Our Greatest Gift to Others - Guest Speaker: The Reverend Bill Dages

The Blue Ridge Parkway - "America's Favorite Drive" - is just up NC State Scenic Highway 80 S from Mt. Celo Church.   Two fathers of our church members helped to build this national scenic highway.  The father of one our Elders would get up at 3 or 4 am and walk over the mountains and back home at night to work on this project - a 6-hour daily walk.  I wish every American could experience this breathtaking drive at least once in their lives.

One of the reasons we have committed as a church to this collective Daily Bible Study during 2013 is that we may more clearly understand God's leading in providing a new pastor for our church.  

We hope you will be blessed by this message to the Mt. Celo Church on January 6th, 2013.  The Reverend William (Bill) Dages was our guest speaker.  Bill attended seminary at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Westminister Theological Seminary.  He was born outside of Philadelphia, PA and has been living in NC for 26 years.  He trusted Christ as his Savior in 1969, and worked with Young Life as an Area Director in Wheeling, W V. He holds a full-time job and has served as Assistant Pastor of Story Presbyterian Church in Marion, NC.  In his spare time he loves to spend time with his family, garden, hunt, fish, hike and tell people about the love of Jesus.

We thought his message went perfectly with the New Testament reading for today:  'But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd.  Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."' Matthew 9:36-38.

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MINISTRY OF THE WORD

Bill's handout accompanying the message:

Our Greatest Gift to Others  (Romans 10 and John 3:16)

A.  The Messenger

B.  The Method

C.  The Message

Diagnostic Questions:

1) Have you come to the place in your spiritual life, where, if you were to die tonight, you would know for certain that you have eternal life?

2) If you were to die tonight and you were to stand before God, and he were to ask you, "Why should I let you into My heaven"?...What would you say?

The Gospel... John 3:16

(For) God                    so Loved                 the World

(that) He                          gave           His only begotten Son

That Whosoever         believes                 in Him

Will not perish               but has                Everlasting life

Suggested Reading List:

The Gospel and Personal Evangelism  by Mark Dever

A Faith Worth Sharing by C. John Miller

The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert E. Coleman

Evangelism Explosion by James Kennedy

The Divine Conquest by A. W. Tozer

Let the Nations be Glad by John Piper

Praying Hope by Francis A. McGaw

God's Way of Peace by Horatius Bonar

Not the Way Its Supposed to Be by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp