Jim Howard is currently serving as Senior Pastor of two churches in Southeast Michigan—Detroit Metropolitan Seventh-day Adventist Church and New Beginnings Seventh-day Adventist Church. He serves as the District Superintendent in the Detroit area as well as serving on the Training Center Church (TCC) committee of the Michigan Conference. His special burden is to see a revival of personal soul-winning labor by not only pastors, but everyone who claims to be a disciple of Christ. Jim and his wife, Sonya, have two beautiful daughters, Kayla and Lindsey.
Every soul in every Conference, in every part of the Lord's vineyard, has the privilege of knowing the truth. But truth is not truth to those who do not practice it. Truth is only truth to you when you live it in the daily life, showing the world what those people must be who are at last saved. {GCB, April 3, 1901 par. 10}
There are those to whom the truth is not truth. The work of the Redeemer exerts no restoring influence upon their lives. The will of God is not obeyed. The countless mercies and blessings bestowed on them are received as a matter of course. What is the matter? They do not obey the injunction, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind." {ST, September 12, 1900 par. 9}
Every soul in every Conference, in every part of the Lord's vineyard, has the privilege of knowing the truth. But truth is not truth to those who do not practice it. Truth is only truth to you when you live it in the daily life, showing the world what those people must be who are at last saved. {1888 1744.2} "Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance." {1888 1744.3}
