So this past sunday night at the BCM leadership meeting, I was given information on people who had shown an interest in wanting a personal relationship with Jesus. After already planning on going out witnessing with Brad, Clay, and Sarah...the plans changed and Clay, Brad, and I decided to call these people up. The guy I first called said that he was saved back when he was 10, but that he had gotten into a little bit of partying in college and was trying to get back to God....which, as Clay and I discovered implies that he received the Word at once with joy but his plant actually had not root at all, thus no salvation, and he was pulled up. I asked him the question, why did you "accept" Jesus and go down front? To which he responded that he grew up in church and wanted to do it because he saw others do it. I asked him if he had ever at one point in his life realized that he was going to Hell for his sin if he didn't turn to Jesus, to which he answered, "No". I was shocked....As I shared with him the whole reason Jesus gave His life, he still acted as though it wasn't that big of a deal that he had done it for the wrong reasons....what is scary is the Bible says that it would be better if these people were never born! I mean, what a horrible thing to say about someone. I pray that God would convict him of his sin and lack of salvation and point him to Himself. Then, Clay called a girl on my phone who acknowledged that without Christ, Hell would be her destiny and stated that she wanted to turn from her sins to Him. Though she was quite emotional, I guess time will show whether or not that seed was planted on good soil and will produce fruit of a new creation in her. It is scary to think that some people think they are saved and in reality are not. I pray for our campus to have eyes to see their hoplessness apart from totally surrendering all to God's Son and living a life worthy of their calling.
The Christmas holiday brings with it questions of both the incarnation and the trustworthiness of its record. Was Jesus just a man claiming to be God or God pretending to be a man? If the Bible was written by men, can we really trust it? In this two-part post, we’ll see the fully human, fully Divine nature of both God’s Word (post 1) and Jesus, God’s Word made flesh (post 2). So this week, lets examine the reliability of the Bible, which bears the record of the God-Man, Jesus. The Word of God is fully human a) Human agents, with their own personalities and backgrounds, wrote the Bible The Scripture was written over more than a millennium-long stretch of time by several dozen authors from various cultural backgrounds. Therefore to consider that God could speak one distinct message for His people through such different people in different times and different places is surely a miracle. Students of the Bible can tell you that the message of God’s Word, whether Genesis or Revel...
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