How is your relationship with Jesus?
Who is in Christ’s Family?
Do you have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?
Mark 3.31-35
The most important question you will ever be asked to answer is the question – “Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?”
This week, as I stood in line buying food to feed 60 hungry servants working at the church, the man behind the counter looked at the tax-exempt paper and said, “Tulsa Bible Church? What do you think of that movie [The Passion]?” I answered (as I am learning to since the awareness of the Name of Jesus, and His death is all around us, more than ever in my lifetime) – “it makes me want to be sure that I have a personal relationship with Him.”
(By the way – in my lifetime, the name of Jesus has never been so prominent in the news, the media, in print, and on the lips of so many people. Historians say that the last time this happened was at the start of Billy Graham’s ministry sweeping the country in the late 1940s. So we must go in with the Gospel while people are open.)
I told him the movie starts with a verse declaring that Christ was dying for sins. That theme is repeated several times throughout the movie. And so I said, that movie made me examine whether I had a personal relationship with Jesus the One who died for my sins.
Then he said something that I had hoped for, “Am I supposed to have a relationship with Jesus? I am a catholic, do we do that?” And of course that led to a perfect opportunity to express to him a verbal witness of Christ’s death for sin (as the movie starts with and sticks with by the way) and an explanation of how to get that relationship started. Simply stated I shared my testimony that I have a relationship with Jesus Christ by believing that Jesus absorbed God’s wrath for my sin on the Cross, and repenting of my sin.
I left him (he was the area manager for a group of Tulsa stores who just happened to be at the counter that moment) reading intently a Gospel tract.
So as I asked him, how is YOUR relationship with Jesus?
Do you have one?
Are you sure of that relationship?
Do you understand what that relationship really means to God and to you?
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