This same message has been repeated over and over for decades:
the End is near. Be afraid. On any given Christian based television or radio program you will hear preachers exclaiming that “THE END TIMES”
are here in the world and that Jesus Christ is going to come back and take Christians to Heaven any day now. It stirs a sense of fear
in people who do not believe in God, people
who want to know why they feel something is missing in their lives
but don’t know what it is. Pastor John Collins of Love That Cross Ministries
will agree that today’s world is worse than
Sodom and Gomorrah of the Old Testament, but Pastor John feels that God wants the people of the world to ALL have a last chance at the Hope of salvation through Jesus Christ and His resurrection.
Evangetlist Pastor John Collins began his
ministry with the faith and knowledge that God wants people to come back to
Him. Person by
person, church by church, the
world has turned from God. Pastor John
Collins’ mission has been to reach out to people and churches across the United States, one person at a time, one church at a time to bring renewal of faith and hope in God and Jesus Christ. Pastor John Collins knows
that it is not yet the time of Revelation
as written in the Holy Bible, but it is a time of REVIVAL and RENEWAL.
Love That Cross Ministries
began in Wheatland, Wyoming, focusing on the message of
REVIVAL. In his first revival through
Love That Cross Ministries
in Wyoming surrounding communities came together to worship and celebrate the presence of God through
music and witnessing. From a small town in the west, over 600 people attended
the free concert and heard a message of hope and salvation in Wheatland, Wyoming, by
well-known entertainers
from around the country. Pastor John’s message is compelling-there is
STILL Hope for everyone through the salvation by
Jesus Christ and His resurrection. It is selfish for Christians
to pray for Jesus Christ to return
with so many people in the United States and the world not even knowing who God is and who Jesus Christ is. In order to please God, we need to revive FAITH. God wants us back.
A REVIVAL of FAITH does not come overnight. The deterioration of faith
did not happen overnight. Pastor John Collins will tell
you to take a look at the history of the United States.
This is a paraphrased excerpt from Pastor John
Collins’ radio programming: A country
that was founded on the premise of freedom no longer
values those freedoms!! God blessed
the men and women who settled the United States
and established a nation that was based on faith in God!! But now, for more
than 50 years, the United States has increasingly kicked GOD out of everyday life!! In the
1960’s prayer and devotions
were taken out of the public school system because it offended a child!! Today Christian
youth have to seek special permission to worship God publically during school hours! The freedom of
religion and freedom of
speech within schools is NO FREEDOM
at all. The United States court houses have been mandated
across the country to take the Ten
Commandments down from the buildings. The Ten Commandments are the foundation
of justice, sent from GOD who is JUST and FAIR. God has been
banned from courts whose JUSTICE is not based on faith in GOD but on what is POLITICALLY
CORRECT. Faith within families
has been cast aside for more alluring attractions like television programing,
computer games, social media, and technology that are EMPTY of the Word of God and the values that were taught by Jesus Christ. Churches have kicked God out,
putting emphasis on profit, congregation size, and performances of the people
on the pulpit rather than building FAITH and FEEDING THE SOUL to prepare for eternal life,
not the life that we live HERE.
Pastor John’s message in that radio
programming is sadly on target. We as a
country have kicked God out of every
part of our everyday lives. God does not force Himself into our lives; He
waits with Jesus to be invited in. Our society is the way it is because we turned our
back on God. We are getting exactly what
we are asking for from God. Pastor John Collins has
devoted Love That Cross Ministries
to reviving the Word of God and the Hope of Jesus Christ
across the United States. He believes that God wants this country to have a
chance through revival, one person at a time, one church at a time.
Televangelists do preach that there is REVIVAL and RENEWAL crossing
the United States. The REVIVAL that is needed,
according to Pastor John, is one of individual faith.
Without healing ourselves first, we cannot heal a church or a community. We
need to turn ourselves back toward God in order for God to turn our country
around.
We need to come humbly
before God, on our knees, and seek His forgiveness
so that we can REVIVE our country. It isn’t about politics and doing what
won’t offend people, it isn’t about being POLITICALLY CORRECT. Pastor John Collins
and many other preachers will tell you that JESUS
CHRIST was not POLITICALLY
CORRECT!!! Being POLITICALLY
CORRECT is not going to save your soul and it’s not going to save the United
States.
Pastor John Collins
passionately preaches that in order for us to have REVIVAL in our country, we
need to get down on our KNEES in PRAYER.
PRAYER is the way to
REVIVAL. REVIVAL is needed for our salvation.
The only way we are going to turn this country around, one person at a time, is
to seek the SALVATION that faith in GOD and JESUS CHRIST offers.
Pastor John will bluntly tell you it isn’t
about sending money to a televangelist to pray for us. Pastor
John will tell you it isn’t about simply
going to church
and sitting in a pew on any given Sunday.
It IS about REVIVAL of your
faith by getting your knees dirty, by caring about others, by helping the poor,
by walking, living and acting your faith EVERY DAY,
not just on Sunday. We have to come back to the Cross,
and LOVE the Cross for what
was given there for us by a God who is THERE and is WAITING for us to turn back to Him in
REVIVAL and FAITH.
In the words of Pastor John: “BELIEVE THAT!!”
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