Whatever it takes :: Wednesday E-Devotion

Are we getting it out? I mean the message. Are people hearing the truth of God apart from having to search for the message or work their way through a maze to get it?

Far too often the church puts up barriers to people hearing the message. Sometimes the barriers consist of tradition, yet it can also consist of confusion, mis-trust, and countless other items. Point being this: we have to do 'what ever it takes' to get people to hear.

Put it on billboards. Record it on loud music CD's to give away. Do a concert on the dock in downtown big city. Write it in the sky. Just do something. How willing is your church and mine to get His message heard?

I like this version of the verse about how much we are to love God ...

"so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy." Mark 12:30 (MSG)

Out commitment must be ...

"So don't be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, his prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God." 2 Timothy 1:8 (MSG)

"If I proclaim the Message, it's not to get something out of it for myself. I'm compelled to do it, and doomed if I don't!" 1 Corinthians 9:16 (MSG)

There is no price too high for us to pass. Jesus died for us.

There is no situation too tough or uncomfortable for us to go through. By His pain we gained eternal life.

There is no place we shouldn't be willing to go to get the message out. He did it on foot for three year. We have every convenience and opportunity, from the internet to jet airplanes.

Orchard family, to what extent will we go to, what price are we willing to pay, what mountain are we willing to climb just so one more person will come to Jesus? It may cost us everything. But it is worth it, and I will do whatever it takes.

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