As I woke up this morning, I felt God really tugging on my heart. So I prayed, and I found myself yearning for more of Him. I then was led to read "The Coming World Revival" by Robert Coleman... I have never heard of this book before, but I found it in our library and felt compelled to start reading.
I have read a lot of stuff that I will blog about soon, but this jumped out at me the most.
An atheist once wrote in derision:
Did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another... I should esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences should never stay my hand nor seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its grief, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone and on the immortal souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable. I would go forth to the world and preach it in season and out of season, and my text would be "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
This powerful statement has rocked my world. You may not fully understand it the first time, but read it until you get it. He is saying that, if he were a Christian, he would strive for nothing else than to tell people about Christ! That he would go through the worldly pain, that he would do anything to let people know about the everlasting happiness.
Its funny what we could learn from an atheist. And this is not the first atheist that has come out and made these statements. I know some that have personally. I think it should be a wake up call. In my opinion, we should not feel bad for telling someone the gospel! We should feel bad if we don't!
We have the key to LIFE! And yet we hate our friends so much that we don't show them life.
What have we come to? As I pray and meditate, what needs to be done to wake up this generation and make us realize that we need to share Christ?! Yes, we need to share it in love. But also, yes, we need to share it! We need to have a sense of urgency!
I believe that if your heart isn't captivated on spreading the gospel to the ends of the earth, then there is definitely a problem. There is a disconnection with you and the Father. Because, you may not be able to travel to the unreached. But you can do 2 things that will help the unreached hear the gospel.
1. Pray. Pray that God sends people there. Pray just that the gospel will be sent to the ends of the earth.
2. Share Christ where you are at. First of all, you are expanding the kingdom. Lives will be forever changed. And second of all, that person you are leading to Christ here, may be called to go out into the world. But if you never led that person to Christ here, then that person can never go there!
It is beautiful how God has made it this way. We can all have our hands on global missions! We just first need to be captivated with the mission!
We are to be sold out for THE cause! To reach and teach men and women, boys and girls for Christ!!!
Do you care for your friends? Do you care for your community?
Share Jesus.
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