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Text Box: The movie Field of Dreams is about an Iowa corn farmer who hears a voice, plows up part of his crop to put in a baseball field that allows players from the 1919 White Sox team to come out of what is left of the corn and play on it. He then travels to Boston to pick up Terence Mann (played by James Earl Jones), then to Minnesota, and then back home. At one point in the movie, Shoeless Joe Jackson was leaving to go back to wherever it was the cornfield led the players. He stopped, turned, and said, “Hey, you want to come with us?” Ray Kinsella (the farmer played by Kevin Costner) asks, “You mean it?” Shoeless Joe says, “No, not you. Him,” and points to Terence Mann. At this point Ray gets upset, asking, “Wait a second. Wait a second. Why him? I built this field; you wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for me. I want to know what’s out there. I want to see it.” Shoeless Joe just looks at him and says, “But you’re not invited,” which gets Ray even more upset. “Not invited? What do you mean, I’m not invited?” He can’t believe he’s not invited! Have any of you ever been “NOT INVITED” to an event? Was there ever a time in grade school where a classmate had a birthday party and you were “NOT INVITED”? Or maybe in High School when someone you thought was your friend has a party and you’re “NOT INVITED”? It’s probably happened to you. If you’re not part of the “in crowd,” you are left on the outside looking in. If you were on the outside, how did that make you feel? I can tell you from experience that it’s not a good feeling. Invitations are often very restrictive. Wedding invitations are given to relatives and close

friends; celebration dinner invitations are often restricted to top people in business or politics.
But the invitation Isaiah offers in chapter 55 is a universal, non-restrictive invitation. God, through Isaiah, issues an open invitation to "everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat!” Anyone can eat and drink this meal, free of charge. The only requirement is that they COME. In that first verse alone, God says, “Come” three times!

Sunday morning, I will be preaching from Isaiah 55 and Luke 13. My goal is to answer the question, “Does a person need to repent?” I will focus on God’s invitation to come to Him. I want to encourage you to invite and bring family members and friends who have not accepted God’s gift of salvation and pray throughout the service that the Holy Spirit will speak to them of their need for salvation. What a wonderful day it will be on Sunday if there are a number of persons who are not Christians present in our worship service and respond to God’s invitation of love and forgiveness. My prayer is that I will prepare a message that will be clear and challenging and that I will present it in a way that will cause people to respond to God’s invitation.

I hope you will do your part and invite those who need Christ in their lives and pray for this service. Have a good week and I plan to see you Sunday along with a friend or family member of yours who needs Christ. Come expecting God to do great things!

From Your Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sunday, Mar. 7

10:30 AM

6:00 PM

“Should a Person Repent?”

Isaiah 55:1-9, Luke 13:1-9

"Don’t Let Satan Outwit You"

2 Corinthians 2:5-11