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Pastor Patrick Jensen brings us today's message, "The +1 Strategy"
Luke 15:1-7 NKJV
A plus one strategy begins by eating with sinners
Luke 15:1-2
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O Kate, I have found my destiny! These are the people for whose salvation I have been longing all these years. As I passed by the doors of the flaming gin-palaces tonight, I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ear, “Where can you go and find such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labors?” And there and then in my soul I offered myself and you and the children up to this great work. These people shall be our people, and they shall have our God for their God.
William Booth
A plus one strategy must be accompanied by an intentional investigation
Luke 15:4)
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To go down to the perishing crowds is your duty. Your happiness henceforth will consist in sharing their misery, your ease in sharing their pain, your crown in bearing their cross, and your heaven in going to the very jaws of hell to rescue them. What will you do?
William Booth
The plus one strategy ends with massive celebration
Luke 15:5-7
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A few minutes before, I was about as near eternal perdition as one gets. I had one foot over the brink and was trying to get the other one over…I thought no human being had anything to do with it, but I had forgotten my mother’s prayers, and I afterwards learned that one of my college classmates had chosen me as one to pray for until I was saved. Oh the power of prayer to reach down, down, down, where hope itself seems vain, and lift men and women up, up, up into fellowship with and likeness to God.
R.A. Torrey