12: "For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--The same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,"
13: "for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
14: "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?"
15: "And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!""
I sit here in my comfortable room on my nice computer having just eaten a nice meal cooked by my loving mother and I am just completely broken by these words. This really puts things into perspective. Statistics say that 95% of all professing Christians will never share the Good News of Jesus Christ with a non-believer. Many of the non-believers in educated and developing countries will not accept the Gospel for the simple fact that there is so much hypocrisy in the Church today. I am not trying to judge you, the reader, I am just telling you the current general consensus of Christians. "People do crazy things when they are in love", this should be especially true with your relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus wants us to tell everyone that we encounter about Jesus, plain and simple. Jesus wants us to have a deep, intimate, personal relationship with Jesus, which should lead to you WANTING to tell every single person that you run into about Jesus! How awesome is that?
An analogy that Adrian Despres used was a comparison to cancer. The way that you should be able to tell that someone believes in Hell is if they tell people about Christ. How many of you, if you had the cure to cancer, would just conceal it and go about your life like it did not matter to you? No one with a conscious would keep the cure for cancer to themselves! Well guess what, Christians have the cure to hell, which is 1000 times worse than cancer, which is a great exaggeration. So, why is it that we, as Christians, with the cure to hell, actively choose to conceal it and go about your life like it does not matter? Think about it for a minute. Seriously.
So, go back and read the verses you skimmed over at the top. Really read them. These words are alive, I can promise you! We as Christians, are forgiven of our sins, which allows to to go to heaven. Jesus has interceded for us so that we do not have to suffer God's wrath!!!! Unfortunately, this does not apply to those who have never heard of or believed in Jesus. So, let me say this again...
"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?"
I think I need to pause here and clarify this last question. This is not, by any means or in any way, saying that only people who are "called" to be evangelists can preach to those who have never heard, so that they can believe and call on Jesus. Now, I am also not saying that everyone is supposed to go overseas to preach. I am saying that if you are in love with Jesus, that you should be telling every single person that you encounter on your life's journey about the lord Jesus Christ. Dr. Lowe put as being a signpost. A signpost's only purpose is to point onto something greater than itself. If the signpost does not point anywhere, what good is it doing? And if a signpost points to itself, it is not a signpost at all, it is a monument, which does nothing but sit there and boast about itself, but no matter how much "glory" it gains, it will never be able to go anywhere.
For a much more in depth and well worded look into this subject matter, I strongly recommend that you read Radical Chapter 7.
His,
Bryan Britt
Proverbs 3:5-6
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