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STATEMENT OF FAITH

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RAS ROBINSON'S TESTIMONY

BEV ROBINSON'S TESTIMONY

ABOUT RAS AND BEV ROBINSON -- Biographical Information


 

Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

 

Core Values

1.  We are Christian.  We are committed to serving God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Everything we do is an expression of our commitment to honoring God our Father and to following Jesus.  It is our desire to give every person to whom we minister in any way the opportunity to accept Jesus as Savior. 

2. We are connected.  We are committed to partnership.  We work with local indigenous pastors and churches, seeking to encourage and reinforce their ministry to their communities.  Our donors and sponsors recognize that they are partners in a larger plan.  With FCM giving oversight and leadership, our FCM team, the local pastors and the sponsors and donors work together as a team in shared ministry.

3. We are concerned for the poor.  God makes it plain in Scripture that He is interested in the poor and in how they are treated.  We are committed to serving poor children and assisting them to become all God has destined for them to become.

4. We are careful stewards.  We are committed to take seriously the trust placed in us by donors and sponsors.  We realize the resources are a trust from God and we commit to having high standards of financial accountability.

 

Testimony of Faith
Ras Robinson

It was a Saturday afternoon, I was 12 years old.  A man dressed in a black suit drove into the driveway at our farm.  He was our new Methodist pastor whom we had not yet met.  He walked out into the potato field where my dad and I were planting.  He explained very clearly that God had chosen me to be His child and that He had a destiny and future for me.  I had a choice whether or not to place my faith in Jesus as my Savior and Lord.  To me, the choice was easy and I eagerly accepted the offer of salvation that day.

Believing in Jesus Christ as my personal savior was the real thing. I remember it well and with great clarity. It happened on a Saturday afternoon at our home near Ovett, Mississippi, near Laurel, south of Jackson, the Mississippi state capitol. The next day, on Sunday, I professed before our church, Mount Olive Methodist Church, that Jesus had come into my heart and that I had given my heart to Him. That same afternoon, after a hearty meal at our once a month “dinner on the grounds” event, I was baptized by immersion into the spring-fed cold waters of Mill Creek, near the church.

My parents gave me a Bible to read.  Daily I marked and dated what I had read. His word came alive in me.  I fell in love with God’s word and hungered to know more.

As I would walk from our home to and from public school functions, I walked alone. Soon I discovered that Jesus was walking with me. He and I would talk about things concerning me. But at times, we would just share our hearts with one another. He gave me identity, purpose and hope of a destiny that would make me to be someone special in this world. Jesus was as real as my mom and dad. I guess I just assumed that everyone had this same relationship with our Lord.

Today, I believe the most important thing a Christian can experience and possess is faith in Jesus Christ and His presence in their life on a daily basis. Can you imagine walking and talking with Jesus right through the issues and circumstances of life? Is it possible? Yes, it is. For you who are reading this right now, I want you to know this great truth and reality.

Come with me, please, into His presence. And if you look through the eyes of your faith, you can see and experience His glory in all things of life. He is here, just as He promised. His presence is with us. His glory abounds all around us.  We often pray in church services for the Lord to “come.”  We plead with the Holy Spirit to “presence Himself with us.”  But the truth is that the Lord and the Spirit are always with us.  The problem is on our end.  Our hearts need to be repentant and hungry for God!  He manifests His presence.

After graduating from high school, I spent four wonderful years in the United States Air Force.  God allowed this poor country boy to travel extensively to several international places like Japan, Philippine Islands, Hong Kong, Okinawa and Greenland.  God blessed me in each place with good and vibrant church experiences while on the military bases.  In addition, He gave me a dear friend and mentor for much of that time.  He was a strong Christian leader in his own right and later pastored several churches here in America. 

While in the military, I attended the University of the Philippines and completed my freshman year of college.  Afterwards, I attended McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana before transferring to Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from which I received both the Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees. God is good.  His presence has always been with me.

I married at age 18, just days before going overseas.  My wife Margaret and I didn’t even have time to set up a home.  She became pregnant, and she and the baby died in childbirth.  At the time I was stationed in the Philippines.  This experience changed my life.  Out of sorrow God showed me His love and I wanted to go tell everyone that no matter what you go through, God’s love will comfort and take care of you.

Three years later I married Beverly Jane Hartsfield.  While in Baton Rouge, Bev and I were led to join the local Baptist church near our home.  I was brought in faith and understanding from Methodism into the Southern Baptist faith and message.  For the first time, I began to learn about grace in my walk with God and people.  It was wonderful.  My spiritual foundations are strong because of it.

