You’re invited to a happy Jubilee…
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Journal,
Yup, its that time again. Sunday, March 9, 2008, is our 32nd Homecoming Jubilee. What a venture it has been. It all began in an old storefront building in Boyce. 
Our very first service was on March 9th, our daughter Shana’s second birthday. As for the building, we held it together with bailing wire and bubble gum. 
Today the Christian Challenge setting is in a rustic background of 7 1/2 acres in Pineville, Louisiana. A major plus is that CCI is presently busting at the seams with new members. We are actually running out of space for our School for Christian Workers.
– Bear in mind that Christian Challenge began with a small sign to the right of the front door which read, ‘School for Christian Workers.’ The School is forever the heart of the ministry. —
OK, back to the Jubilee. Its all about wonderful worship, special singing, dramas, anointed preaching, dinner-on-the-grounds, and anything else we can stir in the mix.
All I can say is, you’d better come early to get a good sitting down place! The only table reserved will be for our special out-of-state guests.
Reaching back to our 25th Jubilee…
At the beginning of my stewardship to raise up a training ministry in Central Louisiana, the Lord began to give me songs that were based on the gospel. I early on purposed in my heart to make these songs available to anyone who would like to have them.
At our 25th Jubilee we provided a couple hundred CDs as gifts. The songs are now available on our web site. You can listen to the songs or download them at this site:
http://christianchallenge.org/JubileeCD.html
Note: The motto and the theme song of Christian Challenge is ‘How Beautiful Upon the Mountains.’ The motto of the School for Christian Workers is ‘Preparing Servants for the Nations.’
Christian Challenge has had several hundred believers experience our unique training programs. And it all goes back to our original stewardship of being a mentoring society. What makes our training programs so unique is that they are disciple based, total Scriptural focused, and placed in a format that takes the student right into the spiritual dynamics of the new covenant.
We’ve had more than one of our graduates tell us that they acquired more of a spiritual value in our Disciple’s Heart Class, than they did in two years of Bible college. What makes this even more strange is that our Disciple’s Heart Class only meets once a week for a total of fourteen weeks. Figure that one out. 
But there is a point to be made. I personally designed both our Disciple’s Heart Course, and our Shepherd’s Heart Course, to place in the hearts of our students with what I consider to be the spiritual fabrics of life. Spiritual fabrics speaks of the Lord weaving into our own hearts that which pertains to Himself and to His kingdom.
Note: Our School is not designed to take the place of Bible college or seminary training. Those choices belong to each believer.
The Christian Challenge logo…
Our motto comes from Isaiah 52:7 kjv;
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”
In the Bible, the term ‘mountains’ is often a Hebraism used for kingdoms. With this in mind the logo pretty much tells the story. The three peaks represents the kingdoms of the world. Thus the dove and the Bible speak of the gospel going to all the kingdoms.
In the background you have the ‘rising’ and the ’setting’ sun, which accords with what the Lord said, “That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.” (Isaa45:6 nasb)
OK, how about a short devotional. Let’s call it
Do you know the Master of the wind….
How is your boat of life doing?
Here is where our denomination has to take a back seat. The very heart of the new covenant is the Abba! Father! experience. In this case it doesn’t matter if you are Southern Baptist, United Pentecostal, Assembly of God, Church of God, Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Methodist, Charismatic, and so on. You cannot tell a person who knows the Lord that they don’t know the Lord. The promise of the new covenant is, “They will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them.” (Heb8:11)
To know the Lord is the great wonder of a believer’s life. This is why we can call ‘knowing the Lord’ the crown of a believer’s life. It is in this knowing that the believer is protected from the false prophet. It is this knowing that causes a believer to distinguish false teaching. It is this knowing that gives the believer the deepest of assurance that he or she is in the will of the Lord. It is this ‘knowing’ that is the sign of a person who is truly born again.
Jesus said, “But you do not believe because you are not My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish.” (John 10:26-28)
Jesus says there is a knowing relation between both Him and His sheep. In verse 5, He says of the sheep, “A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
In the new covenant Jesus did not leave it up to religion nor to the efforts of man to establish people in His kingdom. He calls us one by one by one. And He still speaks into our lives in that manner.
Our walk with the Lord is very personal. But for a believer it is a ‘knowing’ walk. Paul said that one of the greatest guiding principles for our walk with the Lord is this kingdom peace that is given believers. This is why he said, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”
He afterwards says, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.” (Col3:12,15)
So once again, it matters not what your religious background may be, the Lord will faithfully guide you on to safer pastures. He has promised to save you.
Why not let Candy Christmas minister this truth to your heart.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hsxv6I0dTEE&feature=related
Hope to see you at Jubilee.
Much love coming your way.
Buddy
