The Pathway To Power
Adrian Rogers
Acts 1:1-9
The book of Acts, a wonderful, wonderful book. And we're going to be looking at the book of Acts quite a bit of time in the near future. As a matter of fact we're beginning in this New Year a brand new series, and the title of the series, "That Old Time Religion." That old time religion.
Now the reason I want to call it that old time religion is that we need to take a look back that we might really face the future. And its very important that we do this today because it is the old time religion that needs to be the new time religion.
I heard Billy Graham had come to a particular city some time ago, or he was supposed a come for a revival crusade and there was preacher who didn't want him to come. The preacher was just kind of liberal and he said, "We don't want that man here in our city. Why he will set evangelism back 50 years." When Billy Graham heard that he said, "Why I didn't want to set evangelism back 50 years, I wanted to set it back 2000 years." Amen? And that's what we need to do is to get back to the basics.
I'm told that Vince Lombardi didn't like to lose a football game, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers. But on a particular occasion they had lost a game and it was a game that they didn't want to lose, they didn't think they should have lost, and lost because of some foolish mistakes.
He said very little on the bus away from the stadium, very little on the airplane back. But the next day at practice when they assembled on the field, he reached into a canvas bag, had all of the team assembled, reached into a canvas hag and held up a foot ball and said, "Gentlemen, this is a football." He started with the basics.
And that is what I want us to do this coming year. I want us just to get back to the basics. I'm impressed as I read the book of Acts. The book of Acts is the story of success, it is the story of a church triumphant. Really it is the ...
Adrian Rogers
Acts 1:1-9
The book of Acts, a wonderful, wonderful book. And we're going to be looking at the book of Acts quite a bit of time in the near future. As a matter of fact we're beginning in this New Year a brand new series, and the title of the series, "That Old Time Religion." That old time religion.
Now the reason I want to call it that old time religion is that we need to take a look back that we might really face the future. And its very important that we do this today because it is the old time religion that needs to be the new time religion.
I heard Billy Graham had come to a particular city some time ago, or he was supposed a come for a revival crusade and there was preacher who didn't want him to come. The preacher was just kind of liberal and he said, "We don't want that man here in our city. Why he will set evangelism back 50 years." When Billy Graham heard that he said, "Why I didn't want to set evangelism back 50 years, I wanted to set it back 2000 years." Amen? And that's what we need to do is to get back to the basics.
I'm told that Vince Lombardi didn't like to lose a football game, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers. But on a particular occasion they had lost a game and it was a game that they didn't want to lose, they didn't think they should have lost, and lost because of some foolish mistakes.
He said very little on the bus away from the stadium, very little on the airplane back. But the next day at practice when they assembled on the field, he reached into a canvas bag, had all of the team assembled, reached into a canvas hag and held up a foot ball and said, "Gentlemen, this is a football." He started with the basics.
And that is what I want us to do this coming year. I want us just to get back to the basics. I'm impressed as I read the book of Acts. The book of Acts is the story of success, it is the story of a church triumphant. Really it is the ...
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