Immediately upon graduation from LSU, I was given employment at the Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, TN for fourteen years.  The last five of those years was spent as head of the Broadman Products Department.  During this time I prayed to be filled with the Holy Spirit and began to publish books on the Holy Spirit.  At the end of that season we were publishing over 100 books a year plus Christian music, church supplies, and films and other Christian products.  The favor of God often humbled me as He poured out blessing after blessing.  It was truly amazing what God did!

In 1974, Bev and I received a calling from God in the area of spiritual renewal and revival.  We left Nashville in 1975 and began itinerant travel over America and to several international locations.  We helped begin, edit and publish a Christian magazine, Fulness Magazine, with the purpose of equipping, edifying and encouraging the body of Christ, providing a bridge for those leaving conservative traditions and entering the Spirit filled life.  After fourteen years, we felt the purposes of the magazine had been accomplished and we ceased publication in 1991.

During those years, God brought favor to write several books and booklets, including “How to Receive God’s Anointing” and “Taking Away the Devil’s Opportunity (With Jack R. Taylor).”  My wife and I also wrote many articles for Fulness Magazine and continue a writing ministry today.

In 1991, God led us to begin Fullness in Christ Ministries (FCM), Incorporated and Fullness in Christ Church (FCC), Fort Worth, Texas where we still serve as pastors.  At that time, we also launched Fullness on Line Website: http://www.fullnessonline.org  Today, in addition to our pastoring assignment from God, on our website we sponsor a “Connecting the Net” ministry through FullnessNetwork, Prayer-Warrior Fellowship List, Fast Track Mentoring, Fullness Conferences and Fullness Missions to the Philippine Islands, Peru and Mexico.  We also publish on the website articles and other materials for Christians and the church.

On January 6, 2001, we began to send over the internet a brief, daily prophetic word called “What the Lord Is Saying Today.”  It is intended to offer the reader encouragement, strength and comfort. God promised me that if I would write exactly what He says to me and check with no man He would bless the words.  He has certainly blessed now with over 8,500 active subscribers.  It is sent free of charge.  To subscribe or send to someone else, go to: fullnessonline-subscribe@MyInJesus 

Currently, God has said to us: “Begin networking the networks so that My kingdom (God’s rule in the hearts of mankind) can be established and become fully functioning before I return to set up My new kingdom.  I want you to get prepared for what is about to take place in these latter days.  My presence will go with you.”

When once you discover His salvation, presence and glory, you will never want to leave it. The Lord is still saying to us today: “I am with you to the end and will never leave you.”

 

Testimony of Faith
Bev Robinson

My journey of faith started early, before I had any inkling of what was going on. My faith in God had little depth. Nevertheless, God was at work bringing me to Him. All I remember is going to church a time or two as a child and coloring something.

As a pre-teen my family did not attend church, except for a couple of times. One time the preacher gave a message about not drinking liquor and the discussion on the way home was that we would not go back there again. That episode was followed a few years later with a message by the pastor about tithing. We didn't go back again.

My mother died when I was six years old. I moved quite often. At 13, I moved in with a family that once was very active in church.  They didn't attend at that time, but they thought kids ought to go to church.  I was counted as one of their kids. So my church experience really started in Eight Mile Baptist Church outside of Mobile, Alabama. I loved church. The teens and adults loved and accepted me. But I had no idea what they were talking about when Jesus was mentioned. I thought the word "Jesus" was a slang or curse word. I didn't know who He was. I thought maybe He was the man pictured in my stepmother's billfold. The picture was of the Pope. I had no concept that one man would love me enough to die for me.

People in the church would say I want you to be one of us. O how I wanted that. Then one day after holding on the back of the pew in front of me with white knuckles, I got enough courage to walk down front and accept the church.

I continued to love church, even when I moved again with a different family at age 15 who went to church. I had a hard time believing all the stories in the Bible. They sounded a lot like the story books I had read as a child. When someone said they really happened, I thought to myself---you have got to be kidding, a fish swallowing a man, a donkey that talks and animals riding in an ark. This was too wild to believe.

I attended church while I went to college. I received a degree, double majoring in microbiology and chemistry. Not being grounded in the Scriptures, I became grounded in evolution and science.

To complicate the matter I later married Ras Robinson, a Christian. Out of College he took a job with the Southern Baptist publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee. He was always studying the Bible, not for any particular reason except for his hunger. I wore his ears out peppering him with questions about the authenticity of the Scriptures. I though I was a Christian because I had gone through the whole bit of holding onto the pew until my knuckles turned white and, after all, I walked down the aisle.

