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17SEPTEMBER 2015BODY OF CHRIST NEWS LOCAL EVENTs Gospel Golf Classic Sept 12th Annual Rocky Mountain Gospel Golf Classic 4 - Player Best Ball Scramble 7p. Shotgun Start. Park Hill Golf Course 4141 E. 35th Ave. 10000 Hole in One Closet to the Pin Longest Drive Lunch Buffet Door Prizes and Trophies. 85.00 per Player. More info call Jerome Jones at 303 512-6528 7th Annual Womens Day Sept 13th Hosted by Redeeming Love Fellowship Church Victorious Womens Ministry. 11a speaker Sis Roslynn Gordon of FLFC. 5p speak- er Vermell Love of Shiloh Temple Apostolic. Heroine of Hope Awards will be presented at this service. We are all women to wear white. Tailgate Party Sept 19th End of Summer Tailgate Party by EPIC 2015 Challenge. 3p - 6p. at Skyland Park 3300 Ivanhoe St. Denver CO. 2nd Annual Community Walk Sept 19th Saturday 9a - 1p African American Quilters and Collectors Guild Presents The Community Walk with God at City Park 2100 York st Denver. Come help us unify our community help one another to reason and not divide. Help us to be better neighbors by helping battered wives rape victims adolescent mothers the homeless. Anniversary Revival Sept 20 21 New Hope Baptist Church. Sun at 10am Mon at 7pm. for more info call 303 322-5200 Bishop George Bloomer Sept 24 25 Soul Care Full Gospel Center Presents Bishop George Bloomer author of Witch Craft in the Pews Spiritual Warfare. Prophetic Prayer Summit Intercessory Pray Minister Salita Biddix. 63350 East 69th. Ave. Commerce City 80022 for more info call 303 886-0934 Celebration Luncheon Sept 25th Colorado Black Arts Movement CBAM 1st Annual Webb arts Award Gala. 6p at Tivoli Turnhall on Auraria Campus. The Wilma J. Webb Award will be awarded annually. Celebration Luncheon Sept 26th Sat 11a - 2p a Musical Celebration Tribute Luncheon in honor of Rev. E. Hayward Butch Hobbs 71st Birthday 63 yrs of Music at Scott United Methodist Church 2880 Garfield St. Denver 80205 Cancer Saved My Life Sept 26th Sat 9a - 12p. Cancer Saved My Life by finding Peace and Joy in Trusting the Heart of God with the things we dont understand. Presented by Pioneers of Faith Senior Ministry. Come share with us your story its going to help someone else. Call Henri Anna Davis at 720 841-1845. Pastor Peter Taffe Life by Design Ministries 1756 So. Chambers Rd. Aurora 80017. Church Annivrsary Sept 27th Sunday 330p Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church Celebrates their 49th Pastor Wife Church Anniversary Rev. Willie C. Jones. 3301 Leyden St. Denver 80207. for more info call 303 322-5983 Church Anniversary Sept 27th 4pm Christ Church Apostolic will Celebrate their 35th Anniversary under the Bishop AL. R. Combs. FounderPastor. 14007 E. 22nd PL. Aurora 80011 for more info call 303 340-352 Bishop Earl O. Holiman Bishop Earl Holiman first got his calling to serve God when he was 22 years old. Now the 85-year old has excelled in his ministry and is the founder and senior pastor of Bethsaida Temple Christian Center located at 3930 E. 37th St. in Denver Colo. He has been a beacon for other pas- tors who came up under him since the 1960s and started their own min- istries. Bishop Holiman was sent to preach in Colorado by his mentor the late Bishop Willy Lee from Indianapolis Ind. We are a church that believes fully and totally in the word of God and scriptures in the Bible- from Genesis to Revelations- being a believer in the word of God he said since preaching at Bethsaida Temple. After coming to Denver Bishop Holiman began his ministry journey in a little store front church off 31st and Gilpin streets. They later moved to a location off 28th street and Milwaukee. He said he was blessed to purchase the property on 37th street and Colorado Boulevard to build their present church Bethsaida Christian Temple. Bishop Holiman adds that his pur- pose and vision is to encourage people and help them stand firm in the word of God. His favorite interpretation of the Bible is the King James Version. As the bishop sees it a lot of what is wrong in todays society comes from people not stand strong in their faith and lack of understanding the scrip- tures. The Bible prophesized these last days. How people will depart from their faith. They will be seduced by doc- trines of demons and churches away getting away from sound doctrine and holiness. This is what is happening in these days and time Bishop Holiman said. The Bishop has been a lucky man in being married to his wife Aurelia since 1950. On the churchs website the first lady stands in being a virtuous woman of God. Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised. Give her the fruits of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates Proverbs 31 25-31. The Bishop and his wife have one son Earl Jr. a daughter Belinda Cook and one grandson Eric. Bethsaida Temple Christian Center 3930 E 37th Ave. Denver Co 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. worship service on Sundays 7 p.m. Bible Study on Wednesdays Bishop Earl Holiman The Bible prophesized these last days. How people will depart from their faith. They will be seduced by doctrines of demons and churches away getting away from sound doctrine and holiness. This is what is happening in these days. PASTOR PROFILE do they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet invite the poor the crippled the lame the blind and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you you will be repaid at the resur- rection of the righteous. There has to be some grace at the table. There can be no ministry without grace. Thats Jesus message here. You cannot look for conditional blessings every time you do something for people and for God. Ministry is corrupt when it gets to the place where every deed must be repaid. Ministry is counterfeit when we start believing that those we bless owe us something. There is no grace in that Whenever you are in a graceless rela- tionship with anybody God is not in it. A lot of us are allowing our blessings to block our blessings because when we bless people our blessings are noth- ing more than high interest loans that must be paid back or penalties will be assessed. God is not into graceless relationships. This parable is really an indictment on friends family and the well to do. What its really saying is even our most coveted relationships with family and friends are graceless relationships. We do for family because you hope and expect them to pay you back. You expect them to pay you back and they should but helping people who pay you back and who you expect to pay you back is no big deal. . Sometimes you have to give to the person who you know before you give it to them that its not a loan. Invite that person to dinner who just joined the church and you pick up the tab. Run some elderly person to the doctor and to the store and wherever else they may need to go and never mention the word gas. We are trying to figure out why it seems we are not getting blessed. It could be that our blessings are blocking our blessings because every blessing we give is attached to a condition But I dare you to start blessing the church and blessing people and not being so worried about where and when your blessing is going to come. When you have no expectation on the recipient to reciprocate God gets in your giving Thats when blessings start to come from everywhere Your blessings are uncontrolled because your blessings are unconditional When you start to give expecting nothing in return thats when your windfall hits. But if you are looking for me to bless you back with what you gave to me you are expecting too little Gods got more than I got more than you gotgot more than your sister or brothers got Give and dont expect the recipient to reciprocate and let God do the blessing Lastly Jesus again points the les- son in another direction. He ends with a parable and this time he puts the focus not on the guests and not on the hosts but he puts the focus on the invitation itself. If the Church is going to be the church and that is really what this text is about the church has to understand that everybody isnt excited about being invited. When you talk about church some folk believe they are already blessed without com- ing. I dont need to go to church. Im blessed already. The parable is about Israel rejecting Jesus but it is also about people rejecting him today. The Jews saw themselves as already being blessed of God. We have Moses and we have Abraham. Who needs Jesus The parable says that the first invitees the Jews didnt get excited about being invited. Why do we have to come to your sons wedding feast We are already blessed. We have land livestock and love. We are already blessed. Sorry but we cant come to your sons wedding. Everybody aint excited about being invited. Do not miss the fact that the invita- tion first went out to blessed people but yet they could not get excited. Some people can get excited about themselves but cannot ever seem to get excited about God and other people. You can witness to them and invite them but nothing can excite them they will make excuse after excuse as to why they cannot come to church but all they are doing is letting their bless- ings block their blessings Like the man in the parable we let property and possessions prevent us from praising God. Family responsi- bilities often keep us from the fathers table as though we are the only person who has ever been married and had to serve God. Some people act as though they are the only people to have chil- dren who have had to serve the Lord. We got a little two-cent job and we act like God has never called working saints to be at the table We never have time to support the ministry. We are so satisfied with what we have that we allow our blessings to block our bless- ings We act as if what we have now is all God has for us God wants to do great things for us but God is waiting on you. You have the invitation. God is waiting on you but you dont have forever. God does but you dont. If your blessings are blocking your blessings go on and make excus- es but there are some more invitations going out You dont have to be excited to be invited but there are some more invitations going out But let me tell you something about these new invitations There are no names on these invita- tions There are no addresses on these invitations They just say whosoever will Not my name and not your name but whosoever will You may not be excited but God will get some folk who are just excited to be invited Blessings ... from pg 16