Why is Outreach so Important?

Why is Outreach Important?

Outreach is important to our church because it is important to God and that makes it important to every Christian for the following reasons:
• Outreach was commanded by Christ. Before His ascension, Jesus told the disciples that their impact on the world should start in their city and expand its influence into the entire world (Matthew 28.19; Acts 1:8; 2 Peter 3:9).
• Outreach is necessary for growth. Worship, discipleship, and serving are important, but if you never progress to the next stage of maturity by being involved in outreach, you will be spiritually lacking and incomplete. In life, organisms that cannot reproduce themselves are generally considered immature, unnatural, unhealthy, or damaged. If one is truly walking with God in discipleship, worship, and service, then outreach will be a natural result. All living things have the ability to produce offspring like themselves. A living church is reproducing, while a dying church has no heart or burden for the lost in their community, state, nation and world (Matthew 9:9-12).
• Outreach both glorifies and pleases God. The Bible tells us that doing God’s work is like a tree bearing a lot of fruit. Jesus told us that God is glorified when we bear fruit by reaching out to others (John 15:8; 1 Timothy 2:3–4).
• Outreach models the life of Christ in meeting needs. Jesus taught us that serving others is the same as serving Christ himself (Matthew 25:31–46).
• Outreach is needed for the survival of Christ’s church. Outreach is to a church what birth is to humanity. Without the reproduction of faith the body of Christ would cease to exist (Luke 15:7).
• Outreach is necessary to reach the world. Of the six billion people in our world, two billion live in unreached people groups with no access to the good news about Christ. Two-thirds of the world’s population are lost without Christ and will not know Him unless Christians fulfill their obligation to go, tell and send (Matthew 28.19; Romans 10:14).
• Outreach results in God’s blessing and favor on your life. The Bible is very clear that God intends to bless those whose hearts are focused on reaching out to lost and hurting people. God clearly affirms those who share His passion and heart for reaching out to those who do not know Him (Genesis 12:1–3; Luke 6:38).
• Outreach requires synergy. Loving our community and world will require individual and organizational cooperation. It calls each of us to set aside our individual preferences and combine our time, talents, and treasures (Ecclesiastes 4:9).

Tragic Event Leaves Speculation of Anti Depressants and No Closure.

Several months ago I made a decision to do something that would in fact change my life as I know it now.  I have discussed my frustrations, my anger and also my empathy for those that had became addicted and found no resort or healing.   It is very hard to discuss something like addiction with just anyone.  Most have there own pre conceived notions of what they think they know or understand.  It goes much deeper than that.  This is a subject that I wake up to every morning and go to bed at night with prayers for those I still know that are struggling and battling beyond them selves in order to break away from it.  I made a commitment to go to school.  Not to make the clinical decisions my path way to success but to expose and learn some of the things most don't understand about the addiction process or have mis sighted there understanding.

I have had many of my own personal experiences knowing and being closely associated to those that have let this intrude upon there lives.  It doesn't change one's life but alters the entire family unit and can cause even break ups in family relationships because of the denial or the enabling.  The person that is fighting this demonic force feels powerless over what they can't seem to get a grip on.  This causes desperate feelings of hopelessness and powerless over there lives and still they fight it daily.

I did not see my self in this position 10 years ago, 5 years ago or even 1 year ago.  I struggled in my own mind many times to question God's authority as to why I had been surrounded by so many drug addicted people.  Maybe I was choosing the wrong type of relationships, not something I fully understand but something I have been dealing with most of my adult life and even most of my child hood years.  The first discovery I made and learned to accept was that drugs do not choose social status, cultural statis, or even personalities.  This does not play into how or why addictions are so present in our lives.

Once I was made aware of the deep root of deception to addiction, it became clear that I couldn't let it rest so made a conscience decision to try to bring this out into the open.  I made a commitment to follow this for the rest of my life.  I discovered there were far more innocent lives that were being taken through prescription pills than there were street drugs.  I researched about children 7 and 8 years old hanging themselves after being on high doses of anti depressants.  Anti depressants do cause suicidal thoughts and what alters our minds will in fact alter our quality of life.  People suffer far greater or far less in many areas through out life.  We all react to our surroundings in different ways and we all develop different coping skills.  I wish I could say this loud enough for those to hear me.  There are things we can't even began to tackle alone and one of these things is drug or alcohol addiction.  It is far greater than we are.

