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Good news! God loves you! He even sent His only begotten Son to save us all! But as much as God loves us all, do we all love each other? Now, if we love our fellow neighbours, there is one gift we can lead others too that is better than any other gift on earth – the gift of salvation.
But do we try to tell people about the Good News? A lot of us probably don’t. There are obstacles that prevent us from telling people about Jesus. You may ask, how will it affect a friendship if the other person doesn’t want to accept Jesus? Or how do you tell someone about Jesus at work, when you could be punished for “religious intolerance”? Maybe you don’t want to have people mocking you, and Christianity, when you try? Or maybe you do try, but nobody seems to listen to you? Or maybe you want to spread the Word, but you don’t know where to begin, or you think your knowledge won’t be enough to convince someone that Jesus is here to save them? And even if you know you have what it takes, maybe you don’t have the self-confidence to go out there and do it?
These are all fears that many Christians have. But God shall prevail. We as Christians should always be trying to win souls. The Bible speaks of wisdom and understanding quite a lot. It says
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
When the Bible speaks of wise people, it doesn’t refer to people who know the capital city for every country on earth, or people who can speak 10 languages. People with understanding of the Word, people who win souls, they are the wise ones. In this world, people believe that wisdom comes from studying at university. If you’re a man in a white coat with a degree, you’re wise. Mostly those people are atheists, and scientists will spend many years looking for answers to life’s greatest questions, but they will not find them as they reject the Scriptures. The Bible has a nice passage for these people:
Romans 1:22-25 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
But do we try to tell people about the Good News? A lot of us probably don’t. There are obstacles that prevent us from telling people about Jesus. You may ask, how will it affect a friendship if the other person doesn’t want to accept Jesus? Or how do you tell someone about Jesus at work, when you could be punished for “religious intolerance”? Maybe you don’t want to have people mocking you, and Christianity, when you try? Or maybe you do try, but nobody seems to listen to you? Or maybe you want to spread the Word, but you don’t know where to begin, or you think your knowledge won’t be enough to convince someone that Jesus is here to save them? And even if you know you have what it takes, maybe you don’t have the self-confidence to go out there and do it?
These are all fears that many Christians have. But God shall prevail. We as Christians should always be trying to win souls. The Bible speaks of wisdom and understanding quite a lot. It says
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
When the Bible speaks of wise people, it doesn’t refer to people who know the capital city for every country on earth, or people who can speak 10 languages. People with understanding of the Word, people who win souls, they are the wise ones. In this world, people believe that wisdom comes from studying at university. If you’re a man in a white coat with a degree, you’re wise. Mostly those people are atheists, and scientists will spend many years looking for answers to life’s greatest questions, but they will not find them as they reject the Scriptures. The Bible has a nice passage for these people:
Romans 1:22-25 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.