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SERVING A RISEN SAVIOR
One of my favorite great hymns of the faith is “He Lives.” With a few word changes I have made the first verse and chorus of the song says, “I serve a risen Savior, He’s in the world today; I know that He is living no matter what others may say; I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer, and anytime I need Him He’s always here. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today; He walks with me and talks with me along each step of life’s way; He lives, He lives, His salvation to impart; You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.”
The one major reason I believe in Jesus Christ as the Risen Savior, whose salvation (forgiveness of sins and eternal life in heaven) He makes possible for everyone, is because He lives in my heart. Well, glory!
WILL GIVE IT ONE MORE MONTH IN NASHVILLE
A Fresh Start has aired in Nashville since the third week of January at 6:00 p.m. on Sundays. A financial principle Back To The Basics Ministries follows is that to stay on the air in a TV market we need to have enough donations come in from that area to cover airing costs. That is not the case with Nashville right now.
We will give a TV market a try when we have had extra funds to come into the ministry just to see if it is an area to expand to. We did that in getting on the air in Memphis and aired the program for about a year and a half, then canceled the program when we could not cover air time costs from local donors. A few months later some money was donated to get us back on the air in Memphis and we did so for a few months. Then for the same reasons as before we discontinued the program in Memphis. Now we have been back on the air in Memphis since last August. We are getting about half the funds needed, via local monthly donors in Memphis, for airing A Fresh Start. I will make a push soon to see if we can raise the other funds needed to continue airing A Fresh Start on WTWV in Memphis. Since day one we have had enough funds donated monthly in the Knoxville area to cover the costs of airing A Fresh Start on WVLR Knoxville. Praise the Lord! Enough funds have also come in from Knoxville area donors to allow us to produce 12 to 20 new programs per year.
I have mentioned before that the cause of Christianity advancing is not dependent on the airing of A Fresh Start. There are thousands of churches/ministries proclaiming the Gospel, and many ministers on television who are more known than me. But, a television ministry is something I am able to do because of an ability the Lord has helped me to develop because He enabled me and equipped me to do it, and I feel that if I do not seek to do it, at this point in my life, I am not using my gifts, talents, and abilities to the glory of God as I should. The television program is also a way to do my part in fulfilling the Lord’s Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20) beyond the walls of the local church I pastor.
I will continually look for new ways and areas through which to reach as many people as possible for Christ, and a television program is one of the most expedient and effective ways to do that in this critical time in history. So, with Nashville being the Number One TV market in Tennessee and in the Top 30 in the country, I felt we needed to test it out to see if A Fresh Start could have a spiritual impact upon the lives of people there. If we are unable to continue the program in Nashville, we will have given it shot, and we can try it again down the road. So, until The Rapture, Back To The Basics Ministries will keep seeking to win the lost to salvation and help to disciple Christians in the basic fundamentals of the faith and to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).
NEXT MONTH I WILL ADDRESS WHY KNOXVILLE, MEMPHIS, AND NASHVILLE FOR AIRING A FRESH START. (Hint: all three cities are tourist destinations)
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Thank you for your financial support, prayers, and friendship,
Bro. Bobby Mullins