Thursday, February 01, 2007

Things Jesus Never Said

"Accept Me As Your Personal Lord and Saviour"

Some years ago, an American missionary came to England and started to do some street evangelism in one of our shopping centres. People tried to walk around him, embarrassed - and pretended they couldn’t hear what he was saying. Eventually he managed to stop an elderly woman, and then he politely asked her, “Excuse me Madam - but have you accepted Jesus into your heart as your personal Lord and Saviour”

The elderly woman looked up at him with deep loathing in her eyes, and said, “I should certainly hope not...I’m Church of England!”

I wonder if you’ve ever been accosted by someone who has asked you that question? It’s a very personal question...and almost seems designed to make one feel uncomfortable. We don’t really know what it means do we? And for those of you who are not Christians, I expect it makes you feel a bit excluded...as though there were Christians who have a little mini-Jesus inside them...something that the rest of the world doesn’t have.

It sounds a bit like - “Is Jesus your personal shopper?” Or, “is Jesus your best mate?”.

Well, what I want to do today is give you some theological weapons to use the next time some happy smiling "Jesus-freak" asks you whether Jesus is your personal Lord and Saviour - or whether you have accepted him into your heart.


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That's been the opening lines of a seminar I'm delivering tomorrow at Portsmouth College. Want to read more...then please CLICK HERE

Enjoy.

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