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PREACHING: </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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(John McClure)</SPAN><BR>
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Discipleship</SPAN><BR>
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us to a demanding, uncompromising discipleship.</SPAN><BR>
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9:51-62</SPAN><BR>
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of those whom Jesus saved was Bill Wilson, one of the co-founders of Alcoholics
Anonymous.<SPAN> </SPAN>Wilson was an alcoholic -- a hopeless
drunk.<SPAN> </SPAN>Then, in 1934, he had a religious experience that put
him on the road to recovery.<SPAN> </SPAN>Nearly three decades later, he
wrote a letter to the famous psychiatrist, Carl Jung.<SPAN> </SPAN>He told
Jung how Jung's earlier treatment of an alcoholic, Rowland H., contributed to
the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.</SPAN></P>
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had treated Rowland H. for alcoholism, but Rowland had repeatedly relapsed, as
often happens with alcoholics.<SPAN> </SPAN>Finally, Dr. Jung told Rowland
that neither medicine nor psychiatry could help him.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Rowland's condition was essentially hopeless.<SPAN> </SPAN>But Dr.
Jung held out one small ray of hope, which was this -- a genuine religious or
spiritual experience might save him.<SPAN> </SPAN>That was Rowland's only
hope.</SPAN></P>
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respected Carl Jung so much that he decided to try the religious
route.<SPAN> </SPAN>He joined the Oxford Group, an evangelical Christian
fellowship that introduced him to Christ and led him to the religious conversion
that he needed.<SPAN> </SPAN>As a result, he was saved.<SPAN>
</SPAN>He was able to stop drinking.</SPAN></P>
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about the same time, Bill Wilson was having a similar experience.<SPAN>
</SPAN>His physician, Dr. Silkworth, pronounced him hopeless too.<SPAN>
</SPAN>But, learning of Rowland's experience, Bill Wilson prayed for God's help
-- and got it.<SPAN> </SPAN>He said:</SPAN></P>
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align=center>"In that moment I knew I was healed. </P>
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align=center>In that moment I knew that the addiction was broken, </P>
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align=center>that I was a free man, </P>
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align=center>maybe for the first time in my whole life."</P>
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asked <SPAN>William Boot</SPAN><SPAN>h</SPAN> to explain the success of
the Salvation Army.<SPAN> </SPAN>He responded:</P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-STYLE: normal; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </P>
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<P
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align=center>God has had all there was of me.<SPAN> </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center>On the day I caught a vision </P>
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align=center>of what Jesus Christ could do with the poor of London, </P>
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align=center>I made up my mind that God would have all of William Booth
there was.<SPAN> </SPAN></P>
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align=center>And if there is any power in the Salvation Army today, </P>
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align=center>it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, </P>
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align=center>and all the influence of my life.</P>
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align=center>The person who offers to God a second place </P>
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align=center>offers him no place.</P>
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align=center>I'm going to heaven </P>
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align=center>and I believe I'm going by the blood of Christ.<SPAN>
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<P
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align=center>That's not popular preaching, </P>
<P
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align=center>but I'll tell you it's all the way through the Bible </P>
<P
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align=center>and I may be the last fellow on earth who preaches it, </P>
<P
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align=center>but I'm going to preach it </P>
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align=center>because it's the only way we're going to get there.</P>
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align=center>Billy Graham</P>
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align=center>All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass -- </P>
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align=center>Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.</P>
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align=center>Archibald Alexander</P>
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align=center>Jesus blew everything apart, </P>
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align=center>and when I saw where the pieces landed </P>
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align=center>I knew I was free.</P>
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align=center>George Foster</P></DIV>
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styleclass="style_ArticleHeadline">HYMN STORY:</SPAN> <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jesus Calls
Us</SPAN><FONT
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style="COLOR: black">Cecil Frances Alexander (her married name) was an
outstanding young woman by virtue of ability, education, and
service.<SPAN> </SPAN>While still quite young, she and her sister operated
a school for the deaf, and she also published a highly successful book of hymns
for children -- designating the profits for the benefit of the
school.</SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black">She married William Alexander, an Anglican clergyman who
later became the Anglican Archbishop for all of Ireland.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Impressed by her hymns, he asked her to write a hymn for use during the
coming Sunday worship based on the call of<SPAN> </SPAN>Simon, Andrew,
James, and John (Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-18).<SPAN> </SPAN>She wrote
this hymn, "Jesus Calls Us," for that occasion.<SPAN> </SPAN>She wrote 400
hymns during her lifetime -- mostly children's hymns -- but "Jesus
Calls Us" and "All Things Bright and Beautiful" are the best known.</SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black">The first verse of this hymn begins, "Jesus calls us o'er
the tumult of our life's wild, restless sea" -- acknowledging the call of those
first disciples by the Sea of Galilee.<SPAN> </SPAN>A recurring theme is
"Christian, love me more" -- "Christian, love me more than these" -- "serve and
love thee best of all."<SPAN> </SPAN>Those words were inspired by John
21:15, where Jesus, after the resurrection, asked Peter, "Simon, son of John, do
you love me more than these?"<SPAN> </SPAN>The hymn therefore acknowledges
Jesus' claim, not only over the lives of those first four disciples, but over
the lives of every Christian.</SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black">NOTE:<SPAN> </SPAN>See other hymn stories at <FONT
size=+0><A style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
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track="on">www.sermonwriter.com</A><BR><BR><A
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<DIV>Richard Niell Donovan</DIV>
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