March 2011

"Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul." - Ezekiel 3:19 NKJV

This is a powerful message the Church needs to hear. We as believers need to warn people that do not have a personal relationship with Jesus as their Lord and Savior, to repent with asking for forgiveness and trust in Jesus or the will be eternally separated from God.

"Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul." - Ezekiel 3:21 NKJV

I went downtown on St. Patrick's Day to do just that, and warn sinners about the judgment to come on my lunch break. I felt so nervous and prayed the whole way there, just knowing that there would be divine encounters. As I proceeded to hand out ice breakers (gospel tracts are for people not places) to people I could feel the Lord really helping me get out of my comfort zone. As mobs of people dressed in green approached it was interesting in the different responses I got. One group would say "thanks", another would yell out"what the heck is this"?

"Him [Jesus] we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus." - Colossians 1:28 NKJV

I got into a conversion with a man who wanted to know what I was handing out, and as I gave him one he asked what it was. Well I told him what I tell people when they ask, its a Gospel tract sir. He didn't what what that was, so I told him the Gospel is good news on how you can get to Heaven. He smiled but still wanted to know that a tract was.

That made me laugh a little bit because I don't think I had ever been asked that question before. I explained to him that it's information, and information on how he can get to Heaven. Then he said he already knew of a way to get to Heaven, but was open to another. (There is only one way... Jesus said it in John 14:6) How interesting, he took the ice breaker (gospel tracts are for people not places) and as he turned to walk away he told me that he would read it and thanked me. And here I was really hoping it would be pouring rain just to keep everyone away from the bars and got to plant a seed.

"Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears." - Acts 20:31 NKJV

A man who was wearing a green top hat walked by me and it looked like he was carrying a Bible with one of those Bible cases enclosing it. Before he could step off the street and into a coffee joint I handed him a ice breaker (gospel tracts are for people not places) and as he start to read it he put his head down into a sluggish stance. I could tell something wasn't right, and as he walked away not even going into the coffee shop I begin to pray for him too. Lets keep praying for the Gospel to radically impact this town for Jesus Christ.

"I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you." - 1 Corinthians 4:14 NKJV

Check out this awesome poster, it is to remind us of our sobering task to "save others by snatching them from the fire," as written in Jude 1:22-24.

Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,

Tim Molter

August 2010

The world today is in a mad pursuit for happiness, but there's a vast difference between joy and happiness. Many will look like they have joy, but it's only surface deep, it never becomes a well of living water springing up within them. You see happiness is an experience of the emotions, where true joy is an experience of the Spirit. The Lord doesn't promise us happiness, but He does promises abiding joy. And the Lord wants your joy to be full (1 John 1:4).

Joy and Gladness in the Greek is 'chara' which means: the joy received from you, or also the cause or occasion of joy (including persons who are one's joy).

Luke 15:7

"I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

The natural response to finding that which is lost is rejoicing, and as I witness with the Gospel for Chico team, High School students from our Church, and other ambassadors in the ministry of the gospel, I have met people who passionately glorify God in their evangelistic efforts. This in return fuels a desire in me to not only join them in the effort, but to also encourage and equip others to serve Christ through evangelism.

There are a growing number of Christians who share their faith on a regular basis. However, I know that there can and should be more. My burden is for more to rise up and echo the call of the Great Commission by consistently sharing their faith, and their joy to be full.

Luke 15:10

"Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

If your not sharing the Gospel your missing out on the best joy you can in rejoicing with all of Heaven. God can be so glorified in and through you when you are obedient to proclaim the Gospel. Just ask Him to give you spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear the lost, hell-bound people all around you.

It was the “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Spurgeon, who said these sobering words: “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that.” A Christian cannot be unconcerned about the salvation of the lost.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, and the characteristic of love is joy. Witnessing should be a way of life, for every Christian. It is something you do if you are truly born again. It is like breathing air. You shouldn’t even have to think about it. Witnessing is part of who you are in Christ.

Your passion should be to make Him known. In doing so, you will try to reach the lost with the Gospel by whatever means necessary, regardless of the season of life in which you find yourself.

Matthew 25:21

"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

I was so encouraged when I watched this video about Deborah Drapper a homeschooled (14 year old) Christian girl who is unlike most teenagers. She loves to share her faith. She has a clear understanding that time is short here on earth and that eternity is forever.



