Helping Others Reach Their Full Potential For God Series

Hospitality can be one of the greatest barrier removers to the Good News about Jesus.

Get involved in the lives of others.

1. Never give up praying for the message about Jesus to be spread.

2. Imitate Christ in your relationships with unbelievers.

And

3. Get involved in the lives of others.

God put you here to help others reach their full potential for Him. Don’t sit on your hands. Don’t give up.

Never give up praying. Does someone here today need to make a re-commitment about praying for the message of Jesus to be spread?

Are you imitating Christ in your relationships with the unchurched? Are you pleasant? Do you choose your words carefully?

How are you doing about getting involved in the lives of others? Are you expecting the lost to come to you or are you obeying the Great Commission of Jesus to go to them?

It’s time for action. It’s time for commitment. Put your life in the battle for helping others reach their full potential for God.

Last week I picked up a book called "Brainteasers for CEO’s." The book was page after page of questions to stimulate business leaders to think about what they needed to be thinking about.

I flipped open the page to the question, "What’s your exit strategy?"

Business leaders are taught to have a corporate and personal exit strategy nowadays in case something goes wrong.

I realized that in all of my years of ministry I’ve never had an exit strategy. Satan tempts me to have an exit strategy. Sometimes the work of ministry gets discouraging and frustrating. Sometimes I’d like to go start a business somewhere and have less sleepless nights and less digestion problems. But a long time ago I burned the bridges behind me.

Sometimes you’d like to have an exit strategy. You’d like to give up praying, and imitating Christ and getting involved in the lives of the unchurched because frankly, most of the time they just don’t get it. They don’t realize you’re trying to save their souls and change their lives in a positive direction. (Like the bumper sticker I read yesterday: "God protect me from your followers.")

But some will get it. Most of you did.

Aren’t you glad there was someone who didn’t give up praying for you? They didn’t give up imitating Christ or getting involved in your life?

Coming to Christ in America may have its detractors but when you see people like Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan this past week under sentence of death for converting to Christianity from Islam you begin to realize our struggles for Christ in America are small in comparison. We wilt under lesser pressures than our brothers and sisters around the world are facing for their faith!

Who will commit themselves afresh and anew to helping others reach their full potential for God today?