Who we are.

Welcome to the Home Page of Third Street Ministries, Inc., your source for information about Lay Ministries in Rome, Georgia.

While Third Street Ministries. Inc.  is based upon Methodist principles and doctrine, it is operated as a non-denominational, non-profit service.

We hope to keep you informed as to the needs and services of this non-denominational ministry as it applies to our home town of Rome.

Here you will be able to find information and photos of 
Street Ministries, Audios of lay sermons (windows media player required), links to other pages of interest, and other useful information.

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“The one mission and function of the visible church is this: working together with Jesus Christ to ‘reconcile the world unto God.’ St. Paul does not say to reconcile God to the world.” 

“The Monk & The Prince”:     
Attucus G. Haygood, Sr.  1895


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“What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven?” 

“If your heart is closed, then you will find nothing behind that door to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into the light.” 

“One Door away from Heaven,
We live each day and hour.
One door away from Heaven,
But it lies beyond our power
To open the door to Heaven
And enter when we choose.
One door away from Heaven,
And the key is ours to lose.
One door away from Heaven,
But, oh, the entry dues”. 

 “One Door Away From Heaven”,  
Dean Koontz: Bantam Books, 2001 


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The Jabez Prayer

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” 
So God granted him what he requested.

 1 Chronicles 4: 10 (NKJV)

Why do street ministry? 

Unconditional Positive Regard

 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God”  
  NRSV Ephesians 2: 8

 Works Do Matter
“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.”
  NRSV Ephesians 2: 10

We are not only expected to do good deeds but were actually created to accomplish them.  John Wesley’s union of justification by faith and going on to perfection does describe the biblical understanding of the life of those in Christ. We are both believers and dowers, people of both faith and good works. Either is barren by itself, as the letter of James reminds us:

“For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.”  NRSV James 2: 26

 What Makes Us One Body?
 One: The death of Jesus Christ has destroyed all distinctions of race and nationality. Where ever people are and whatever their background, they are now one people.

“14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 
15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.”    
  NRSV Ephesians 2: 14-16 

Two: We are united even though we do different things for Christ. The differences do not matter. As individuals, groups, and denominations, we are gifted in different ways; yet we can all belong to the Body as long as we are serving the head, Jesus Christ. Individuals and denominations need not fight over their differences. They can rejoice that God has called each to do separate ministries, which, when combined, express the work of God.

“for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.”
  NRSV Ephesians 2: 18

The Secret Is Out.
 Jesus Christ has become the source of a new personal salvation and the center of a new universal kinship. We are all one body, one spirit, one race. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Making the story known is the responsibility of each disciple, regardless of personal circumstances. It is also a responsibility of the whole Body, the church. 

“that is, the Gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” 
  NRSV Ephesians 3: 6 

“so that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.”
  NRSV Ephesians 3: 10 

The Whole Concept

“20 Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen".
    NRSV  Ephesians 3: 20-21.