GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION

Here are the words... come on and sing with me...

Give me that old time religion
give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
It's good enough for me

Makes me love everybody
Makes me love everybody
Makes me love everybody
It's good enough for me

It was good for Hebrew children
it was good for Hebrew children
It was good for Hebrew children
And it's good enough for me

It was tried in the fiery furnace
It was tried in the fiery furnace
It was tried in the fairy furnace
It's good enough for me

It will do when I'm dying
It will do when I'm dying
It will do when I'm dying
It's good enough for me

It can take us all to heaven
It can take us all to heaven
It can take us all to heaven
It's good enough for me

Give me that old time religion
give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
It's good enough for me

You saw an old photo of our church at the top of this post. Here are some more old photos of RFBC...

Irene Gaslin is in the middle and Mary Sue Holt is on the right.

How long has it been since you heard about 'that old time religion'? Pastor Ronnie Floyd is now the president of our Southern Baptist Convention and he is calling all of us to prayer. Here is what he wrote recently...

"There is no great movement of God that has ever occurred that does not begin with the extraordinary prayer of God’s people. The time is now for us to come together before God in clear agreement, visible union, and in extraordinary prayer for the next Great Awakening and for the world to be reached for Christ. 

For the sake of our nation and the spiritually lost around the world, it is time to humble ourselves before God. For this, I plead with all Southern Baptist pastors, missionaries, laypersons, denominational leaders, churches, denominational entities, conventions, colleges and universities; from student to adult, regardless of age, vocation, or status. 

As we come to God in humility and repentance, entering into this special season of extraordinary prayer, we plead with God for spiritual revival personally, revival in the church, and the next Great Awakening in the United States. As Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes: "And in movements of the Spirit the first thing that happens and which eventually leads to a great revival is that one man or a group of men suddenly begin to feel this burden and they feel the burden so much that they are led to do something about it." [Revival: Martyn Lloyd-Jones, p. 163]

I am pleading with each of you to join in this spiritual movement to pray for the next Great Awakening so the Great Commission will escalate to its rightful priority and accelerate to its completion in our generation."

Will you join us in prayer? Pray that our churches will be filled with people who are more concerned about God's approval than man's applause. Pray that we would be the light and the salt that Jesus told us to be Matthew 5. America needs to hear that old time religion.