Christian based television or radio programs have many preachers exclaiming that “THE END TIMES” are here in the world and
that Jesus
Christ is going to come back on a cloud 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.
This is the same message that has been repeated over and over for
decades: the End is near. Evangelist 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. 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, says Pastor John Collins.
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 Wyoming,
focusing on the message
of REVIVAL. In his first revival
through Love
That Cross Ministries in Wyoming
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.
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 where 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 Collins: “BELIEVE THAT!!”
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