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Christ Centered and People Sensitive

Greetings in the name of Christ!  What a joy it is for each one of us to know the

Good News of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!   Because of Christ we are blessed!  We are blessed with the forgiveness of our sin and eternal life.  But we also have the blessed assurance that God is with us each and every day.  God’s love and His presence are with us as we face this life.  At the heart of being a Christian is to be a person that is living out God’s Word and love.  We do this as we are in God’s Word through personal devotion, bible study, and worship.  A brother pastor years ago identified five statements that the church and God’s people should be about.  The first statement focused on being a church in the Word of God.   We are to encourage one another to be in the Word.  We are to make the Word of God our source and norm for life.  God’s Word is to guide us, lead us, and correct us.  Paul wrote to Timothy, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV)

God’s Word tells us what is right and wrong, but at the heart of the Bible is the message of God’s love in Christ for us.  The love of God is to be at the center of our lives.  The second of the five vision statements states that we are to be a church and people who are Christ-centered and a people-sensitive.

God calls us to be Christ-centered and people-sensitive.  Jesus once said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'  This is the first and greatest commandment.   And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.’“(Matthew 22:37-39) These words of Jesus tell us the summary of the commandments.  They tell us how we are to be Christ-centered and people-sensitive. We are called to focus our lives on Jesus Christ and to do everything we can through our life to tell the world who Jesus is and what He has done for us and for them.

It is very important to tell the Good News about Jesus, but it is essential that we tell the world what Jesus means to us.    A man by the name of Tim Hansel once wrote, “I   was almost your person today, Lord.  Then I  thought what it would have been like if Jesus had done the same thing. What if God had almost revealed himself in Jesus Christ? What if Christ were almost born and almost lived and almost died? What if he would have said, ‘Ask and it will almost be given you; seek and you will almost find; knock and it will almost be opened to you’? What if he would have said, ‘Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I  will almost give you rest’? And what if Jesus had told his disciples, ‘For whosoever would save his life will lose it, and whosoever loses his life for my sake will almost find it’?  My Almost Christianity took on a much different light. I   realized how many times I   had played the game of being one of Jesus' ‘almost disciples.’  I recalled how many times I  had prayed almost believing and walked through my days as if he were almost risen.  It was not a question of theology. It was a question of lifestyle. Whether or not I  had a lifestyle that could match what I  said I  believed, whether or not, as some have said, I  could walk my talk.  (-- Tim Hansel, When I  Relax I   Feel Guilty, p. 51.)

What does the world see when they look at your life?  Do they see the joy, the happiness, the peace that is yours from God?  When they think of you, do they know that you are a child of God in the way that you care for others?  To walk the walk and to talk the talk is to do it each and every day, knowing, believing, and trusting in God to provide for you and take care of you.  The world is watching, what will they see?  Thanks be to God that when we fall short, we can ask for forgiveness, and we ask for God’s help as we serve and witness to Him. May you profess with your life that you are Christ-centered and people-sensitive.  May God bless you through your love and service

In Christ

Pastor Jeffrey Geske

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