Evangelist Article
By JAY Wilber
06⎪JUNE 2020⎪shop.cmausa.org
AS
we have been sharing over
the past few months that
we as a ministry need to be Mission
True to who we are and what our
purpose is, we need to be reminded
that being Mission True is not only
a goal to strive for as a ministry,
but also in our own personal walk
with Christ. We have to ask ourselves
the question; what does it
look like to live a Mission True life
every day?
Romans 12:1-3 (MSG)
Place Your Life before God
“So here’s what I want you to do,
God helping you: Take your everyday,
ordinary life—your sleeping,
eating, going-to-work, and walking-around
life—and place it before
God as an offering. Embracing what
God does for you is the best thing
you can do for him. Don’t become
so well-adjusted to your culture
that you fit into it without even
thinking. Instead, fix your attention
on God. You’ll be changed from the
inside out. Readily recognize what
he wants from you, and quickly
respond to it. Unlike the culture
around you, always dragging you
down to its level of immaturity, God
brings the best out of you, develops
well-formed maturity in you.
I’m speaking to you out of deep
gratitude for all that God has given
me, and especially as I have
responsibilities in relation to you.
Living then, as every one of you
does, in pure grace, it’s important
that you not misinterpret yourselves
as people who are bringing
this goodness to God. No, God
brings it all to you. The only accurate
way to understand ourselves is
by what God is and by what he does
for us, not by what we are and what
we do for him.”
Let’s look at what Paul is saying.
We need to give our everyday life to
God as an offering. Sounds easy,
but is it? Paul is saying everything
we do, our sleeping, eating, working,
and yes, even riding our motorcycles,
need to be presented to God
as an offering. This is what Paul did
after his experience on the road to
Damascus, he devoted his everyday
life to the Gospel. We are also asked
to embrace what God has done for
us and that is the best thing we can
do for Him. This means understanding
and embracing our salvation
and sharing it with others; we call
that evangelizing. In verse 2, Paul
says don’t become so well adjusted
to the world that it becomes easy
to fit in. God does not want us to fit
in, He wants us to stand out like a
shining light. Paul goes on to say if
we do this and fix our attention on
Him, we will be changed from the
inside out. This is great news, and
that is why we are to share this
message with not only bikers but
the whole world.
Philippians 1:27 (ESV)
“Only let your manner of life be
worthy of the gospel of Christ, so
that whether I come and see you or
am absent, I may hear of you that
you are standing firm in one spirit,
with one mind striving side by side
for the faith of the gospel,”
Let your life be worthy of the
Gospel, again your everyday walking,
sleeping, and going to work life.
Be worthy of your calling, let your
life shine for Jesus.
Finally, we are to minister to the
lost. Without sharing the Good
News people will be lost. One of
Jesus’ final prayers were for His disciples
and for us.
John 17:20-21 (NLT)
“I am praying not only for these
disciples but also for all who will
ever believe in me through their
message. I pray that they will all be
one, just as you and I are one—as
you are in me, Father, and I am in
you. And may they be in us so that
the world will believe you sent me.”
Jesus was praying not only for
His disciples, but also for all who
will believe in Him because of what
they share. For over 2,000 years
people have shared the message of
the disciples. I believe Jesus was not
only praying for the disciples and
the people that will believe, but He
was also praying for us who are
now sharing so more will believe.
He is praying for those who believe
and share because of what we have
shared so more will believe. We
can’t stop sharing; if we do it will all
stop. Where would we be if the person
who shared the Good News
with you had stopped? How would
you have heard about Jesus? Jesus
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