A Broader Perspective
Theme of the week: The Truth About the Good News
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Key Bible Verse: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes. (Romans 1:16, NIV) Dig Deeper: 2 Corinthians 4:1-15
Today we face an articulate and assertive army of anti-theists who are entrenched in our academic institutions and trumpet their worldview even through entertainment. They declare that if we could just leave religion behind and build instead on the innate genius and goodness of humanity, we would have a better world.
That "noble experiment," however, has already been tried. It was conducted with great intentionality in Russia, China, and Korea during the 20th century. It led to the starvation, slaughter, and suppression of countless lives. Yet, by the tens of millions today, people in those same parts of the world are now flocking into house churches, refurbished cathedrals, and storefront worship centers, passionately seeking the generative seed of the Christian gospel.
It is essential to remember all this as we begin to think afresh about our witness today. Without this larger perspective, it is very easy for those of us who live in places where the gospel message is not apparently prospering to think that the human heart is just too hard and the heat of opposition just too blazing for the work of Christian witness to succeed in our times.
—Daniel Meyer in Witness Essentials
My Response: I will think of one person I consider closed to the gospel and pray that God would prepare an opportunity for me to share Christ with that person.
Thought to Apply: Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.—George Whitfield (British preacher of the Great Awakening)
Adapted from Witness Essentials (IVP, 2012) by permission. All rights reserved by the copyright holder and/or the publisher. May not be reproduced.
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Lord, help me to see the truth as you see it, so that I can have courage to share my faith.
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