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About Minister Greene

"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though GOD did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God" (II-Corinthians 5:20 KJV). When I step into the pulpit or sit at my computer, the expectation is that I am an ambassador of Christ Jesus. I speak on His behalf, not my own. As an ambassador of Christ, my task is not to promote my own ideas but rather to represent our King rightly. That means that all will never agree with what I say or do. My obligation is to bring the revealed truth of God to bear on the minds of men and women who come here to read or hear the word of God. When a person reaches out to God and God reach back it is by the simple means of words. The quiet still voice of God has spoken a volume of words that we know as the Holy Bible. The ambassador’s commission is to declare the whole counsel of God. The Bible is the heart of that counsel, and the traveler moving through the Bible landscape loses his or her way as soon as he or she loses sight of the hill called Calvary.

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