3 Ways To Fulfill Our One Purpose
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- Published: Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:18
With a new year upon us, you may be wanting to share your faith more. That’s a good goal for 2023. But how can you fulfill your one purpose as a Christian without being too pushy, offensive, or have a counter-effect on people? Almost half of Christian Millennials (47 percent) believe that it is wrong to share one’s personal beliefs with someone of a different faith in hopes that they will one day share the same faith. Maybe we’re more worried about how it might effect someone if we tell them about Jesus than we are about how it might effect them if we don’t?
Here are 3 Ways to Fulfill Our 'One Purpose', from Denison Forum on Truth and Culture:
ONE: PRAY FOR GOD TO DO WHAT YOU CANNOT.
You and I cannot convict a single sinner of a single sin or save a single soul. This is the work of the Holy Spirit (John 16:8). Pray by name for the lost people you know, asking the Lord to draw them to himself.
TWO: LOOK FOR WAYS TO JOIN GOD IN ANSWERING YOUR PRAYER.
God’s Spirit is at work today in lives he intends you to influence tomorrow. Ask his Spirit to prompt you when he wants you to meet a need in Jesus’ name (cf. 1 Peter 4:10). Ask him to give you the words you are to say when you are to say them (Luke 12:12). Then trust that he is using your ministry whether you can see immediate results or not.
THREE: BEGIN TODAY.
C. S. Lewis, in his 1939 sermon “Learning in War-Time,” encouraged Oxford University students during the Second World War: “Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment ‘as to the Lord.’ It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.”
FULFILLING OUR "ONE PURPOSE" IN LIFE
Oswald Chambers states: “The great essential of the missionary is that he remains true to the call of God and realizes that his one purpose is to disciple men and women to Jesus” (my emphasis). But he also reminds us that we must experience for ourselves what we would share with others: “The one great challenge is—Do I know my risen Lord? Do I know the power of his indwelling Spirit?”
Have you asked God’s Spirit to empower and use your life yet today?
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