As we look back over our lives, most of us have fond memories of happy, prosperous days when life was good and times were plentiful. How much happier those memories would be if they include those with whom we shared the Gospel and helped lead to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. Join us this week as we talk sharing the way of salvation with others.
Scripture: Luke 10:1-12, 17
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
“When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.' But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.' I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.”
The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
Now it is your commissioning service that Christ wants to preside over. As He challenged the early disciples, so today Jesus challenges us to tell others what He can do for them. All He asks you to do is to share with others what it means to live each day free of guilt because Christ has taken it away. Think of the encouragement it can be for a single mother to know that she has a Savior who will strengthen her to face the future. She will have brothers and sisters in Christ who will be there to help when the hours are long and difficult. I was visiting with such a mother recently. Her children were small, and her husband was sent to prison. “Had it not been for the Lord Jesus and my Christian friends, I would never have made it,” she told me. But what if those friends had not surrounded her with that redeeming love?
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On the Light Side
A missionary working in Brazil was visiting a parishioner and was offered a beverage. Because caffeine had been causing him some health problems, he refused first her offer of coffee and then tea because it could have been made from any type of disparaging leaf. He also refused water because he wasn't sure it would be pure. Deciding he should not press his luck by refusing anything else, he accepted a glass of lukewarm milk with thick cream at the top.
As he began to drink, he noticed something swimming in the milk and underneath the cream discovered a large cockroach doing the backstroke. That was too much. He quickly threw the milk out a large, open window behind him, relieved to have been able to save face.
The problem wasn’t solved that easily, however, for in through the door came a little boy with milk running down his face and crying, “Mommy, mommy, that big man threw milk all over me.”
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