My Eye Is Set On Him

I meant to write a post last Sunday or Monday about the Evangelism Rally in Nashville last week. I meant to tell you that many of us felt the Spirit of God was really with us all that day, in spite of the fact attendance was affected by a major annual event at the academy only a few miles north of Madison Campus. My colleagues, Drs. Ed Schmidt and Errol McLean did a terrific job teaching and preaching.

Had I written the blog as hoped, I would have told you that we made a spontaneous decision to play "The Window" DVD. This is a 30-minute enactment of a couple who decide to reach out to their neighbors with the love of Jesus, and how they go about it. It is well done, and it's very instructive. The original was made in Spanish, under the watchful eye of evangelist extraordinaire Alejandro Bullon, but the version dubbed in English is not bad at all. If you ever get a hold of it, you should play that at church one Sabbath.

So, here we are now, with days accelerating at neck-breaking speed, in view of the upcoming Creation series. We have yet a great deal to do, and our first test run, as it were, will be when we present it at the Beaumont Church in Southern California, April 14-17. Dr Tim Standish, from GRI, and I are working hard at getting this done, and so are the graphic artists helping us put the PPT together.

Please pray for this Creation mini-series. This will be the first uplink of the three, and it's the one I've never done before. So much rides on it! Dealing with the subject is a sensitive issue. Knowing exactly what and how to say what we must in only 80 minutes each night is a great challenge. We'll need to be basic and simple for people without scientific backgrounds, and sufficiently erudite and cutting-edge to the few scientists or students of science completely immersed in naturalistic philosophy. We can't be too churchy but must seek to appeal to the heart at the same time. We have a limited time to deal with huge questions, and the risk is always there to raise more questions than you'll end up answering. And to top all this off I'm certainly no scientist!

This is risky, but it begs to be done. Our eyes are set on Him. Pray earnestly that the Creator Himself will lead our feeble attempts to explain inponderable subjects that reflect on the God of the universe.

And pray for me, personally. The enemy of my soul does not seem to use a large array of ways to make me fall, but he well knows the handful of things that seem to always work against me. My difficulty is accentuated with the workload and the burden--there simply is no time to take a breadth. And when I do, my time is not spent for maximum recreation of mind and soul. Oh, how I long for the day my love for Jesus will ALWAYS supercede my love for anything else in this world!

One last point of interest. As of this morning, the website shows 484 churches registered. This is wonderful news, for we hoped for at least 500 churches total. However, the website operator did an audit of each registration a couple of days ago and found about 60 duplicates, so that means we have more like 425 of them. The NET Manual, the Implementation DVD, three copies of Adventism's Greatest Need, plus other resources are being sent to all these Early Bird signers (deadline: April 1) next week. We pray all these resources will be a blessing to each of the churches.

Courage to all. Let's keep our eye on Jesus.

"Now behold [said king Jehosaphat], the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir . . . [are] coming

to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.

O our God, will You not judge them?

For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You."

2 Chronicles 20:10-12