What am I offering others?
A set of true propositions that are static and unmoved or eternal life - life to the full?
Another Christian truism comes to mind - religion or relationship?
Am I really offering relationship with Jesus to others or am I offering what I think is the only right way of understanding the Scriptures and doctrine?
There is a right way to know God - the only way - Jesus Christ. The God-man is not frozen in time, dead except to the theologians and exegetes.
In our own lives and when ministering to others, it is all about facilitating an environment for the Holy Spirit to encounter one's spirit and for Him to speak truth and life into one's very core. Salvation is a creation event in which God breathes in us and gives us life through His Son by the power of the Spirit.
"The woman said, 'I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.' Then Jesus declared, 'I who speak to you am he.' ... Then, leaving her watering jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 'Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?' ... Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, 'He told me everything I ever did.' ... Because of his [Jesus'] words many more became believers. They said to the woman, 'We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.'"
-John 4:25-26, 28-29, 39, 41-42
Truth about God cannot be received apart from the work of the Spirit. May we invite Him to do as He wills as we speak the truth in love!
Lord, help me let you speak for yourself so that others may hear for themselves and come to know that you, Jesus, really are the Savior of the world.
