One Man Makes a Difference

... or a woman, as the case may be. I had the great privilege to hear Kelly Green today. You can check him out at www.kellygreen.org , and i suggest that you do.
So here's the gist, Kelly Green travels the globe meeting people where they are, providing for their physical needs (medical care, dental care, fresh clean drinking water) and shares the gospel of Christ with them. He shows them how to be followers of Christ and the love of Christ and how to be saved. He goes to places like Uganda and Brazil and Germany and Botswana ... he is like the John Wayne of evangelism, he looks like an old, retired Irish bare knuckled boxer and talks in language that can be understood ... basically he talks like people you know ... with one exception. No one you know is in such awe of the awesomeness of Jesus and our God, when he talks about the Bible there is real passion and amazement in his voice. He really gets excited, and it delights me.
So here's this globe trotting messenger and today he talked about witnessing to people where you are. Telling them about Jesus and living your life in a way that they wonder about you, what is so different about you, why you love strangers and the jailed and widows and orphans, the fatherless ... and they will wonder enough to ask you and then you can tell them ... Jesus is the reason for the hope that you have, the living resurrected Christ. So the question i have to ask myself is, do i live my life in a way that people will ask that? Are my actions extraordinary enough? Do people see Jesus in the things i say and do? ... and the answer is a disappointing "sometimes". It's time to get it right, like it says in II Corinthians 5:15 "And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and rose again." The one true God became man, allowed Himself to be tortured and killed and then rose again, for ME! The least i can do is live this short life for Him! Thank you Kelly for coming and talking today.