Life in 3G Part 3

            Welcome back to FCA. This week we’re wrapping up a series called Life in 3G, and the whole idea behind the series was to get more spiritually connected with God. Now there’s a reason that we do this. There’s a reason why God gathers us together. It’s because there are people all around us that need to know that God loves them and that he wants to have a relationship with them. There’s a reason why we grow ourselves up in the word, that we can grow ourselves in our relationship with Christ. And it’s not so that we become biblically smarter or that we feel holier than the people at work, or here at school. It’s so that the word of God can transform us and change us from the inside and so that our old selfish nature within us can be put to death. It’s so the nature of Christ can come alive in us, so that when we go into the world every day, that we see the people that we interact with, we’ll see them the way God see’s them. And then we will love them the way God loves them. See we Gather every week, we Grow every week so that we can Go into the world everyday and be the church. The church is not a building; the church is you and me. We are the church.  So we Go every week and we’re surrounded by people in our everyday lives, but the question is; do we see them? Do we really see what’s going on in their world? Do we take the time to care or are we so wrapped up in ourselves and our agenda that we miss God’s agenda for our lives? When we eat lunch, do we see the girl or boy that sits all alone and nobody goes and talks to them? Do you know what’s going on in their life; do you care? Maybe nobody’s told her about God, and she doesn’t know Jesus. Everyday there are people at our workplace (for those of us that work) and we run into coworkers and start talking with them and of course they’re there, and everything looks good in their life. They seem happy. What do I need to talk to them about? But what we don’t realize is that coworker is supporting their family. Maybe they’re a single mother, or a student helping support the family. And maybe they don’t know who to turn to for help in situations. You know maybe there are people in our lives that aren’t going through a lot of problems, instead they’ve had a lot of successes but they’re longing for significance and God-given purpose, and what if God has placed you in their lives to point them to him, to help them know that he loves them and that they have a purpose. What if God is the one that has placed you in their life to help them realize that it’s not about the religion but rather about the relationship? Let’s move on, what about that guy or gal that runs around your neighborhood? Who’s going to talk to them? Because see they just got the news that the cancer is back and they haven’t told anybody, and they don’t know what they are going to do. The situation the doctors say is hopeless, they’ve tried everything, but see what that guy or girl doesn’t know is about a man who works miracles and brings hope to the hopeless. And then there are those random encounters that we have in public with a girl at the library or the FedEx guy or some guy we see walking down the street and we have this opportunity to talk to them about God, but do we take the opportunity? Do we seize that moment? Are we going to be the ones to tell them? See Paul says that somebody has to tell them. In Romans chapter 10 verse 13 and 14, “For ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.’ But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them?” Somebody’s got to tell them. They’re not going to just figure it out on their own. Someone’s got to tell them who God is, and what he did for them. They’re not going to figure it out if you say “God bless you” when they sneeze. Sorry that doesn’t count as sharing your faith. How will they know if you don’t go? How will they know about Christ if we don’t go? This week I want to challenge us all to go. Share the good news with somebody, spend that extra time talking with that guy you pass everyday between 4^th and 5^th period. Show concern for that family next door that seems to be falling apart, or that elderly lady up the street whose husband just died. Be the light in what can seem like a dark world this week, but not just this week let’s do this for the rest of our lives.