Dateline: 03.24.09
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SoulWinning Seminar - Cancelled.
From **** Home Missions: We had already communicated previously that the SoulWinning Seminar is cancelled due to the speaker having slipped and fallen hard on some ice, requiring surgery. Several calls have come in about this, so we are resending the message. Please help us spread the word. We hope to reschedule this event sometime in the future.
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If soul winning was my passion, I would not have cancelled the seminar. Even if the speaker cancelled, the least one could do is hold a prayer session and pray for souls. It made me sick that a decision was made to cancel a soulwinning seminar because the headline act wasn't able to attend.
This decision to cancel the soulwinning seminar shows the lack of vision in the Home Missions department. Truth be known, they have no idea how to produce exponential results without smoke and mirrors and bait and switch.
My sister attends the same church as the scheduled speaker. We talked about his sucess. She says his passion is soulwinning. He burns with a fire so hot it attracts people to him like a moth is drawn to a flame. You can't teach that type of passion in a 2 hour seminar. You have to do it.
What is lacking is passion for souls. Some people are too busy being fake to have a passion for winning the lost. People see that and are turned off by the phoniness.
The by product of passion is what happened to our church. Staff meeting went a little long Sunday morning because God begin to move in a mighty way. We were late starting church. When we opened the doors, people were lined up almost a block to get in. Rough estimation, 70% are brand new people. They feel the fire. They sense the passion. They want what we have.
I would like to think whoever was responsible for cancelling the soulwinning seminar would be man enough to step down. One needs to walk away if all they can do is run a dog and pony show. It may look good for a while, but eventually the mess the dog and pony show leaves has to be disposed of.
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