Romans 15:20 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) 20 My goal was to spread the Good News where the name of Christ was not known. I didn’t want to build on a foundation which others had laid. I was walking through my neighborhood and praying and it came to me that I would feel like I was wasting Gods gift of music in me if I gave a concert and only Christians came out ... its like every song I write almost is trying to convince non believers that Im not wasting my life being in love with Jesus ... I write love songs based on treating women the way Jesus is teaching me to and loving them honestly deeply and faithfully (I was listening to some motown earlier and realized how old school my love songs are, back when I was young love songs were about falling in love getting married and happy ever after, these days they are mostly celebrating one night stands, hooking uo and hour and moving on to the next conquest ... God knows I aint been no good at forever yet but I aint giving up trying ... maybe Im just such an unhot lover it would take me a lifetime to satisfy a woman) ... I am an evangelist ... my job is to court and spark unchurched people until they want to be in the bride of Christ and join in the eternal honeymoon ... so much of those that call their selves witnesses for Jesus go from church to church to convince saved people to switch churches ... too many Christians have given up evangelism and settle for electing politicians who will pass laws forcing people to live like Christians no matter what they really believe ... lazy hypocrites ... I thank God every day I have more hedonists, satanists, agnostics and atheists on my friends list than I do Christians .... Im not here to preach to the choir except when I am actually preaching to a church full of saved people and in church Id much rather lead praise and worship than anything else I fill in the pulpit when my pastor needs a day off but he is much better at it than I am ... my favorite place to minister is the chapel at the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission here in Longview ... I have all the typical objections to religion, all the doubts that logic and reason provoke and yet the love I experience knowing and fellowshipping with the very much alive and well Jesus overpowers them gloriously and so I have no fear that people who believe differently than I do can change who I am so my love is unconditional we knew it from the start ... I remember age ago going to see B.J. Thomas at Oral Roberts place in Tulsa and how he opened with a few Christian songs then went into raindrops keep falling on my head and all these self righteous hypocrites started booing him and I said yeah, he is doing something right. Carry on my wayward sons and daughters ... salvation does not cease your being human it allows for your humanity without guilt and shame crippling you ... peace
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:11:51 +0000