May 28 – Fancy Foods to Evangelist
After graduating with a degree in Economics, Bill Bright moved to California to make his fortune. While there, he began a company called Bright’s California Confections and was well on his way when God spoke to him. He became a Christian in his early 20s and began taking seminary classes on the side. One evening while studying Greek with a friend, Bill felt God drawing him even closer. In the middle of the conversation with God, he knew God was telling him to leave seminary, though he was close to being finished. He obeyed and later discovered that God had a purpose for that … he was much more effective as a layperson than he would have been as a pastor in the work he was about to begin.
In 1951, he and his wife Vonette founded Campus Crusade for Christ working with intellectuals in Los Angeles. He began by focusing on athletes, beauty queens and other prominent members of the UCLA campus, knowing that they would influence great numbers. With this, his vision from God was set into place. He was out to evangelize the world beginning with students.
In 1965, Bill wrote down the Four Spiritual Laws which have become a foundation for evangelism. This small tract made it easy to explain the work of God in our lives and our response.
1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. (John 3:16, John 10:10)
2. Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life. (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23)
3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life. (Romans 5:8, I Corinthians 15:3-6, John 14:6)
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. (John 1:12, Ephesians 2:8,9, John 3:1~8, Revelation 3:20)
Campus Crusade is behind the “Jesus Film” project which created the 1979 film “Jesus” and plans for it to be translated and presented in every country around the world.
Today Campus Crusade has over 25,000 staff members, a ministry presence in 191 countries operational offices in 13 countries around the world. Bill Bright died in 2003 and is remembered by Billy Graham as carrying a burden for evangelization of the world.
After graduating with a degree in Economics, Bill Bright moved to California to make his fortune. While there, he began a company called Bright’s California Confections and was well on his way when God spoke to him. He became a Christian in his early 20s and began taking seminary classes on the side. One evening while studying Greek with a friend, Bill felt God drawing him even closer. In the middle of the conversation with God, he knew God was telling him to leave seminary, though he was close to being finished. He obeyed and later discovered that God had a purpose for that … he was much more effective as a layperson than he would have been as a pastor in the work he was about to begin.
In 1951, he and his wife Vonette founded Campus Crusade for Christ working with intellectuals in Los Angeles. He began by focusing on athletes, beauty queens and other prominent members of the UCLA campus, knowing that they would influence great numbers. With this, his vision from God was set into place. He was out to evangelize the world beginning with students.
In 1965, Bill wrote down the Four Spiritual Laws which have become a foundation for evangelism. This small tract made it easy to explain the work of God in our lives and our response.
1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. (John 3:16, John 10:10)
2. Man is sinful and separated from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life. (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23)
3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life. (Romans 5:8, I Corinthians 15:3-6, John 14:6)
4. We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. (John 1:12, Ephesians 2:8,9, John 3:1~8, Revelation 3:20)
Campus Crusade is behind the “Jesus Film” project which created the 1979 film “Jesus” and plans for it to be translated and presented in every country around the world.
Today Campus Crusade has over 25,000 staff members, a ministry presence in 191 countries operational offices in 13 countries around the world. Bill Bright died in 2003 and is remembered by Billy Graham as carrying a burden for evangelization of the world.
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