This is it! The big week! What we have all been waiting for! The Tulsa Workshop!
I've already received a letter complaining of the name change; that Soul Winning has been removed.
Be encouraged, while the words Soul and Winning are legally removed from the title, the emphasis has not been lifted a gnat's size. Consider the new name, The Tulsa Workshop (Inspiring the Church to See the World with the Eyes of Jesus). What could be more international than "World", more motivational to go than "Inspiring" and more sensitive to lost souls than "the Eyes of Jesus"?
Through the years I receive many complaints that "Soul Winning" or "Evangelism" isn't listed in more classes. There is a reason. Everything we do, my opinion, is for the purpose of soul winning; I am an evangelist and evangelism is how I think.
My three kids are in ministry; Wendy is a secretary for the North Atlanta Church of Christ, Dusty is the pulpit guy at the University Church in Conway, Arkansas, and Tim is a missionary in Guadalajara. What would you guess was one of the greatest impacts in their young upbringing at the workshop? Acappella concerts!
Sermons from Cline Paden and Mid McKnight? Soul winning classes at the workshop by Jimmy Allen or Charles Hodge? No, the Acappella concerts and church camps and sleepovers and stuff teens do. But the body combined in all of its actions and events count as grooming all of our people to be soul winners.
The lectures at ACU and Pepperdine are soul winning events while little label signals such. The refreshment of the Word, worship, and fellowship at these places are very much evangelistic and soul winning.
So this is the week of workshop! Let not your hearts be troubled. Good things will go on from children's Bible Hour, to classes for the deaf, to motivational sermons by hyper preachers....and all of it will contribute to the winning of wonderful people presently buried in darkness.
This is a privileged week and I am thrilled, still, to be a part of an event that has both Jesus and the world in mind.
4 comments:
Terry, it's so sad that you have to defend yourself for doing God's work. Be encouraged! God knows and understands. I'm going to miss the Tulsa Workshop this year for the first time in several years. But don't worry, it's not because of the name change. I'll be back soon. God bless! I'll be praying for everything that goes on in Tulsa this week!
Terry, thanks for posting this! I, too, am excited about the week of Workshop, regardless of the name. Like your children, I'm mostly excited about the Acappella concert! I hope to say hi to you Friday or Saturday sometime. Until then, enjoy today, tomorrow, and the rest of the days God grants us. Blessings, Brother!
the snow made its way to tulsa before the festivities this year! hope to bump into you this week. thanks for all that you have done over the years and for all that you will do in the future. memorial has a supreme motivation in hosting and supporting this soul winning venture and we greatly appreciate every minute we spend in worship with all of you. be blessed
I can't wait!
Glory to God!
Post a Comment