"What our world often witnesses today is a devoted, committed Christian or a church serving God. But they are not seeing God. They don't see anything happening that can be explained only in terms of God's activity. Why? Because we are not attempting anything that only God can do.
Our world is not being attracted to the Christ we serve because they are not seeing Him at work in our lives. They see us doing good things for God and comment "That's nice, but it's not my thing." The world is passing us by because they do not want to get involved in what they see in our lives. We are not giving them opportunities to encounter God. They are seeing only us. Let the world watch God at work, and He will attract people to Himself.
Let Christ be lifted up, not in words but in life.
Let people see the difference the living Christ makes in a life, a family, or a church; that will affect how they respond to the gospel.
When the world sees things happening through God's people that cannot be explained except that God Himself has done them, the world will be drawn to such a God."
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At the church I used to go to in Delware, there was this guy we called "Big Jim." (His name was Jim and he was Big. He's still around.) He coined crazy phrases like "God-incidence" and would write these ridiculously long e-mails about how he and his organization (whichever of the many he was helping or heading at the time) would pray for what they need... and then decide they needed to pray for more, because what they needed was too small a prayer request for such a big God. So they would pray for more... and God would fill their nets to the point of tearing.
ReplyDeleteI tried picking up his habit. All I can say is it's a dangerous, but thrilling, thing to pray...