Not all my writing gets mentioned here. These lyrics were missed as well, Would You Speak of Him? To the old tune of "Would You Live for Jesus?" So for those millions of you who follow this site but not my main blog, here's the link.
Also, watch the upcoming issue of Sermon Tree for more of my poems. More on that soon.
We spend so much time, like a fish out of water flops around without results, trying to decide what to do with our life. No plan, no notion, no purpose, we lose time and energy on things that don’t matter, because we lack focus.
Click the link and stop flopping.
But, you see, the Apostle Paul never lived a day of his life, from the time of his conversion to the time that they cut his head off, he never lived a day, that I can find in Scripture, when he wasn't going somewhere to do something that was so consuming that he would die for it. He just traded one of those things in for another one. You see, it was a question of conviction, which precedes the acts of courage. And you can't just say to Christians, "Be courageous." They can run around saying, "I'm going to be courageous." Courageous about what? If you don't have an objective you never get into a situation where you have to be courageous. Nobody ever got courageous sitting on the bench in football. You don't get courageous there; you only get courageous when you get in the game. And a lot of Christians sitting on the bench wonder why they don't have any courage. Don't have any reason to be courageous; you're not doing anything. So there needs to be a goal orientation, an object orientation, you're going somewhere, you're accomplishing something.
We can always be more evangelistic and there will always be missed opportunities, but saying, “Well you should come to services” is not real evangelism. We need to be active in preaching and teaching the Gospel, engaging people in Biblical discussions and studying the Bible with them, not throwing out an invitation and hoping it sticks.
Amen to that!
Jesus sent out the Twelve on what we call a limited commission. A practice run, really, for the Great Commission. And with it a warning, that his sending would not be all cake and ice cream. The sending puts his followers in vulnerable positions. So they must take every precaution to make sure the message was heard in its simplicity and purity.
Read the whole devotional thought by clicking on the little link above.
Do we value acceptance above faithfulness, so that we fail to speak to avoid rejection?