"God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center—Christ on the Cross—be trivialized into mere words. The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out." (1Cor. 1:17-18, Msg)
Here are some things we can take from this passage:
1. Our coming and going, our service, and whatever else it is we do, is not about us.
2. Our coming and going, our service in whatever it is we do, is about letting the Gospel be seen and heard---it's about Jesus!
3. Some will not understand why we come and go, speak and listen, comfort and encourage, and love and serve like we do, and some will understand and be inspired.
4. In all this know that God is at work, and the Gospel is the power of God for the saved and those being saved.
Be encouraged, and be intentional on remembering "the powerful action at the center", the Gospel!
2011