I hope that 6 minute video brought you some joy. Ray Comfort said "Do you ever share your faith and see little or no fruit for your labors? You long to see at least one person come to Christ. If it hasn't yet happened, don't let discouragement quench your zeal... The Bible promises that they that sow in tears shall reap in joy (Psalm 126:5).

If you don't reap from your labors in this life, you will certainly reap in the next. John Wesley said to his preachers, "You have nothing to do but to win souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work." Spend your time planting the seed of the Word of God in the hearts of men and women, and God will bring fruit in His time."

May He burden your heart for the lost. See that the harvest is plentiful but the labors are few (Matthew 9:36-38)!

Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter

May 2010

New Video on Thursday Night Downtown Market Outreach


Check it out and Go Serve Your King!

George MacLeod was a great preacher who, hundreds of years ago, faithfully obeyed the Great Commission. He exalted Jesus Christ in his preaching and wasn't afraid to preach the blood of the cross.

He said, "I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroad, so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek ... at the kind of a place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died for. And that is what He died about. That is where church-men ought to be and what church-men ought to be about."

Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter

March 2010

Wow March went right on by, where does all the time go? This past month we got to visit our local High Schools during a program called 'Every 15 Minutes' where the idea of of the program is to use drama and fear to show teens the potentially lethal consequences of drinking and driving. We were able to meet pass out hundreds of Gospel tracts from the sidewalk at both schools. The goal of the "Every 15 minutes" program is to challenge students to not drink and drive. However we got to hand out Gospel tracts and declare what is going to happen to them on the other side if they are not right with Jesus Christ. If there was ever a time to declare to the youth of this generation about God it is now.

On the campus they have a mock funeral service and also there is a student who pretends to be the "Grim Reaper"  tagging people and also there is a staged car accident on campus. There is a statistic that none of us can beat and that is that 10 out of 10 people die.We were able to meet pass out hundreds of Gospel tracts from the sidewalk at both schools. The kids were able to watch a dramatization of what happens as police, firefighters, medics and a funeral home respond to a two-vehicle head-on collision, with even a chaplain assisting as they give the parents a fake death certificate of their child. The students watched as the 'dead' person was zipped into a body bag and placed in a hearse for the trip to the mortuary.

We were able to pass out over 400 Gospel tracts in the 2 days during what was most of our lunch breaks, and had a blast. At Chico High School one girl was waiting for her friends to catch up and so we were able to talk and I had asked her if she knew the Lord. She said kind of, which is an interesting answer. I then asked her if she was 'Born-Again', to which she responded that she did not. She told me that she had tried to read the Bible once but it didn't make sense to her.

I was able to talk to her about sin and how unless we see our sin for what it is we will never see our need for a savior. I got to plant a seed that day and also encouraged her to read the Gospel of John, which was written that we would know God. It was a great time and we continue to pray for the High School kids. Here is a short video that shows some of the outreach.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_TCtBP-Y-w

Also in March I got to go downtown on St. Patrick's day, where I went with a good friend to hand out tracts and to get into conversations with people on the street. It was an exciting time, and we were able to pass out over 200 Gospel tracts within an hour. The spiritual darkness there was unbelievable. So many people hurting who where trying to drink away their problems. However there were also people who were looking for truth, and stopped to read the tract. When there is great darkness it can become very easy for a believer’s light to shine very brightly.

I got to talk to a man who wanted to talk, and he even stopped and then put down his things to see what we were about. He was wanting to know what proof we had for Christianity, and had a lot of very in-depth questions about God. He hadn't really thought about the eternal side of life, but did get a degree studying the world religions. About halfway through the conversation, he told me that was "born-again" once but now considered it all to be rubbish.

I then asked him if he had repented and trusted in Jesus, but immediately he told me that he didn't understand why Jesus was the only way. I was able to explain to him that the Bible speaks of false conversion, in which many receive the Word with joy and gladness, but when tribulation, temptation, and persecution comes that they then fall away.

I was able to take him through a few of Ten Commandments, and then into the message of the cross, and the necessity of repentance and faith in the Savior. We had a great conversation and I was even able to leave him with a Why Christianity? Gospel tract which he said he would read, as he loves to read. I didn't want to end things on an awkward note, so I shook his hand and thanked him once again for talking to me.

