking in "mysteries," well, that is not my intention; however, Paul tells us that there are "mysteries" in the Word of God.
I hope this answers your question. As a singing/evangelistic family, we have traveled throughout the South and fellowshipped with the Lord's jewels in many different types of churches. Also, when we answered our call from the Lord and put DOWEKNOW up on the web, we did so for the Church, the Body of Christ, and not for any denomination or cult. And we did so understanding the limitations that God has placed upon His truths-- trusting Him to draw people to our site and praying that He will reveal His mysteries to receptive hearts, which we are confident that He will do. If this bears witness with you, then join with us in praying that God will use DOWEKNOW.COM as a tool to reveal His Son to a world that is desperately lost in sin. Yours in Christ, Don Love |
| Erwin Wrote: Dear Don, For your info, it's Revelation, singular, not Revelations plural. Where did you go to school? Don Wrote: Uh oh! Looks like we've hit a nerve. Which "denominational toe" did we step on? What "pet dogma" did we offend? For what it's worth, I graduated from Sequiota Elementary and Pipkin Junior High in Springfield, Mo. I did my high school work in three different high schools--my folks traveled at the time. I got my bachelors of art with a combination of a local community college and Florida State University. I did my masters work in Elementary Education at the University of Florida. I did my seminary work at Emory University. But all of this has little if any to do with the understanding that the Lord has given B'Ann and I in conjunction with our call; for we understand very well that it is not by the power or might of man that the work of Christ is done, but by His Spirit. As to your inquiry, I'm not sure of what "typo" you are referring unless it's the image on our home page that serves as a link to our study in the Book of Revelation. If that's what you are referring to, I chose Revelations (plural) because in my study of Revelation, I constantly refer to other prophetic revelations throughout the Bible so that the study is actually of Biblical Revelations, not just the Book of Revelation. (A very sweet lady pointed out a couple of typos having to do with revelations when we first put our pages up on the web and I thought that we had corrected them all at the time. If you have found another typo, then please point out the mistake and we will gladly correct it.) However, if something we've said has contradicted what you believe, please show us from the Scriptures where we went amiss and we will gladly make any necessary corrections. Maranatha, Don
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