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The United Nations says that the basic human right, is that every man, woman, boy and girl on the earth should have access to food, clean water and shelter. I agree. Safe dwellings, starvation and clean water are something we should all be a part of helping to make a reality for everyone on the earth. It is in our capacity to feed, clothe and hydrate the world if we can all work together. Nations working in unity could accomplish this goal. It is a massive problem.

There is still a bigger issue!

As a Christian, I also believe that the basic human right is more than just food, water and shelter. The basic human right is to be exposed to TRUTH! Truth is not a concept, truth is a person, and that person is Jesus the Christ. If that is true, then we should do something about this issue. Some would say that it is arrogant to think that one religion would have all the answers. That we as Christians would have a better path to eternity than Islam, Buddhism or any other religion. That it is arrogant to demand that every human being to be exposed to the knowledge of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That I am right and that they are wrong and if they do not believe like me, they will go to Hell. It is arrogant…..unless what the bible says about Jesus is…TRUE! I believe that what Jesus said is true. I believe that the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, is real and that it changed everything. I can go to the tomb of Mohammad, Buddha or any other religious leader in history, and I can find their dead body in their tomb. However, I can go to the tomb of Jesus and He is not there, He is alive! That changes everything. I also believe that what Jesus said is essential. Jesus is not one way, Jesus is not some way, but that Jesus is THE way to the eternity in heaven that we all hope for where we will live forever with the eternal God.
If this is true, then a privatized Christianity in a resurrected Jesus is a curse to the nations, and not a blessing.

Silence is the enemy of truth!

The last command that Jesus gave to His disciples was to go into all this world and tell everyone that He is the Messiah, the way to eternity with God the Father. The resurrection demands a response that we would tell everyone that Jesus is THE WAY, JESUS IS THE TRUTH AND THAT JESUS IS THE LIFE! The Human Right is then more than food, water and shelter. It is the basic right to know the truth. That God so loved the world, that He gave by death, His one and only Son, so that whosoever would believe in Him, would never perish but inherit eternal life with this resurrected Jesus.

Until we see the lostness of man, we will still probably never do anything about this basic human right. Let us say it this way. What if we discovered that across the street form your house, there was found that a man had a room full of beautiful German Shepherd dogs. Then we discovered that on every Friday night, for entertainment, he would heat a fire poker in his fireplace to red hot.” Then we discovered that he would stick the hot fire poker in into the ears of these dogs, and then into the eyes of these beautiful defenseless animals. If we found this to be true across the street for your house, not one of us reading this would not stop and call the police, the SPCA and say,”someone must stop that man form torturing this dogs.” This would absolutely be the right thing to do to stop the torture. Here is my point. We pass people everyday that the Devil is torturing with drugs, alcohol, depression, suicidal thoughts and more. For the most part, we are unmoved by this happening all around us. We see the hungry bellies, the dying masses from water born illnesses and the war torn ares of the earth. We must respond and we must call the authorities to stop the torture. Our God has commissioned us to be the ones who would stop the killing of the defenseless, the hungry, the uninformed and that we might tell them the truth about Jesus. The basic human right is more than food, water and shelter. It is to know the truth about Jesus. That His love and His help and His hope is available to save them from their torturer. He is the way, He is the life and he is the truth.

So, what will you do about this? What will I do about this? Let’s join together and tell the whole world that this is not arrogance, this is the truth about Jesus! I dare you! It is up to you and it is up to me.

Carpe Diem

Learn More About the Right to Invite Weekend

1. A Friday night Holy Spirit Encounter service. I preach on the Baptism of the Holy spirit and we are seeing many baptized in the Holy Spirit in this meeting.

2. A Saturday morning outreach. Normally starts at 9:30am with prayer and last minute instructions. Out by 10am and back by Noon for testimonies. It is a big win as they pray with many people all across the community. We normally go to area businesses with a bag of Hershey’s Kisses with Almonds as they are the anointed ones!!! We say to the area businesses, “we are here to say thank you for what you do in our community. This is a gift to sweeten your day and say thank you for what you offer as a business, thank you for what you do to help the economy, thank you for the employees you employ and as a local church, we simply wanted you to know we are praying for you today.” They are blown away by the generous gesture and then we offer to pray for them. Your people come back pumped up as they got to pray with many all across the community. It is a big win to help people slide into a non confrontational approach evangelism and to reaching out to the community.

3. A Sunday morning “INVITE” service where we challenge every person in the church to bring at least “one person” with them on the Sunday morning service. The message is humorous and strong and we are seeing many being saved in this service.

4. Sunday night is a Drama called, “Unfinished, Unmasking he Message of the Cross.” It only takes 3 people in your church to perform. I do the last part. It is video and dialogue driven, one hour in length and lots of fun. It is also a passionate call to Christians to find the place of ministry in the church. We are seeing many saved at this event as people will come to a drama when they won’t come to a sermon. It is a powerful weekend designed to get people “hooked” on inviting people to church! That is the hope Pastor Joe!

Let me know a date when this can fit to help you reach that community! Love ya Pastor!

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The Right To Invite Weekend
The Right To Invite Weekend is a 3 day focus on gathering and inviting the community to the local church. Johnny helps the church organize and then mobilize through this weekend effort. It is a Friday night Holy Spirit encounter service, a Saturday morning outreach to the community, a Sunday morning INVITE service where every Christians encouraged to bring at least one person to the house of God for this special salvation teaching by Evangelist Johnny Jernigan and the Sunday night is the Drama, Unfinished: Unmasking the Message of the Cross. It is a one hour drama that performs in drama the Magic Kingdom concept of life, the Tragic Kingdom concept of life and the Real Kingdom established by Jesus the Christ 200 years ago. The entire weekend is a focus to awaken and trigger in the heart of the church a passion to gather the unbelieving culture to the Name of Jesus and the house of God. It is truly a powerful encounter for the local church.

H.O.P.E. Outreach
H.O.P.E. Outreach is a year long strategy to assist the local church in making evangelism part of the DNA of the church and not just an event. Thom Rainer says that “most evangelism has become humanitarian. We hand out Back Packs to kids when they go back to school, we give out Hot Dogs and Burgers when people come to our church events, we house the homeless and we feed the hungry and we should do all of these things. However, the average American believer is not sharing a clear Gospel with this culture. The population is growing, the church is becoming less involved in American life and the gap between the church and the culture is really widening.” H.O.P.E. Outreach stands for “Hour Of Power Evangelism.” We help churches reach their communities “one hour at a time.” It is a strategy for a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual focus on evangelist for the local church to keep evangelism central to the ministries of the church.

Sign The Pledge, Share the Message
This is an effort to send an e-mail to Christians every Thursday to remind them to pray for their Pastors, to tell at least one person their personal story of salvation and to invite at least one person to join them in their church the next Sunday. We presently connect with over 2500 people each week by email to help them share their faith and invite people to the house of God. We get weekly reports of someone coming to faith in Jesus or being saved in their local church,. The goal is to have 100,000 people on this email list in the next 10 years.