Greetings one and all! I hope and pray everyone out there is having a good day and week.
Lately I’ve been reading You Lost Me by David Kinnaman. This is an excellent book, by the way. I hope to blog a review of the book after I finish reading the book in its entirety.
Right now I’m reading his chapter on younger Christians who feel a passionate about reaching out to the world in the name of Christ, but don’t feel like the church is equipping them or helping them minister to the lost in the world. It seems like Kinnaman is saying the church needs to be as Jesus said of the apostles in John’s Gospel: to be in but not of the world.
This definitely renews my passion for and desire to work (or volunteer) in a campus and outreach ministry setting. I hope, pray, and desire to see God’s people equipped to reach out to college students on local campuses, and to those in the community and to win them for Jesus. To see them grow in their faith and actively participate in the church to win more people to Jesus.
Jesus said all throughout the Gospels that He was sent to seek and save the lost. In Luke 15 Jesus told three stories with the same central theme: some thing was lost and then it was found. When whatever was lost was found, everyone rejoiced. When the lost are saved, God and all who are in heaven rejoice even more then we.
In the book of Jonah, when the people of Ninevah repented and Jonah was angry about it (how on earth could that be possible??) God told him there were thousands of people there who didn’t know their right hand from their left. Why should He not be concerned about that great city?
Why should we not be concerned about the lost all around us? I hope and pray all of God’s churches will equip their own people to get out into the world and bring the lost to Jesus.
Thank you for reading my thoughts today. Of course any and all thoughts, comments, questions, etc are always welcomed and encouraged.
God bless. Grace and Peace.
Zack
BTW, I should have mentioned You Lost Me was published in 2011 by Baker Books in Grand Rapids, MI. Author: David Kinnaman.
Great comments Zack! So glad you do this blog.
Thank you Brother Casey! Appreciate it! Appreciate you. I hope & pray all is well at Ole Miss & Oxford, MS. God bless.