CRITERION MISSION INDIA

A High level overview of the difference between the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Religion . Religion is man-made !   The Gospel is God-given ! Religion is what man does for God !   The Gospel is what God does for man ! Religion is man's search for God ! The Gospel is God's search for man ! Religion is adherence to a system ! The Gospel is devotion to a person ! Religion is after membership ! The Gospel is after a relationship ! Religion places emphasis upon doing ! The Gospel places emphasis on being ! Religion says try !   The Gospel says trust ! Religion says do right to get right ! The Gospel says righteousness without works !   Religion strives for outer transformation !    The Gospel gives an inner transformation! Religion is good views ! The Gospel is good news !   Religion whitewashes ! The Gospel washes white ! Religion changes with the times ! The ...

I came upon an outcropping of rocks,  and as I sat on the highest rock to rest and look out over the valley, I saw a nest in the branches of a tree. The young birds in the nest were crying noisily. Then I saw how the mother bird returned with food for her young ones. When they heard the sound of her wings and felt her presence nearby, they cried all the more loudly and opened their beaks wide. But after the mother bird fed them and flew away again, they were quiet. Climbing down to look more closely, I saw that the newly hatched birds had not yet opened their eyes. Without even being able to see their mother, they opened their beaks and begged for nourishment whenever she approached.  These tiny birds did not say: “We will not open our beaks until we can see our mother clearly and also see what kind of food she offers. Perhaps it is not our mother at all but instead some dangerous enemy. And who knows if it is proper nourishment or some kind of poison that is being fed t...

O God of burning cleansing flame: Send the fire! Your blood-bought gift today we claim: Send the fire today! Look down and see this waiting host,  And send the promised Holy Ghost;   We need another Pentecost!  Send the fire today! Send the fire today! God of Elijah, hear our cry: Send the fire! And make us fit to live or die: Send the fire today!  To burn up every trace of sin, To bring the light and glory in, The revolution now begin!  Send the fire today! Send the fire today! It’s fire we want, for fire we plead: Send the fire!  The fire will meet our every need: Send the fire today!  For strength to always do what’s right,  For grace to conquer in the fight, For power to walk the world in white:  Send the fire today! Send the fire today! To make our weak hearts strong and brave: Send the fire!  To live, a dying world to save: Send the fire today!  Oh, see us on Your altar lay, We g...