Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter by chapter verse by

study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues

his message, the fruit of the gospel, as we pick up in Colossians chapter 1, verse 5. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck. i thoroughly disagree with those who say well

the holy spirit was given in the beginning to give them a start but once they got organized

they no longer needed the holy spirit's power and so god withdrew that power to let us go now on our own steam, so to speak, with our own genius, and with our seminaries and all.

With all that we have today, we are failing to get the gospel into all the world.

A smaller percentage of people in the world know of Jesus Christ today

than did know of him 30 years ago.

In fact, with the rate of the population growth explosion in the world,

and with the rate by which the gospel is being preached in the world,

the declining rate, if things continue status quo, by the year 2021, only 5% of the people in the world will have heard of Jesus Christ.

With all of our seminaries and radios and TVs and programs and wisdom and devices and schemes

and methods, it's a real indictment against the church.

It does say much for the Holy Spirit and for his ability and power.

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