Happy New Year! What are your resolutions? I liked this quote by Francis Chan: "Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." What does really matter? Here are two items that really cut to the chase of Christianity, so let's work on them
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Mt 28:19-20)
"Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation; to keep oneself unstained from the world." (James 1:27)
We're Christ's team in 2016! Let's do it!
"For the entire Law is fulfilled in in this one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."—Gal 5:14
Filtering by Category: Discipleship
The difference between 1 and 0.
Can a person do God's will if they don't try and make new Christians? Can they glorify God? Jesus said, "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters," and, "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away...My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples."" (Luke 11:23; John 15:2;8)
Did you know that 1/0 is undefined, but it can almost be thought of as "approaching infinity?" That's because 1 is, in a strange way, basically infinitely greater than 0. The difference between 1 and 0 is HUGE! Making just ONE new Christian in your lifetime makes almost an infinite amount of difference.
Let's work with Jesus and prove to be His disciples, bringing God glory by adding new Christians to the Kingdom!
(OTOH, if we just tromp around where Jesus is going, but aren't doing what He's doing, we're more likely to trample things underfoot and scatter the harvest—NOT GOOD!)