Our Gospel Meeting

Our gospel meeting is here! We are so glad to have brother Cory Waddell with us this week. We welcome Cory and his family to our community. As members of the Naff Avenue congregation, what do we need to be doing to support our meeting?

First, we need to be praying every day. We need to pray Cory preaches the best sermons of his life. Please pray Cory will recall what he has prepared to speak and that he will speak boldly as the Lord desires and passionately with fervor and vigor. Christians, please pray all in the audience will listen with attentive and good hearts. We need to pray souls will be saved and folks we know who have fallen away, will be restored. “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5:16b).

Second, we need to support this meeting with our attendance. I have attended meetings where visitors outnumber members in attendance. We dearly love those visiting, but where are the members? Let us fill this building to where we must bring chairs in to accommodate the audience as we hear the Lord’s word proclaimed. “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:24,25).

Third, we need to be planting seeds. We need to be calling, visiting, and inviting our friends, neighbors, coworkers, school friends to our meeting. Eighty percent cent of the time a visitor attends a congregation is because someone cared enough to invite him or her. Let us be sure and reach out to our former members who are out of service as well.

This meeting can be awesome and a blessing to all, but a lot depends on you and me. Are we willing to commit to these simple steps?

Stay true to the Word,

Brother Travis