The banquet is ready.  A spread of fine cuisine unlike anything you could ever imagine has been carefully arranged with painstaking attention given to every minute detail.  While everything is prepared, the feast still lacks one thing…people!  The Master must have His house filled, so He commands His servants to, “go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame…go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that My house may be filled”  (Luke 14:21-23).  While we as believers anticipate with great joy and hope a future heavenly feast (Revelation 19:9), we recognize our position as servants of the Master whom He entrusts with the delightful duty of compelling people to join in the feast!  On Sunday, December 13, we will celebrate our first ever, “Compelled Christmas.”  It will be a day our church will labor as servants of the Master, not only to provide a banquet for those “poor, crippled, blind, and lame” but also to compel them toward a greater feast to come, enjoyed only by those who trust in Christ for salvation.  To sign up or for more information on ways you can help serve this banquet, go to the Compelled Christmas table in Crossroads today.

The banquet for the needy will be only the beginning of a wonderful evening of music celebrating the birth of God’s invitation to the feast, Jesus Christ.  While our church is specifically serving the needy in our community during the banquet at 5:00, our outstanding choir, quartet and orchestra will present a free concert for the entire community at 7:00.  Please begin compelling as many people as you can to join us for the concert.  I pray your loving service throughout the banquet and your multiple invitations to attend will ultimately compel many to one day fill the Master’s house for the true feast, the marriage supper of the Lamb!

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