Unto These Hills

  In searching the history of various Baptist churches in north Georgia, I ran across Union Baptist Church in Hull, Ga. The Union Primitive Baptist Church sits directly across the street. The  churches split over missions and evangelism in the 1800's. Union PB Church closed its doors years ago. Union Baptist is still going strong. The sign on Union Baptist advertises those "unauthorized" activities that the Primitives object to. The Union PB Church is dead, not even having a sign left. The Primitives stress that it is God who "adds to the church". And which church would that be? The Primitives "left things in God's hands", while the Missionary church chose to BE God's hands as the Body of Christ. The pictures speak for themselves. In the first pic we see death, In the second pic we see life and activity. See how desolate the PB church appears when looking at it from the Missionary Baptist church. Let this be a warning to the Missionary Baptists...

  How many times have you heard the phrase “the rich and powerful”? These words always seem to go together. Like everything else though, God sees things the differently than we do. Being rich has no power with God. In Matthew 19:24, Jesus says it’s harder for a rich man to go to heaven, than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. The rich man may have money, but he has no power, at least not with God.    There is a story of a Catholic monk named Thomas Aquinas, who when visiting the Pope was taken to the Vatican treasury. The Pope said, “Look at all the silver and gold we have Thomas! No longer can we say silver and gold have I none!” Thomas looked at the Pope and said “neither can we say rise up and walk.” How perceptive Thomas was. The Catholic church had grown rich and powerful in the eyes of men and kings. But it had no power to save or heal. It had sold out whatever moral and spiritual power it may have had, for riches or wealth, and earthly power.   ...

  When I was a child, the church and my family told me Jesus was the Son of God, and I believed them. They told me He was sinless and I believed them. They told me He died for my sins, and I believed them. They told me He rose from the dead and I believed them. I just took everyone's word for it, but I had never taken God's word for it. Then one day, I decided to believe God instead of everybody else. It was then that I was saved! 2 comments: Stephen Garrett  said... Makes me think of this passage in John 4 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the wo...

  Several years ago I heard about the nation of Nagaland. It is situated between India and Burma, and although a "protectorate" of India, it considers itself a sovereign nation, with its own constitution, laws, police and schools. The people are from more than 18 different tribes, with none of them being related to Indians ethnically and each having their own language. So what makes this place worth writing about? In 1859 Edward Clark was ordained a Baptist minister, after marrying his wife, Mary in 1858. He had an encounter with Christ at age 14, received baptism at a Baptist church, declaring at an early age that he would follow wherever Christ would lead him. In 1871 he went to Nagaland with his wife, after losing their only child, a daughter. They would remain in Nagaland for the rest of their lives. In 1872, Clark baptized 15 converts, the first Christians of any type in Nagaland. The country was made up of indigenous tribes, all of which practiced some sort of animist r...