God’s Word to You is
About a recent message concerning how you would share the Gospel without a Bible. Honestly I got about as many responses as I expected. Not many at all. But lets all be honest. Not many Christians are concerned with sharing the Gospel.
That doesn’t excite me or say much for the Christian world but it is a reality.
But for any of you who may struggle with the thought of sharing for any of the many reasons people do I thought I would share a great version of Ephesians that makes the thought process easier.
See, if you read the Bible often, and I hope you do daily, then your mindset may tend to be repeating the Bible almost verse for verse. The challenge isn’t being able to, the challenge is knowing when not to.
What?????
Yep, you may be shocked to know there are a lot of people out there who shut down as soon as you start sharing the truth of the Bible. But those same people will often still listen to you share from your heart and in non-Bible language.
I remember a few times at my first church where I would hear certain men pray and they went from their regular conversational voice to a KJV voice with all of the thee, thou and other words used in that Bible. It was still often a powerful prayer, and again I am not ever going to say don’t know Bible verses, but as an atheist hearing those prayers they didn’t seem genuine to me since I knew those guys didn’t talk like that all the time.
The point is simple though. We know how we got saved if we did and we all have our own testimony of meeting Him. So in our own words we should be able to share who He is and what He has and is doing. I read this verse in The Message Bible and loved it. I hope it helps.
I pray it may help any of you who struggle for whatever reason in sharing Jesus. And yes, He did tell us to. Heck it is the main reason He left us here after we met Him.
Ephesians 2:7-10
7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
me n’ God love ya