The Law of Kindness
God's Key to the Locked Heart
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Incredibly, this means not only did God seek us out ‘when’ we rebelled, He had a plan to seek us out ‘before’ there was a rebellion! Selah.
And even more incredibly, not only did God seek us out when we rebelled, and not only did He have a plan to seek us out before there was a rebellion; so great was the love of God for mankind that He sought us out in the midst of our hatred for Him. I like to say, He showed us His love while we shook our fist in His face and shouted, “I hate You!”
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we
were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:8
And more incredibly still, not only did God seek us out when we rebelled, and not only did He have a plan to seek us out before there was a rebellion, and not only did He seek us out when we despised Him, His love for us is so great that it drives Him to continue to seek us--relentlessly! Over and over again, our God shows us His love through His multitudinous attempts to draw us!
…Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee
-Jeremiah 31:3
He reaches to us…and tragically, we reject Him. He reaches again…and we reject Him. He reaches yet again…and yet tragically again, and we reject Him! But then He quits, right? Oh No! Not our God! He reaches yet again. For His kindness is relentless….
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About the Book
For the Christian, no magic wand exists for effective soul winning. We have been given the Person of the Holy Spirit as our helper, along with tools such as using the law, wisdom, prayer etc., to guide us in our efforts to obey the Great Commission. However, all of our feeble efforts must rest upon the foundation of God’s nature. Just like the foundation of a building must be strong to allow and sustain its erection, so too must Christ-followers draw the lost to the cross from the bedrock of God’s nature of kindness. The kindness of God is not simply a politically correct cliché, but the very key to unlocking the heart of the unbeliever.
About the Author
Derrick Jackson currently holds the title of Pastor at Wheaton Christian Center Church Aurora in Wheaton, Illinois. He has served as an assistant pastor to Pastor Carlton R. Arthurs for more than 30 years and has been in the full-time ministry for over 35 years.
Pastor Jackson is a Wheaton, Illinois native, graduating from Wheaton Central High School in 1974 where he achieved all-state honors in basketball and baseball. After being drafted by the Texas Rangers professional baseball team out of high school he elected to attend Georgetown University on a basketball scholarship where he played four years for legendary basketball coach John Thompson.
He achieved basketball honors by being inducted into the Georgetown University Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996, the state of Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001, the All-century Georgetown University basketball team in 2007, and finally, Jackson was inducted into the Wheaton Central High school’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.
In answer to the first phase of God’s call, he elected to forsake the NBA and instead play basketball for Athletes in Action, the athletic arm of Campus Crusade for Christ International. For three years Pastor Jackson literally traveled the United States and the world as a missionary, visiting over 20 nations, using the platform of basketball to share the claims of Christ.
Three years later Jackson answered the second phase of God’s call and returned to Wheaton, Illinois to serve and support Pastor Carlton Arthurs at Wheaton Christian Center Church.
Pastor Jackson presently holds a Public Administration degree from the school of business at Georgetown University. His formal theological training has come through such notable institutions as Campus Crusade For Christ, Oral Roberts University, and Wheaton College. His informal training is through many years of intense daily study of God’s Word and prayer. He has been married to his wife Patrice for over 30 years and they have one son, Derrick II, a 2007 Cum Laude graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.