Lent, Part 2

I have been challenged by the Spirit regarding our need to be concerned about the responsibility to share the Gospel with those people that we contact on a personal basis as well as during a corporate worship setting. Am I truly concerned about those things that concern God? Am I truly concerned about the purpose/mission of Christ. I believe that the New Testament is full of examples of where Jesus explained and declared His "mission statement" for His time on earth. His mission statement should be the driving force behind the mission statement of each church that declares itself to be a follower of Jesus Christ. I do not write these words as a form of criticism but they are being written as I sense the Holy Spirit drawing us back to the purpose of Christ coming to this world. 

Lent reminds us of the need to remember the purpose of Christ and His coming to this world not as a King but as a Suffering Servant. He came to pay the price for the message that He shared with us to declare. Let this season of Lent be one in which each of us reconnect our heart with the heart of God. God truly cares about each individual person who lives on the face of this Earth. We are called to share that message with everyone and not just a select few.

I want to share a passage of scripture that was included in a recent devotional that I read. I believe this passage reveals the "mission statement" of Christ. Would you take the time to read it with an open heart so that you receive what God desires to say to you?

Luke 5:27-32, “After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.   29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”   31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (NIV) (Emphasis added)

Will you commit to pray for those who have not accepted Christ as their Savior?