The Divine Crash

The picture you are looking at is what happened to me 30 seconds before church started.  We were showing a DVD of VBS songs that the kids sang during the week and I knelt down to turn it off and my pants ripped.  I had to cover myself with my Bible and sneak out of church to run home and go change.  This is a Sunday I will never forget!

You can listen to the sermon after the jump, or click here to open iTunes and download the podcast.

Today’s sermon was about how to make disciples.  Jesus said that his disciples would be his witnesses to the whole world.  If I were the disciple my question would be how!!

How do we make disciples, be a witness to Jesus, invite people to a relationship with Jesus, or whatever term is used these days?

It starts with people, it isn’t a program or a pastor or any fancy prayer it starts with people getting out of their comfort zones and talking to people that are different than them, that don’t know about Jesus.

Sometimes that means our gay neighbor, or sometimes it means our kids, or even our parents.

73% of people who do not attend church have never been invited.

37% of people say they have “religious” friends that do not talk about religion to them.

If we claim that Jesus is the way, truth, and life why don’t we talk about this? Why don’t we invite people to a way of life that actually matters?

After we have done that it becomes time to invite them to a place that is safe, open, and allows them to communion with other believers and God with as few obstacles as possible.

When the church puts obstacles between a person and God that cannot stand, it must change, and can never be tolerated.

But having people come in is not enough, sometimes silence is the best way to worship God but, no matter what our age or our length of time with God we need to teaching.  We need to be in a daily relationship with God. Talking to, reading about, and learning about the God who became flesh to die for us.  We can never be close to a God we don’t talk to.

Then after all that, we go to the big church word called “Missions.”  But missions is really that first step all over again.  Where we find our friends and tell them about Jesus.  Sometimes it means we go to Zimbabwe, other times it means we go next door.

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