Those Crazy Christians

I'm not advocating sitting around in sunglasses and a "Turn or Burn" T-shirt, but I have heard this guy has been a persistent presence on a particular college campus, and my guess is he has sparked a lot of conversation.

All of us have probably met someone that has professed the name of Jesus and weirded us out at one time or another, and I'm also not advocating being weird in a way that creeps people out.

However, I am thinking that some of us might be able to do a better job at stirring things up for the sake and cause of Jesus then we do.

The early apostles were pretty determined to get the word out in Jerusalem about Jesus.

So one came and told them, saying, "Look, the men [Peter and John] whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!" Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, "Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man's blood on us!" But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men. (Act 5:25-29)

We are told by the word of God that we are to respect the ordinances of men and the authorities that are over us, ("having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men"— 1Pe 2:12-15), but we have a command to perform the mission of getting the gospel of Jesus Christ out to the masses.

So how are we doing? Could you be accused of trying to fill your community with the message of Jesus Christ?

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.