We’re Glad to Share What God Has Given us
September 13, 2009
Here is the 8th and final thing you need to know about Keep Believing Ministries . . .
8. We’re glad to share what God has given us.
That means we give our stuff away. All of it, all the time. We give away all 800+ sermons, all 300+ articles, and the 100+ podcasts. And we give away blog entries also. We give away our FAQs. We email a free sermon each week to 6400 people.
Over the years we’ve given away over 400,000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul for prison ministry, military ministry, disaster relief, and targeted missionary efforts. We’ve received over 12,000 letters (mostly from prisoners) telling us they read the book, with many saying they came to Christ as a result.
When we finally get across the video threshold, that will be free too.
And we give people the right to use our material. On a daily basis we hear from pastors and Christian workers around the world who use sermons from the KBM website. Here’s a note that arrived this week from a pastor in New York:
Pastor Ray, I am finishing up a sermon which, Lord willing, I will deliver this Sunday about counting it all joy when we experience trials. I must tell you that your sermon – the Sixth Law-There Is no Growth without struggle, has been an inspiration to me. I have used many of the ideas you presented here in the message. I am a bivocational pastor and this sermon was particularly helpful.
Christ is All, Tom
And this one came a few months ago from a pastor in Africa:
Dear Pastor Ray,
Thank for being an encourager and a coach and a mentor to me and my ministry.
I have benefited and still benefit since I came in contact with you and website online.
I love you big time. Amen.
Pastor Charles
Masindi
Uganda
And this note came from a house church pastor in China:
I am preaching Ray’s sermon series on the prayers of Paul, it is so powerful message i have ever read!and it really changed my prayer life in an unexpected way! so awesome!
If you look at the bottom of every sermon, you’ll see a copyright statement. We do that to protect the material from misuse. So far that’s never been a problem. We want Bible teachers and pastors and small group leaders and Sunday School teachers to use the material, to improve it and shape it and make it their own. And if you want to help us, pray for us. And then mention the website or link back to it. Anything that brings traffic to our website helps this ministry.
And that brings me full circle back to the first installment of this series where I explained that we are an Internet-driven ministry. Everything we do starts on the Internet and goes out around the world.
Sometimes people ask how we are supported. A friend mentioned to me recently that we don’t say much about money. That’s true, but it’s not that we’re embarrassed about money. It’s just that we don’t want to make money our chief aim. When God led us to start this ministry, we pooled our money and opened our first bank acount with $350. And God has taken care of us along the way.
We’ve definitely got big dreams.
Here’s our plan to reach those dreams. We’re giving our stuff away. All of it, all the time. By God’s grace, that won’t change because it’s a core conviction with us. That means we’ll keep going as long as God’s people around the world feel this ministry deserves their support.
We’re trusting the Lord to touch the hearts of his people to help us reach as many people as possible in as many places as possible, in partnership with many other ministries, and some day in many languages, through sermons, articles, blog entries, devotionals, books, letters, email, Facebook, Twitter, video, radio, TV, YouTube, and also by preaching and teaching in churches and in conferences around the world, with a goal of building a multinational community of believers who come to www.KeepBelieving.com for sound biblical resources, all of it put together by the Lord so that we can
Equip and encourage people to keep believing in Jesus.
That’s our mission statement, by the way. It’s why we do what we do. Thanks for reading and praying and standing with us in this great adventure of faith.