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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Editor's Note:
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This week Phil is in Uganda, Africa with 15 other bloggers
who are seeing first-hand the work of Compassion International.
You can read the moving story of Phil personally meeting
Doreen, the little girl his family sponsors:
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200802/20080213_doreen.html
He is posting updates from his trip on his blog:
http://blogs.heartlight.org/phil/
Please prayerfully consider taking part in this effort!
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Checking Out Jesus
Jesus went away with his followers to the lake. Many people
from Galilee followed him. Many, many people also came from
Judea, from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from the area across the
Jordan River, and from the area around Tyre and Sidon. These
people came because they heard about all the things Jesus was
doing.
-- Mark 3:7-8 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
So often the people who think they don't believe in Jesus have never
been exposed to Jesus. Jesus meets us in many ways, but there are at
least two ways that are crucial for most unbelievers. One of the most
important ways for folks to meet Jesus is by experiencing him through
the Gospel stories. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John contain these Gospel
stories in the New Testament.) A second way for outsiders to experience
Jesus is through the presence of Jesus in the world today -- through
the compassion, care, and character of Jesus' Body, the people of his
church. In both of these cases, the invitation is nearly always the
same: "Come. See for yourself!" One of our biggest opportunities to
bring people to Christ is to invite them to meet Jesus and not just
trust what they've heard about him. So let's invite people to do this
by giving away free copies of the Gospels to others (The Bible
societies offer these very economically!), inviting them to appropriate
movies, or giving them historically accurate video copies of Jesus'
life. Let's invite folks to come "meet" Jesus and "see him for
themselves."
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father, use me to invite people to come meet Jesus. Open my eyes to see
those searching for him and fashion my life so that it is an
appropriate example to them in their search. I pray this in Jesus'
name. Amen.
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