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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Are you in the 4%?

I heard a sermon from Greg Laurie where he said he read a study that said only 4 percent of adults can define the great commission, recite John 3:16, and accurately describe The Gospel. I guess these are things I just took for granted. I had no idea, I had assumed everyone that called themselves a Christian would know these things. These numbers were just flat out shocking to me.
Oddly enough, my reaction was to blame my self. No I am not so vain to think it is all my fault, but I am not guiltless. I am not out there making a point to tell some one each and every day. Truthfully I probably fail to verbally tell someone once a month even. I am betting I am not alone in this failure. If I was it would not be only 4%.
I feel quite ashamed of this. I think we all should if we are not out there completing the great commission. We have received the greatest gift possible. We were given 10 laws to live by, and we all failed. Yet God's through His infinite grace sent His only Son to suffer and die to pay for our sins, and He did all this knowing we would sin against him. So while we were yet sinners God gave us the way to receive eternal life in the perfectness of Heaven.
  • Romans 5:7-9 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
  • John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
  • Luke 19:10 "for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
  • 1 John 3:7-8 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

And finally Jesus' last command before He ascended to Heaven

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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