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JOHN BRADSHAW
November 2022
“We’ve been searching for 30 years for a church to call home… and we’ve finally found it!”
Dear friend in ministry, In 2020, shortly after It Is Written moved into our new ministry home, a tornado tore through our neighborhood, causing terrible destruction. The tornado toppled so many trees just feet from where I’m sitting that I now have a view of the hillside half a mile away. Right now the fall colors are absurdly beautiful, and they remind me that life is a series of cycles. As Genesis 8:22 says, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” As well as a cycle to planting, growing, and harvesting food, there is also a cycle for preparing souls for God’s kingdom. Evangelism works according to a cycle. There’s a time for soil preparation, then for planting, watering, nurturing, and, by the grace of God, harvest. After the harvest, we work to preserve the harvest, and then immediately work towards the next harvest of souls. Eric Flickinger, It Is Written associate speaker, told me this heartwarming story following his evangelistic series held in Colorado recently. A couple I’ll call Scott and Julie sat in the same seats every night and listened eagerly to every topic. During a visit, they shared that they had experienced the loss of a child and were grateful Eric’s presentations had given them hope. At the end of the meetings, with tears in their eyes, they said, “We’ve been searching for 30 years for a church to call home…and we’ve finally found it!”
That’s what your investment in It Is Written results in: souls reached with the gospel. Souls who find hope through faith in Jesus Christ. People called out of darkness and into His marvelous light.
Eric Flickinger preaches during his Which Way, America? series in Colorado.
I invite you to look ahead with me to future harvests, which will be built upon the work of preparation done by God’s people and God’s Spirit. Your contribution to