DAILY DEVOTIONAL MONDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2023

(Acts 20:35)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, I know that it is Your desire that ALL come to repentance, that none be lost. Please give me a passion for souls. Help me to look at each person and never forget that they are created in Your image, that one day they will die, and they have an eternal soul. Take away any fear, any hesitancy, to share the hope we have in Jesus with those people you bring into my life. Let me never forget that without Jesus, their soul will be lost for all eternity and do my part to share with them how they can have everlasting life through faith in Jesus who died for their sins. It is in the name of Jesus I pray…AMEN! *Salvation message from Ground Zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZ9oaqJNJg

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program with this very issue. I would encourage you to click the link and you can forward the video to the 48:10 mark to hear my commentary (some called it a mini-sermon) on this important issue. Liveprayer TV 2/10/23: https://www.facebook.com/liveprayer/videos/1319380305461098/

The $100 million dollar theologically bogus ad campaign. After 30 years on the front lines of the ministry, I have seen it all both from this lost world and from those who purport to be on the side of Christ. The interesting things is nothing is new. Throughout Paul’s letters in the New Testament are the warnings about those who want to see Christianity wiped out as well as the theological error from within the church. While I would normally be willing to be more gentle in my rebuke of this latest Christian effort to reach people for Christ, I simply can’t since the people who put this $100 million dollar campaign together are far too mature and sophisticated and those who funded it are also f! ar too
mature and sophisticated to not understand these types of outreaches ultimately end up harming the cause of Christ more than they help.

What I am referring to is the “He Gets Us” ad campaign that will spend $20 million on an ad in the Super Bowl, and the other $80 million on a TV, radio, internet, and billboard ad campaign around the country. Let me begin up front with a critical factoid you must know. The standard commission rate to book advertising is 15%. The organizer of this campaign is Haven, a Grand Haven, Michigan marketing company. So you need to understand up front Haven looks to make at least $15 MILLION in commission alone from this effort. Funding for this campaign is coming from the Green Family who owns Hobby Lobby who are long-time donors to Christian causes. Another major donor is the Kansas-based nonprofit Servant Foundation. Other donors have chosen to remain anonymous.

Normally, the problem with these type of campaigns is that usually do! a very poor
job of follow-up, thus minimizing potential results. However, the main problem with this campaign is the premise they start from. They state the goal is to “”challenge the negative views on Christianity.” On the surface, that sounds like a noble and worthwhile goal but there is one HUGE glaring problem. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE NEGATIVE VIEWS ON CHRISTIANITY BY THOSE WHO HAVE REJECTED CHRIST AND BIBLICAL TRUTH! People who reject the Bible and faith in Jesus DO NOT WANT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR BELIEFS AND ACTIONS! So those people will ALWAYS have a negative view on Christianity.

Here is why this is a foolish effort for those who created this campaign (unless they were just trying to make money) and those funding it, and why as mature and sophisticated Believers they must be called out. In order to try and achieve their goal of “changing the negative views on Christianity,” THEY HAVE TO PRESENT COMPROMISED TRUTH AND A WATERED DOWN GOSPEL! Sadly,! that is EXACTLY
what they have done! Their ad campaign is highly polished, beautifully produced, however the content is gross theological error! One of the ad campaigns that will air on the Super Bowl equates Jesus with an illegal alien. JESUS WAS NEVER AT ANY TIME AN ILLEGAL ALIEN!

This goes back to the LIE I deal with every Christmas when Mary and Joseph took Jesus to Egypt to avoid him being killed by Herod. EGYPT WAS PART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THUS MARY, JOSEPH, AND JESUS WERE NOT THERE ILLEGALLY!!! Another portion of the ad campaign deals with the tacit approval of the LGBTQ lifestyle and agenda. MORE PURE THEOLOGICAL LIES!!! This Michigan marketing firm and those high profile donors have no excuse for pushing such watered down, theologically incorrect lies to the masses!!!

Over the years I have railed against various marketing strategies to attract people to church. The “Seeker” movement started in the late 80s in suburban Chicago at Willow Creek Church by Bill Hybels.! The “Purpose
Driven” movement started by Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in California. The “prosperity gospel” movement with its’ roots in Christian TV with people like Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, TD Jakes, and a host of other “prosperity pimps!” These were all man-made marketing campaigns to get non-Christians into the church.

