An ongoing story of HIStory being lived out. . . yet TODAY!

An ongoing story of HIStory being lived out. . . . yet today!

My first mission trip as a believer was to serve with Voice of Calvary in Mendenhall, MS, founded by John Perkins in 1962. I must say, that trip lit a fuse under me that still burns brightly and hot today! 

You can read his story here: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/final-charge-john-m-perkins/ . 

This is the verse he loves by: Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know [b]us, because it did not know Him. (1 John 3:1)

Here is his challenge to the younger generation today . . .and I must agree!

“Our job with them is to teach them not just to do life with each other, but to have the love of Christ,” he said. “Let’s get past working together and partying together and playing on athletic teams together, and let’s confront sin together. Let’s grow in faith together.”

For this generation, John Perkins’s message of forgiveness is just as crucial as it’s ever been.

It’s a gospel that’s leading Perkins, after nearly nine decades of working on civil rights and equal education and access to health care, to spend his last years on biblical reconciliation.

“The Bible says God made all people from one blood,” Perkins wrote in One Blood. “This tells me that he intended that humankind would be a people that were spiritually connected despite their cosmetic variations.”

“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.(John 17:20-21)