Genesis 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
We were not created to win souls.
I can hear your mouse skidding across the mouse pad trying to escape this blog after such blasphemy. Just keep reading!
C #1: COMMUNE with Him
We were created to commune with Him, walk and talk with Him in the cool of the day. When man fell the communing with God stopped. After man sinned they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day. They were familiar with the sound; He had walked in the garden often so they knew the sound of God.
Genesis 2:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Because man sinned, our fellowship with God was lost; man was banished from the garden. Yet in His mercy God made a way for man to regain the fellowship and communication with Him through the death and resurrection of His son. God’s plan became flesh through His son Jesus. The initiation of His plan to reconnect called for His son to pick out twelve men just so they could fellowship together, getting to know Jesus.
C #2: COMISSIONED by Him
Mark 3:13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve--designating them apostles--that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach.
Did you catch the last part of the verse, ‘that he might send them out to preach’? Now it’s time to win souls. We were created to commune ~ we are commissioned to see souls changed.
Did you catch the last part of the verse, ‘that he might send them out to preach’? Now it’s time to win souls. We were created to commune ~ we are commissioned to see souls changed.
God’s goal for man since we were kicked out of the garden was to return to the fellowship for which we were designed. Our lives are spent striving toward the level of intimacy and communication man had while in the garden. The more we commune with God the greater our hunger and desire to answer His call of commission. Living and communing with Him in His glory leads us into fulfilling His commission.
C #3: CHANGED into His Likeness
Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
The disciples went through the C-process. First they were called to COMMUNE with Jesus; then COMMISSIONED to go preach the gospel to all nations: then they were filled with the Holy Spirit, receiving power and began to personally CHANGE while CHANGING the world.
Those that knew Jesus through their communing received a commission from Him to change the world. Out of our communing with Jesus is birthed a desire tell others of the wonderful things we have discovered about Him. The more we discover the more change is derived in our life. The more change that is derived in our life the more others can see that we have something they need. As we commune with Him and lift Him up in our lives, others will notice that what we have on the inside is different.
I want something in my life worth telling others about. I want the person I demonstrate to the world be something that they see as a good thing for their life. As I commune with Jesus and become transformed into His image I believe that it makes a response to His commission easier.
The disciples went through the C-process. First they were called to COMMUNE with Jesus; then COMMISSIONED to go preach the gospel to all nations: then they were filled with the Holy Spirit, receiving power and began to personally CHANGE while CHANGING the world.
Those that knew Jesus through their communing received a commission from Him to change the world. Out of our communing with Jesus is birthed a desire tell others of the wonderful things we have discovered about Him. The more we discover the more change is derived in our life. The more change that is derived in our life the more others can see that we have something they need. As we commune with Him and lift Him up in our lives, others will notice that what we have on the inside is different.
I want something in my life worth telling others about. I want the person I demonstrate to the world be something that they see as a good thing for their life. As I commune with Jesus and become transformed into His image I believe that it makes a response to His commission easier.
Jesus may have been speaking about the manner of His death, but I believe that John 12:32 is a key to answering the commission.
John 12:32: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Is my life lifting up Jesus? Is my life a reflection of who Jesus is? Is my personality something that others see as Jesus inspired? Is how I act everyday lifting up the love, kindness, gentleness and peace of Jesus?
Tough questions that I can’t answer with always; hopefully more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Working out the 3 C’s of my Christianity has kept me from falling into the 3 R’s of Church.
R #1~Repent: We get saved.
R #2~Righteous: We figure out how to live an upright, moral and proper life based on the rules of the church.
R#3~Relax: We sit back and wait for Jesus to come back and get us out of here.
If the disciple’s journey followed the 3 R’s my journey would have never begun.
Lord, help me grow in the 3 C’s.
Kim Angela
Is my life lifting up Jesus? Is my life a reflection of who Jesus is? Is my personality something that others see as Jesus inspired? Is how I act everyday lifting up the love, kindness, gentleness and peace of Jesus?
Tough questions that I can’t answer with always; hopefully more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Working out the 3 C’s of my Christianity has kept me from falling into the 3 R’s of Church.
R #1~Repent: We get saved.
R #2~Righteous: We figure out how to live an upright, moral and proper life based on the rules of the church.
R#3~Relax: We sit back and wait for Jesus to come back and get us out of here.
If the disciple’s journey followed the 3 R’s my journey would have never begun.
Lord, help me grow in the 3 C’s.
Kim Angela
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