Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Delivered to our doorstep...delivered to God.

Go into all the world and make disciples. As much as we fail in carrying out this command, it is not our greatest failure to spread the gospel. We actually have the world coming to us, yet we still do not make disciples.



On thousands of college campuses across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world come to study and live. It is almost as if God is telling us that if we won’t go, he will bring them to us. It is almost as if God is showing us he wants disciples made in all the world and he will pay the cost.


God is delivering the world literally to our doorstep. Will we make disciples?

 
Not only is God bringing the world to our doorstep, he is providing the perfect setting for us to share his love. Foreign students come to a vastly different culture, are separated from friends and family, and must make their way in a new life. They have the pressure of high expectations and demanding college classes. They often have financial worries and most don’t own a car.

 
What do these young people need? Love. What will these young people respond to? Love. The question to us is, will we love them? God has sent them for us to love. He has commanded us to love them. He has placed them here so that we might share his love with them.

 
And each one represents a potential missionary to their home country when the return. Imagine the impact of tens of thousands college students every year who returned home as whole-hearted followers of Jesus Christ. It would far exceed any mission program we now have.

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