Listen, I LOVE those who think out of the box, those who find creative ways to get people to church, but here is the problem. ONCE THEY ARE IN CHURCH THEY MUST HEAR THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL! What happened was these marketing strategies were successful in getting people into the church, but to keep them coming back they refused to talk about sin, hell, and tell people the truth that without Jesus they would die and be lost for eternity! Only God knows how many people went to these churches, died, and are forever in the flames of hell because nobody had the guts to tell them the truth about their eternal soul!

In trying to “change the negativ! e views on
Christianity,” those involved in the “He Gets Us” campaign have simply played on people’s emotions without telling them the truth. IF WE DON’T TELL THEM, WHO WILL??? As you read Paul’s letters to the churches in the New Testament, you read about him dealing with this same theological error. Those who were making up a false gospel, those who were tickling ears. Paul took the Gospel to the people of his day, and once he was before them SHARED THE TRUTH ABOUT SIN, THEIR ETERNAL SOUL, AND THAT JESUS AND JESUS ALONE COULD SAVE THEM!!!

Any ad campaign that doesn’t tell people the truth about their sin, about the fact that without faith in Jesus they will die and burn in hell for all eternity, is nothing but a theological SCAM! SADLY THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS “HE GETS US” CAMPAIGN IS!!! I am sorry, but once again, those who put this together are far too mature and sophisticated, those who funded it are far too mature and sophisticated. Instead of changing the negat! ive views on
Christianity, all they have done is promote theological lies and wasted a golden opportunity to bring lost souls to faith in Jesus.

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One of the most compelling things about the accounts of Jesus’ life in the Gospels is His compassion for those who were hurting. Jesus loved people. Jesus had a heart for those who were looking for hope. It does not take a Biblical scholar to understand that as a child of God, helping others is the main job God has given us to do. The scriptures are full of exhortations to help those in need, the poor, the widows. While the needs of some people are obvious, we are also to be there for those whose needs may not be as obvious, the spiritually poor.

You see, the spiritually poor are looking for answers to the questions of life. When the challenges of this life become overwhelming, they are looking! for
answers, looking for hope. A person in this state of mind, at this place in their life is in desperate need of a word from God. Where does that word come from? From the people God sends into their life, YOU AND ME!

I realize many of you today are facing great battles in your life. Struggles with sin. Struggles on your job or at school. Struggles in your family relationships. Struggles with your finances. Struggles with your health. Let me share something with you that I learned years ago. It was at the height of my personal struggles, when my natural tendency was to focus solely on the battles I was facing, that I would seek out ways to serve God by helping someone else.

Even though my battles didn’t go away, they became more manageable. The struggles weren’t as difficult and answers to my problems came a little easier. Why? I am convinced the Bible teaches us that if we will be about our Father’s business, He will be about our business. It is a spiritual princip! le that
works!!!

I want to challenge you today. Pray about who it is God has put in your life who is hurting and needing hope in the midst of a difficult situation. It may be someone in your family. Possibly a friend. Maybe someone at church. It could be a person at your work or in your school. God has strategically placed you in the life of someone today who is hurting and in need of a word from God.

Once you have prayed and God shows you who it is, reach out to that person. Have a cup of coffee or a bite to eat with them. Go do something together. Get that person in a one-on-one situation and let them know they are not alone in their battle, that they are not alone in whatever they are going through. You are there to stand with them, to pray with them, and to help them see victory. Often, it is not necessary to do more than just reach out in love to that person who is hurting, for them to see and feel the love of Christ coming from you. I have always said it is usually! not what
we say, but what we do that shows the Christ in us to others.

I love you, and care about you so much. I will be praying for you today because I know you are going through problems in your life. I am reaching out to you to let you know I will pray for you, I will stand with you, and I will be here to help you overcome whatever the battles are in your life. God has given us each other because He never expected us to go through this journey alone. We are to bear one another’s burdens.

Today, reach out to that person God has placed on your heart. Show them the love of Christ through your actions. Let them know they are not alone, that someone cares for them. That can be the difference between victory and defeat in their life, between them living without hope, and moving forward victoriously over the problems in their life. Never forget, helping others is not an option, it is what God has called His children to do.

In His love and service,

Your fr! iend and
brother in Christ,

Bill Keller