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Promise Keepers - Gary Wakefield
At Oak Hill Baptist Church we have several men that are dedicated to
the Lord Jesus Christ and serving Him by walking obediently to His
Word. We have also come together to support our church, each other,
and our community in our personal service to our Lord. We provide
this support in part through our internal men’s organization
associated with “Promise Keepers.”
On a monthly basis, our men meet with other Promise Keepers in the
Cumberland County, Tennessee area: for breakfast, devotions, to
praise God, for training, and to plan for special events on how we
might serve our local community and reach people with the Gospel.
This group of men are know as the “Cumberland County Men of Promise”
and our goal is to put the “Cross” back into “Crossville.” Recently,
the Cumberland County Men of Promise sponsored a Crossville-wide
crusade with the assistance of our special guest, “Elevation.” These
young men were invited into our local school to demonstrate their
physical feats of strength and share a word of hope and provide some
encouraging direction to our young boys and girls. These students
and all of the Cumberland County residents were also invited to
attend nightly meetings at Central Baptist Church where even great
physical feats of strength were demonstrated. But it was not their
strength that all who attended were amazed, but the strength,
compassion, grace, and love of Jesus Christ who offers all that will
receive: strength, hope, love, and Eternal Salvation. Nearly, 500
individuals made decisions to accept the forgiveness of their sins
by Jesus Christ and now are assured of Eternal Salvation. The
Promises Keepers of Oak Hill Baptist Church worked every night at
these meeting and during the day in the schools as the Lord opened
the heart’s door of young and old alike to receive His Word. During
this same week, some of our church’s Promise Keepers helped our
community neighbors by clearing fallen trees and blown debris from
their property and access roads that occurred during a devastating
tornado the weekend before the Crusade.
To find out more about the Oak Hill Baptist Church Promise Keepers,
contact: Gary Wakefield at 931-456-0707 (home) or at 931-707-1721
(work).
To find out more about the Cumberland County Men of Promise you may
visit their Website at
http://www.cumberlandmenofpromise.homestead.com/.
Each year our men rally with other Promise Keepers in our local
region of Cumberland County, TN and across our great Nation to be
revived and equipped to accomplish God’s good work for His Kingdom.
It is our goal to use these events to introduce new men to Promise
Keepers through our church and our personal outreach as we invite
men who may not know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
If you would like to attend the next National event with our church
men, contact: Gary Wakefield at 931-456-0707 (home) or at
931-707-1721 (work). This National event will be held:
DATE: Sept. 22-23
CITY: Louisville, Ky.
VENUE: Freedom Hall
For more information about the National Promise Keepers
organization, you may visit their Website at http://www.promisekeepers.org/home.
Below you will find the Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, and
Seven Promises that the Promise Keepers support.
Promise Keepers is dedicated to igniting and uniting men to be
passionate followers of Jesus Christ through the effective
communication of the 7 Promises.
A sovereign move of God's Spirit is stirring the hearts of men. In a
world of negotiable values, confused identities, and distorted
priorities, men are encountering God's Word, embracing their
identities as His sons, and investing in meaningful relationships
with God, their families and each other.
Clearly, Christian men have an unprecedented opportunity to seize
this moment and make a difference for Jesus Christ. We believe that
God wants to use Promise Keepers as a spark in His hand to ignite a
nationwide movement calling men from all denominational, ethnic, and
cultural backgrounds to reconciliation, discipleship, and godliness.
We affirm the historic Christian faith and proclaim the
life-transforming Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Gospel is
good news, the very best news anyone can hear.
1. The one living God, who eternally exists in three Persons: the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, loves everyone.
2. God uniquely revealed and inspired the Bible, so that it alone is
God’s Word written, hence the Holy Scriptures are the only inerrant
authority for what we believe about God’s moral law, salvation from
sin and how we should live.
3. Since the disbelief and disobedience of Adam and Eve, all humans
have failed to obey God’s two major laws summed up by the Lord Jesus
Christ. We have failed to love God with our whole being and we have
failed to love our neighbors as ourselves. People have become slaves
to selfishness and are alienated from God and one another.
4. Jesus’ death in our place reconciles us to God. His atoning
sacrifice provided redemption from the power of sin, forgiveness for
our guilt, and reconciliation to Himself and others. We become
acceptable to God, or justified, not by works, but by God’s grace
alone, through faith in Christ alone. We believe in the deity of
Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the
cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and
ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and
His return to earth in power and glory.
5. The Holy Spirit draws sinners to repentance, belief in the Gospel
and trust in the risen Christ of whom it speaks. The Holy Spirit
then assures believers of salvation, gives them gifts for servant
ministries, and empowers them to meet the needs of the lost, the
poor, and the oppressed.
6. All believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are members of His one
international, multi-ethnic and transcultural body called the
universal church. Its unity is displayed when we reach beyond racial
and denominational lines to demonstrate the Gospel’s reconciling
power.
7. Our primary calling is to communicate the Gospel to everyone in
our generation and nurture disciples. Nothing must divert us from
carrying out our Lord’s Great Commission until His glorious return
to reign in righteousness.
1. A Promise Keeper is committed to honoring Jesus Christ through
worship, prayer and obedience to God's Word in the power of the Holy
Spirit.
2. A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships
with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help
him keep his promises.
3. A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral,
ethical, and sexual purity.
4. A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages and
families through love, protection and biblical values.
5. A Promise Keeper is committed to supporting the mission of his
church by honoring and praying for his pastor, and by actively
giving his time and resources.
6. A Promise Keeper is committed to reaching beyond any racial and
denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity.
7. A Promise Keeper is committed to influencing his world, being
obedient to the Great Commandment (see Mark 12:30-31) and the Great
Commission (see Matthew 28:19-20). |
