In March, we have a mission focus at Maple Grove. We have a mission team heading to South America. The youth will be attending the Youth Evangelism Conference. We’ll be visited by Rose & Rudy French with their mission reports from Korea and the Philippines. We’ll get to hear the latest from the Gideons and the work that organization is doing spreading the Word of God. We’ll continue to collect for Operation Christmas Child, as we work towards filling those Christmas Shoeboxes to be distributed around the world, along with the message of the saving Grace of Jesus Christ. All that, and more.
But, let’s remember something. The first target group we may encounter is our own family – right when we get home from Church. We need to remember that we should be sharing the Word of God with our families. I think back to the Apostles. We all know about Peter – often the outspoken spokesman for the group. But do you know how Peter learned about Jesus? His brother told him. His brother was Andrew, also an Apostle, but we don’t hear as much about him as we do Peter. Do you think that when Andrew went to find his brother and tell him about Jesus that he (Andrew) had any idea what Peter would become? I doubt it. Do you think that when that shoe salesman, Edward Kimball, kept pressing that young man, D. L. Moody, to come to his Sunday School class that he knew Moody would become an international evangelist, spreading the Word of God? Probably not.
We just never know the impact introducing someone to Jesus Christ will have. We may not know until we get to Heaven. But God will take what you provide and glorify His name.
Maybe that first unreached people group we encounter is on Monday morning at – wait for it – work. What about our friends? Think about that great evangelist, the Apostle Philip. He introduced another Apostle (Nathaniel), who was his friend, to Jesus. How did he do it? Well, he didn’t use lofty words. No great speeches. Fewer words than this post. What did he say? This invitation recorded in John 1:43-46– these simple words – made him an evangelist sharing God’s love:
“We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph….”Come and see.”
“Come and see.” Can we do that? Come and hear? Come and listen? Come and see what God is doing? All those work. Let people see the God you worship. Let them see what God is doing, and bring Him glory. Let them see Him as you let HI slight shine like a city set on a hillside.
Try it!
Bro. Parks