This blog post has been sitting un-edited on my computer for a year now. It is a topic I can get very passionate over. With much activity among our bus in the recent weeks, the fire has been rekindled and I want to share some of that passion with y’all. Be warned, it will probably be a lengthy post. 😉 Luke 14:23, "And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." Possibly one of the greatest tools of our generation in reaching children has been the Bus Ministry. Thousands upon thousands have been reached and countless lives affected through it. It has brought many children into the church to hear the gospel that would not otherwise have come. Generations later, the grandchildren of those who had previously attended church are being seen on the busses today. The window of opportunity for reaching children grows smaller each passing year. Satan is enslaving kids sooner and sooner into lives of sin. It is absolutely mind blowing what kids today know and have experienced; things that High Schoolers were rarely doing a decade ago are now common among children barely into school. If we are going to reach our generation for Christ, we must go after the children. The Bus Ministry is a simple ministry to understand. Essentially it consists of getting kids to and from church. Anything else is just an extension of that simple definition. We visit to see who is riding, we try to find more kids to ride, we play game or sing songs on the ride, we get them to church, they hear the Word of God, and we take them home. Easy enough. Often the hearts of the children at this age are open, receptive, and soft resulting in lives that accept the free gift of the gospel. We all can take a head knowledge and agree with the effectiveness and importance of the bus ministry, but so often that is also where it ends.
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"I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord... I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." (Psalm 40.1-3, 104.33)
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January 2023
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