Tuesday, November 14, 2006

How the....?

How did Jesus do it?

How did Jesus remain absolutely morally perfect but yet reach all facets of society? Maybe the answer is just that He is God...but think about it...

...It seems that in our times, in order to reach a certain group of people, you have to be or at least act like that group of people. You want to bring the Gospel to a bunch of punk, street kids? Then you have to become a punk, street kid. I mean think about it, how effective would your typical white-colar, middle-class Christian guy be at a ministry like that?

It seems that the people who are the most effective and evangelizing are the people who struggle the most. I mean, the people who bring others to Christ are the ones who have fought through the most raunchy of lives, experienced the most painful of things, and who have made the worst choices. By their stories of finding new life in Christ, others are inspired to seek after God.

In our post-modern, nihilistic world, you're often labeled "fake" if you are not going through some extrutiating trial or if you're generally joyful in life. No one likes a "faker"...no, this culture wants "honesty"...don't give them none of that suburban happy-life stuff--they like it raw.

Thus...many of us who have not undergone that dramatic 180 conversion in life often have a hard time relating to secularized culture.

Again I ask, how did Jesus do it? Nowadays it seems like you have to be going through some serious sin struggle to reach people. Jesus was morally perfect....He reached thousands in His time on Earth--hundreds of millions in His time in heaven.

What was it about Jesus that drew people? Was it simply because He was God...or was there something in His actions and words that drew people?

Jesus dwelt among the sinners....yet He Himself did not sin. He rebuked sin, but not once did anyone call Him "judgmental" or label Him as "up-tight" and "conservative."

How did He do it?.....I really don't know.

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