But even while teaching youth in Sunday School I was always looking for someone who had a science background to "think things through with me." I could not reconcile science and Christianity. I saw Ras believing with no trouble at all. There was a girl whom I taught in Sunday School, a physics major in Vanderbilt University. I would get her off to the side and ask her how she knew there was a God. She said the same way I know there is an atom. I can see the results and I just believe. I wasn't able to do that.

God in His wisdom, and I believe sense of humor, brought me to the point of salvation. While I was looking for someone proficient in science to help me, God brought a slow talking preacher. He gave a simple but logical presentation one Sunday morning during a revival meeting. The preacher held up his black Bible and said, "This is either the truth or the biggest pack of lies ever perpetrated on mankind." That made perfect sense to me. I had seen a couple of people that I could discern that they really believed, Ras being one of them. I decided to believe. Only then did real belief begin to come. I walked down the aisle again with no trouble this time and that night was water baptized as a believer in Jesus.

That is the same route of faith I have been on ever since. I have heard preachers say, "It is simple, anyone can believe" I cringe for those who find it hard to believe.

It was that way with me when praying to be filled with the Spirit. I have had people ask me, "Was that a second experience?" I say yes and a third and a fourth and many more after that. God fills us when we are saved, but we leak. It is always the same way. I make the choice, and then real belief from the heart soon takes over when I don't entertain unbelief. Whether it was when I was healed of a brain tumor, or was delivered from a familial spirit of divorce, or believing for God's best for my children and grandchildren, the church and ministry or on and on ad infinitum

One of my very favorite Scriptures, one I even have embossed on the front of one of my Bibles, is: Colossians 2:6, "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, The same path of faith that you use to come to Christ is the same way you live each day."

Another Scripture that has come to mean much to me is: Hebrews 4:2, "For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not UNITED by faith in those who heard."

The word united, mixed or combined is a very, very strong word here. The word picture is that of strong digestive enzymes being combined with food to supply what the body needs for nourishment. That is the way of faith. God is always giving us something to believe Him for, something to chew on.

The Christian life is not complicated. In fact, the further along I go towards maturing in the walk of faith I find the process to be more childlike in trust, in forgiveness, with a greater peace, fuller joy, and deeper love.

I assume you are already on this journey of faith since you are reading this. If not, I pray right now for you to take the leap of faith, and grow in childlike maturity.

 

About Ras and Bev Robinson
Biographical Information

Ras Robinson is the founder of Fullness in Christ Church in Fort Worth, Texas where he still serves as overseeing apostle.  He is also president of Fullness in Christ Ministries, Inc..   He ministers in the five-fold gifting of apostle and is a popular conference speaker and author.  His wife, Bev, is an author, artist and conference speaker. Together they share a vision to see bonfires of revival sweep America, restoring the church to all God intends.  

Ras, with a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Louisiana State University, and many years experience in management and leadership, is uniquely gifted in recognizing and training leaders.  This gifting has opened the door for him to successfully work with pastors and leaders across the country.  

Ras was editor of Fulness Magazine from 1977 to 1990, a publication dedicated to encouragement in knowing the fullness of Christ, equipping Christians to minister and declaring the glory of the Lord.  

Ras was head of Broadman Press publications and served as manager of Broadman Products Department, producing Christian materials such as books, films, tapes and audio-visuals and various other church supplies for Southern Baptists and other churches.  He served at the Baptist Sunday School Board a total of fifteen years in various leadership positions, working with pastors, seminaries and other agencies.

He resigned in 1975 to answer a call to preach and teach a message of spiritual awakening.  This resignation followed a spiritual renewal in his life during 1970-75.  In 1974 his call was confirmed and a promise given that spiritual awakening was coming to America and that he would be a part of it as an evangelist/prophet.  This confirmation and promise came from Luke 4:18-19 and Isaiah 52:7-8.  His basic message is spiritual awakening for today.

Bev is a trained and experienced microbiologist with extensive training in chemistry.  She is author of the recently published book, Convergence: Quantum Physics, Scripture and Prophecy.  God has also gifted her in artistic expression.  She served for over twelve years as artist and art consultant for Fulness Ministries.  She now expresses this gift through beautiful calligraphy.  

Bev is also an anointed and popular teacher.  Perhaps her greatest gift is her love for God's word and the ability to impart with disarming transparency the great truths of practical theology for daily living as a real person being empowered by a supernatural God.

They have two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  They live in Fort Worth, Texas

 



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