Jesus Saves

And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins. Matt. 1:21

God has blessed our church family with reaching arms that extend around the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our mission efforts are built upon our vital relationships with the missionaries, native pastors, and sending organizations.

Many of them are with us for these next four days and nights because they partner with us in allowing Englewood Baptist Church to be not only a sending church and a giving church, but a doing church in global missions. We believe the whole world is the arena of God's love and concern - that every person is in need of His forgiveness and grace.

When we experience people of other cultures - individuals who differ from us in color, culture, and language-we affirm that God loves them as He does us. We increasingly broaden our vision of God's compassion beyond Rocky Mount, or North Carolina, or even the United States.

Priscilla Owens taught Sunday School for half a century at the Union Square Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Often she would write a hymn and use it to teach a Biblical truth to her students. In 1882, she wrote the words that are the theme of our Global Impact Celebration for this year- Jesus Saves. Every line emphasizes the global impact of the gospel:

We have heard the joyful sound:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Spread the tidings all around:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Bear the news to every land,
Climb the mountains, cross the waves;
Onward! ’tis our Lord’s command;
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

Waft it on the rolling tide:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Tell to sinners far and wide:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Sing, you islands of the sea;
Echo back, you ocean caves;
Earth shall keep her jubilee:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

Give the winds a mighty voice:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Let the nations now rejoice:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Shout salvation full and free;
Highest hills and deepest caves;
This our song of victory:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!