Spring Outreach Meeting Report, Friday, Apr 27, 2007

Approximately 55-60 people attended the service tonight, including some first time visitors.  Different ones contributed to the service with a song or testimony.  We about raised the roof with our singing and could clearly be heard from outside the building.  One person arriving late commented on “hearing the saints sing”.

Bro. Dale spoke on parable of “The Great Supper” found in Luke 14:16-24.  This supper that Jesus was describing is salvation, the opportunity to “eat” or commune with Christ here in this life and then forever after in heaven.  Revelation 3:20 states that Christ will come in and “sup” with us when we open up our heart to Him.  Sadly, just like in the parable, many people today are making excuses why they cannot accept the invitation to this great supper.  They really don’t know what they are missing for God has gone to great lengths to prepare this “meal” for us.  He invites us to Come and Dine.  As the song states:

            Come and dine the master calleth; come and dine
            You can feast at Jesus table any time
            He who fed the multitudes; turned the water into wine
            To the sinner calleth now, Come and dine.

We as Christians have an obligation to go out into the highways of life and find those who need to come to this great feast.  Personal evangelism is very important and each one is needed to seek out those who are in the hedges of life, even to urge them to come to Christ.  Let’s not be so busy “feasting at the master’s table” that we don’t take time to get up from the table and exercise our gifts and calling.  Simply put, let’s not be so busy enjoying our own salvation that we don’t take time to seek out those who are lost.