More Death in the Project

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Our evangelism team has been handing out Gospels of John in the crime infested low income housing project in Milwaukee over the last several months.

I planned on handing out Gospels of John at the project on my way home from work, but as I got to the intersection where I was going to park I came across this terrible scene. Needless to say, I didn't pass any out yesterday but prayed for families involved, the neighborhood and all lost souls.

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George MacLeod was a great preacher who, hundreds of years ago, faithfully obeyed the Great Commission. He exalted Jesus Christ in his preaching and wasn't afraid to preach the blood of the cross. He said, "I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroad, so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek ... at the kind of a place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died for. And that is what He died about. That is where church-men ought to be and what church-men ought to be about."

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Last night, on my way home from work, I was able to pass out Gospels of John in the Projects in the same block where the shooting happened.

Father, we lift up these dear souls and ask your mercy on all the lost, that they would be saved, in Jesus name, Amen.