Tim has a missionary heart for his hometown to love those close to him yet far from God. He is husband to Dusti and father to Nolan, Aiden, and Adelyn - fellow pilgrims to our celestial city.
Amen to what Mark Driscoll says here. And we must tell them even if they don’t believe.
I was on the street distributing Bibles in Arabic to Muslims when I was approached by a Jewish man who asked what I was doing. He was a little skeptical if what we were doing was helpful for anything, but largely appreciated that we were trying to do something.
Then he asked me about himself. He asked if I thought he would go to hell if he didn’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah. My answer was a quick and certain yes. He then became very irate and cursed me. It’s interesting to me that he would condemn me for telling him what he thought I merely believed to be the truth about his present condemned status. I’m not offended by his curse because I know he doesn’t have the weight of truth behind it. But I’d tell him the same thing again because I don’t merely believe it to be true, but the Holy Spirit testifies to me and I know the gospel of Jesus to be true.
But we should be willing to speak thus, and consistently, in the face of all manner of rejection for it lends a sense of credibility to the message. “He says the same thing even though his life is in peril. There might be something to the gospel after all.”
great clip. Thank God for Mark’s clarity.
Amen to what Mark Driscoll says here. And we must tell them even if they don’t believe.
I was on the street distributing Bibles in Arabic to Muslims when I was approached by a Jewish man who asked what I was doing. He was a little skeptical if what we were doing was helpful for anything, but largely appreciated that we were trying to do something.
Then he asked me about himself. He asked if I thought he would go to hell if he didn’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah. My answer was a quick and certain yes. He then became very irate and cursed me. It’s interesting to me that he would condemn me for telling him what he thought I merely believed to be the truth about his present condemned status. I’m not offended by his curse because I know he doesn’t have the weight of truth behind it. But I’d tell him the same thing again because I don’t merely believe it to be true, but the Holy Spirit testifies to me and I know the gospel of Jesus to be true.
But we should be willing to speak thus, and consistently, in the face of all manner of rejection for it lends a sense of credibility to the message. “He says the same thing even though his life is in peril. There might be something to the gospel after all.”