I would have to ask most of those reading this blog if they believe in God?  80 percent would agree with me.  I would ask them again, do you believe what the Bible tells us about things?  Most of those on my facebook would also agree to this statement.  I can't stress this enough.  Any thing that alters the mind to control our emotional state is demonic.  Most of you will not finish reading what I have to say but I can't change that I only pray that you might educate yourself in the word of God so you will understand where this originates from.  If you are choosing to follow the reading are you aware of where the word sorcery came from and the full meaning of the word.  It is a regular word you will see in the Bible.  Most believe it to mean devil worshiping or the occult or a form of dark idolatry.  All of these things are true but the huge deception of the word is you truly don't know the meaning.

The word sorcery was translated through English but the Greek word came through the earlier translation of God's word.  Sorcery is the root word for Pharmakeia.  That looks strange and this word in the English form is Pharmacy, this is where the name originated from.  This is a huge pass over, something that is not being taught or dealt with but is the truth and I hope you gain some insight. I have blogged on this several times and I am not denouncing all medications.  The mind altering drugs are an open passage way to Demonic suggestion.  If you knew the statistics of sexual abuse, rape, murder and suicide you would do a double take on this subject.  They are staggering and quiet shocking. 

We live in a society that we feel fairly trusting of our doctors and our mental and physical health and when something goes wrong, we seek medical attention to try to resolve the problems.  Some of these drugs cause permanent brain damage, some are addictive and you are told you can't live without them.  Now the subject of Big Phara.  is being recognized and the truth is coming out on a higher level of awareness now.  Still much hidden for those that are innocent and feel they are getting there medical needs cured or at least dealt with.  Big Phara in the United States is in fact the hugest supply of dangerous drugs in the world and they are making more as I write this article.  They are making billions of dollars off the innocent that are seeking help with there conditions.  I am not going to spend a great deal of time focusing on the details, you can search my blog and will find evidence of the conclusions of what I am addressing now.

After making a decision to go into the den of the Lions, to seek a long life profession of Substance Abuse, I was rattled the first two weeks of school.  A friend from Jr. High had been following my posts and we had been communicating over the course of 1 year and speaking about the problems of his addiction for close to 6 months.  He was struggling very hard with it.  Had beautiful children, a great career, exceptionally bright but suffered a horrible alcohol addiction he fought for many years.  We prayed together several times and I did encourage him.  He went to the doctor for the help to seek for his withdrawals.  They were so eager to give him anti depressants to help him through his alcohol problem.  He attended church and worked hard towards being sober and ask for encouragement through his friends.  I choose not to name this friend out of respect for his family and other close friends of his.  His last words I saw were I love my Church.

It was Thursday morning I woke to make my coffee and wanted to fellowship with a few before studying that day.  On my news feed was RIP and I could see it was my Jr. High class mate and also my brother in Christ.  I followed the links and got information from several of our friends and it was suicide.  He took his own life.  After the last couple of days we tried to make sense of it all and that is so very impossible.  It just didn't make sense.  I drew a deep thought among others about the prescription pills he had gone to the doctor for his alcohol addiction problem.  Like many others that commit suicide, most have had a history with anti deppresants.

Now I am dealing with this situation of one I have talked to intimately about there addiction and trying to lead them to Christ.  Everything seemed like it was working out.  Nothing made sense.  I don't know why but for two days I couldn't get those pills out of my mind.  3 days later we went back to his page and found where he had posted an article by a Mother that had written about her daughter crying out to her facebook friends and then committed suicide.  He had posted this two days before he ended his life.  I didn't see the signs.  I want to ask you again.  Do you believe in God?  Do you believe in the entire Bible and what it says.  We can't save the world or know the outcome of someone else's life, all we can do is try to bear the burden and pray with them and try to be there for them.

  My situation here can't rest, so I must tell you please truly examine the pros and cons of these prescription pills and don't take my word for it, look for the truth yourself but do not think you are doing someone a helpful favor by feeding them mind altering pills.  Just because they are legal and a doctor can prescribe them, don't play God with another's life.  Research what you are doing and if you indeed do fear God and believe his word, know these things are Biblical and these drugs can very much leave someone wide open to demonic suggestion.  Pray you will all take it into consideration.  Prayers for all that read.  You can read my posting on Pharmakeia on my blog site for more information.

I have an author friend and somehow God provided us a way to share our information on the subject.  He writes fiction and just recently completed his second sequel to the book title Pharmakeia.  His name is Dan Calabrese and he is an adult Sunday school teacher that teaches on the precepts of information I provided and his link is 
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dan-Calabrese/220540807187  His book plays out some of the fiction demonstrations of the state of altered minds through the drug culture.
http://youtu.be/9ggtixjhw5w

Sorcery In America-"Addiction Crisis"

Most people don't understand the full meaning of the word sorcery.  Many see warlocks, witches and spells being cast and this word has been misinterpreted for many years.  While these things above are occultist and they are mentioned as well, through experiences of Family and Friends that have been grossly plagued with addiction it led me into a further look at something that was unexplainable and still is today by so many others across our country.Pharmakeia Defined

These things were predicted in the Bible so I will speak from experiences and also give Biblical doctrine on this subject.  I am 45 years old and I have encountered many forms of crippling addictions with people I love and many other relationships in my life.  I searched very hard to understand how this can destroy so many lives and until I discovered the root of this evil, there was no settling in my mind.

