{"id":4860,"date":"2016-01-21T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2016-01-20T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:59:27","slug":"the-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROSTER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revelation 21:27<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my many years of pastoral ministry there has been one thing that always requires updating &#8212; The Church Roster. Whether it&#8217;s called the Church Mailing List or the Church Membership List, that list always requires updating. Just when you think you have everything in order, here come more additions or deletions.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly do not want to downplay the importance of these rosters. They provide names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, birthdays, anniversaries, and other pertinent information necessary for a pastor to minister to the members of the congregation<\/p>\n<p>God also has a list. It is called the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life. It is the most important book in the entire universe. If our names are in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, we are assured of an eternity in heaven. If our names are not there, I do not even want to think of the terrible consequences. Hell awaits those whose names are missing.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood is trying to paint a picture that our good works will determine if we are admitted into heaven or not. That is not what God\u2019s Word says. God says if our name is not in that book we will be denied admittance. Receive Jesus Christ by personal invitation and know where you\u2019re heading!<\/p>\n<p><em>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 21:27 \u201cBut there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life.\u201d In my many years of pastoral ministry there has been one thing that always requires updating &#8212; The Church Roster. Whether it&#8217;s called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}