Since my last post I have been through the fire. I didn't intend to be in the fire, but I kind of set an intentional controlled burn and suddenly found the fire burning all around me. If I had it to do all over again I would still set the fire and I would still be willing to take the heat. To be passionate about lost souls and take a stand for them is always worth it.
I was reminded of that very thing this morning as I pulled into the parking lot of my church building. I was listening to Christian Radio's WAY-FM as they talked about a recent episode of The Biggest Loser where a contestant broke down about her childhood. The contestant began to cry telling how her mother abused her over and over while family members sat silently by, doing nothing. As she cried she made the statement, "No one would save me, no one would save me and I was worth saving." Wow!
Saving lost souls......how is that done? What part do we play? It is my conviction and I can prove it Biblicaly that our part is NOT TO TELL PEOPLE HOW SINFUL THEY ARE! Our part is to love people where they are and show them the Love of Christ.....PERIOD! When they see our love they see Christ and Him personified in us. Then and only then will they want what we have. When they receive Him.......then the HOLY SPIRIT takes care of the sin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY BACON-BURGER GOD! You mean I ain't responsible for pointing out the sins to all those lost people? I ain't gotta get em cleaned up before I bring em to you and I ain't gotta be the one to get em saved? WHOO HOO, WHOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the most freeing thing I have ever heard in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All I have to do is love people and help them in any way I can!!!!!! Meet needs? I can do that!!!! WOW! I feel like a huge burden has been lifted off my back!!!
The work of the Holy Spirit - the Ruach HaKodesh is to convict the world of sin, that is not OUR job!!! We are to love our neighbor as our self and which one of us knows but that the neighbor we are loving is that little girl crying out, "Someone save me, someone save me. I am worth saving."
