This week has been completely eye opening. I spend the majority of my time with people who share the same belief system, passion, and even hobbies as I do. While we manage to challenge each other through those times together, that challenging is for a cause. This week is the cause.
I am surrounded by great people this week. They are fun, caring, overall good people. Yet, not one of them has truly embraced a walk with Jesus Christ. They throw around the words "baptist," "catholic," "when I was in church,"and other phrases as if that is all there is to it. Sometimes I wish we would just annihilate denominations. One bible. One Jesus. One God. One Spirit. Nothing else. As I hang with these folks, I am shown for sure that they are not getting the message of the gospel as it should be. They are getting the message that this denomination is disgusted by that one, who is even more disgusted by another. Maybe they had an awful experience as kids, or with their parents, or just on their own. Maybe they just don't care. The point is they see Jesus as a religion and we are somehow not reaching them with actual truth from the word of God.
God, people like this are around us ALL THE TIME. Please help us to notice. Please help us to care like you care. Please burden us everyday for these people. Please use us (me) today to share the true gospel with them.
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That is a rockin point!!!
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