From there we went toward more of the bar section of downtown and got into a conversation with another guy who considered himself to be spiritual but not religious. So we started talking and asked him a few questions, and even when through a few of the Ten Commandments as well. He had admitted to lying, stealing, and looking with lust. That's when the conversation got strange.

You see he had told us that he didn't lust after women but after men, and that the desires that were within him were completely normal. In fact he even told us that he embraced his flaws which he considered sin. I didn't want to loose this guys so I brought up civil court, and that this excuse would not work on Judgment Day. It is human nature to try, but it doesn’t work with God.

I was able to tell him that it is natural for all of us to desire sin and to be tempted to do things that God says are wrong. From there we talked about absolute truth vs. relative truth, and after asking him if what Hitler did was wrong he agreed that there must be some absolute truth. However, he didn't want to talk much further or take a tract from us. We still thanked him for his time and shook his hand before we left.

We were downtown again to the Saturday morning farmers market, and we were able to pass out a hundreds of tracts and had some very interesting conversations. I had a lady walk by and just grab a tract right out of my hand, and as she did so she said "I''ll take one", and she did. There are so many people searching for answers and for truth in this life. We must not fail to tell this world about Jesus and we must do everything we can to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We know that approximately 150,000 people will die today, and our hearts break for those who will slip form this life into an eternity of torment in Hell because they died in their sins. More importantly, we are consumed with concern for those sill on earth who have not yet trusted in Christ for their salvation. So together we must do all that we can to reach the lost. We must practice sharing our faith in order to become good at it, so why not start today?

Does anybody outside of your church know that your a Christian?

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Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter

November 2009

November was a very interesting month for me, and allowed me to submit to God in all areas of my life declaring him as the Leader. I had the privilege to lead an 8-week Bible study on evangelism at my church and use the Way of the Master basic training videos to show some real one-to-one witnessing. It was such a great time to grow closer to the Lord even in the midst of my constant fear of public speaking.

Matthew 9:37-38 says "Then said he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." And I was so blessed to be able to see God raise up some more workers for His kingdom and see them pass out tracts, and get into some really good conversations with strangers. It was the 'Prince of Preachers', Charles Spurgeon, who said the words, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that."

Did you know that an evangelist is any Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism? This is someone who preaches the Gospel, who is spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 4:5 says "But watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry." So, this is the name given to all believers who herald the message of salvation through Christ.

After America celebrated Thanksgiving (for the Christian, every day should be a day of thanksgiving) my Dad and Stepmother stayed an extra week and I got to hand out tracts with them at the Saturday morning market. I was so blessed to be with my Dad and I had a great time as we passed out Gospel tracts to strangers. We all went for a walk too and I got to give a pocket Bible to a lady who is going through a divorce, and my wife and stepmother both got to pray for her also. Please take the time to pray with people, it means to so much to them.

At the Saturday morning market I got to pass out about 200 Gospel tracts, and take some new believers out to witness. I got to encourage a few guys who stated they were believers, and even got to pray for a girl who was fighting her way through cancer. Remember that you have the sobering responsibility of speaking to other peoples' loved ones. Luke 6:46 says "And why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" The love of God in us will motivate us to seek and save that which is lost.

I got to help out with a project called "Origin in to Schools" on the University campus.We passed out one-thousand books of Darwin's "Origin of Species" with a special introduction on Intelligent Design and the Gospel.On that day also hundreds of pocket Bibles were passed out thanks to the Gideons being on campus too and we got to hand out about a thousand Gospel tracts also. A small group of us went downtown to do some more witnessing at lunch time.



I had several great conversations, but I think my most interesting one was with a displaced individual who was a believer. He wanted some Gospel tracts to give out to others, and since then I've run into him three other times, and been able to give him hundreds of Gospel tracts. I got to witness him pass them out to each vendor at the Saturday morning market one booth owner at a time.We should even be thankful in the midst of problems. The Apostle Paul said, "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." (2 Corinthians 7:4). He knew that God was working all things together for his good, even though he was going through trials (Romans 8:28).

Please remember that there is no task more important than to be entrusted with the Gospel of Salvation and to be working with God for the eternal well-being of dying humanity. It was Charles Finney the minister who became an important figure in the Second Great Awakening who said "If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian."

Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter