Hands
Tony delivered this sermon at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL on September 7, 2011
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- You were born for such a time as this
- You have been called as agents in this world to transform this world into what it ought to be
- Joke: You don’t have to be Baptist to go to Heaven… But why take a chance
- Joke: You know your old when your wife says lets go upstairs and have sex and you say, “I can’t do both.”
- The purpose of Jesus coming into the world was not to get us ready for the next world, but to equip us to do His work and His will in this world
- Isaiah 65:17
- You can be theologically orthodox and not be a disciple. Jesus never said go into all the world and make believers out of people, he said go into all the world and make disciples.
- A disciple committed themselves to living out the ways the master prescribed
- You are not to settle for what the system has told you and even for what your parents have told you
- The real purpose of an education is to equip you to serve other people in the name of Jesus Christ
- Story about Brian Stevenson, an Eastern University graduate and student of Tony’s who later graduated from Harvard Law School and moved to Montgomery Alabama to defend convicts on death row
- Story about Jean Thompson and her student Teddy Stallard
- Story about Tony’s student who was excited that she got a prestigious job as a teacher in the Abington School District in Pennsylvania
- Story about when Tony took some of his students to Haiti and Charlie who became a plastic surgeon rather than the doctor he said he would become to serve the poor kids in Haiti
- There is only one way to end poverty and that is to create jobs
- Tony talks about the creation of World Vision and Opportunity International
- Story about an Eastern student who started a business in Santo Domingo that made shoes out of old worn out automobile tires
- Story about the creation of “The Simple Way” organization
- Story about the father of one of Tony’s students who said “I don’t mind being Christian up to a point”
- When are we going to face up to the fact that we know what Jesus taught
- Gandhi said, “Everybody knows what Jesus expects of people except for Christians.”
- If you read the Bible you are confident that the world can be changed
- The world will end by the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God, and He shall reign forever and ever
- Story about Tony’s black church and the preach-off
- It’s Friday, but Sunday’s comin’!
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Reference ID: 09072011
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