When I was 19 years old, my mother and I were discussing some of the truths from the word of God.  This was the very first encounter of truth behind the word sorcery.  She would often share things she learned with me and I would be simply amazed and out of the root of these discussions is where my hunger grew for the word of God and to understand it more.  Some of these discoveries that I learned changed my entire life.

The first thing I learned was the deception behind the word sorcery.  I will give you proof and the true translation of this word.  The English word sorcery paints a picture of a sorcery or witch casting spells on it's victims.  The Greek word, carries a much broader meaning.  And they did not repent of their murders, or their sorcery's or their sexual immorality or their thefts. Rev. 9:21  The word sorcery's in this scripture is pharmakeia.  This is where the English version of the language gives us the word Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical.  Now you can see this takes a total more in depth meaning and a greater understanding of the word.

 The greatest cause for most crimes in America are the illegal drugs.  Most people that are now incarcerated in American prisons are there because of buying or doing hard core drugs.  The crimes that are connected to drug addiction are robberies, break ins, murder and the result of these crimes are linked to stealing money or stealing something to sell for money in order to support an addictive drug habit.

"AMERICA IS AN ADDICTED SOCIETY"

The pharmakeia spirit of sorcery is the chief spirit controlling the United States.  Millions have experimented with and are now addicted to many kinds of drugs including.
Marijuana
LSD
Heroin
Cocaine
Crack Cocaine
Meth
Ecstasy
Prescription Pain Killers
Antidepressants
 Steroids

"THE ADDICTION DEMON"

Millions of Americans are addicted to something.  Illegal drugs and for others, pornography.  Some can't break the addiction to gamble, and some are bound by alcohol.
Statistics on Alcohol
We spend 90 Billion on Alcohol each year
Over 15 million are dependent on alcohol, with five hundred thousand being between the ages of nine and twelve.
43 percent of Americans have been exposed to alcoholism in their families.
Alcohol would be deemed the number one addiction in this country but there are alarming statistics available to show the severity of America's Drug Problem.

1) Among teens age twelve to seventeen , the average age of first trying marijuana was fourteen years old.
2) In 1985 each day five thousand adults in the United States tried cocaine for the first time.
3)Today it is estimated that 25 million have tried cocaine.  Conservative estimates indicate there are over 3 million cocaine addicts in the United States today.
4)Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its use in very serious problem in America.  There are over six hundred thousand people that now need treatment for heroin addiction.

America has been hypnotized by greed and addiction and it is being passed from generation to generation which is the very reason for this spirit at work.  Every sin in our generation is an assignment against the children.  Abortion stops the life of a child.  Drugs can make a man impotent.  Alcohol destroys families units.  Drug money support terrorism through out the world.  The attack is about the future seed.

As proof, we are seeing more child abuse, more molestations, and a greater rise in the numbers of pedophiles than ever before.
GOD IS LOOKING FOR THE INTERCESSORS

So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap  before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found no one.  Ezekiel 22:30
This is a spiritual problem and drug addiction is sorcery and Satan has his hold on these that are addicted.  Treatments have failed and locking people in prisons have failed.  The one and only hope for this cure in our land is knowing that Jesus Christ can heal and has and will deliver these that are afflicted.  The saddest part of it all is that the Lord can't help those that don't believe him.  You will never understand DRUG ADDICTION without understanding the DEMONIC INFLUENCE.

While you are dealing with someone addicted, you can't fix it or lock them away or give them treatment without the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon them to heal them and there is no present help for this until we return with prayers, repentance and taking back our children.  They are suffering and many try to find excuses of why our country is turning to ruins.  THE ADDICTED ARE HURTING AND DYING and there is no present help.  God bless you for reading and I hope you would pray for these.  God is there only clear and present hope.
Please take a look at the link I provided from a dear friend and prayer partner that is a published author.  Dan Calabrese is building a wall and standing in the gap through his fiction writings on these subjects.
Dan Calabrese- Pharmakeia
Dan Calabrese Books-Pharmakeia
God has blessed me greatly through our friendship.  Dan also teaches an adult class on spiritual warfare at his church.  From his web page there is some great information of the subject.  I would encourage you to take a look at these books on his web page.