The 2014 State Evangelism Conference was held Feb. 24–25 at Eastmont Baptist Church, Montgomery, and also was streamed online, garnering more than 400 online viewers. The event offered the opportunity for participants to be encouraged, challenged and ministered to through a dynamic group of speakers and musicians, several of whom called attention to the pressing need for revival both in Alabama and the nation. Below are summaries of speakers who were not featured in the print edition of the newspaper.
The closing session with Jim Cymbala, pastor of The Brooklyn Tabernacle, N.Y., can be read here.
Bob Pitman
Evangelist
So hang on — don’t quit serving and don’t quit giving, encouraged evangelist Bob Pitman, citing 1 Corinthians 15:50–58. “Your labor is not in vain in the Lord. One day you’ll step on the other side and He’ll say, ‘Well done,’ and that’s worth everything.”
When “Jesus saved you, He changed you” and it was real change, it was wonderful change and it was spiritual change, he said.
“Be settled on the inside about what you believe” and be “settled in how you behave,” Pitman said. “We ought to be saved, blood-washed, Holy Spirit-filled … on Sunday morning … and on Friday night.”
“We have to once again make it a priority of sharing the gospel and telling folks how they can be saved,” he said, noting how focusing on “spiritual cripples” will amaze people like Peter did with the crippled man in Acts 3:1–10.
Peter healed the lame beggar and left people with wonder and amazement, Floyd said.
The power belonged to Christ, but the hand belonged to Peter, he added. “When we do all that we can do then He does all that He can do and that’s when the miracles take place.”
Grace is one person accepting another person in a positive manner in spite of their unworthiness, he said, preaching from the story of David and Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 9.
Grace gives a future, a family and fulfillment, Cox said. “It takes me from being a nobody and places me at (the) table of King Jesus.”
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