Modern Messiah

[apothanein kerdos]

Modern Day Messiah

Amongst the busy traffic lights, with horns from the cars pounding and the night life of the city beginning to go into full swing, a young child wonders where his next meal will come from. Two blocks down in a hospital ward a twenty year old homosexual male is grasping onto life as he dies from AIDS. Walk down the street, take a left and walk another few blocks, and there is a woman on the sidewalk, selling her body to whoever wants to take of it. She wonders what has become of her.

Where would we find Jesus if He lived in the modern age? The world is much bigger than it was when He was here, so the hypothetical can be kept to America. Some would argue that Jesus would visit Washington D.C. frequently to press Christian rights there. Others would advocate that He would be in churches, stirring a revival among His elect. Still others swear He would be visiting hospital wards, healing all those with infirmaries. So where would we find Jesus? What would Jesus do if He lived in our time and age?

We would find Him among our unwanted. In the streets where the homeless lay their heads, Jesus of Nazareth would be found. On the corners where prostitutes attempt to further corruption, Jesus Christ would be found. In gay pride rallies, the ones Christians so desperately want to end and protest, we would see Immanuel reaching out, attempting to rescue the enslaved from their sins. We would see Him talking to lawyers about the kingdom of heaven, visiting orphans and playing with them, and condemning some of the nation

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

JESUS is doing these things today through HIS body of believers.We are HIS arms extented for the world.

[fenwar]

Good stuff. It's a big challenge isn't it!

[Guest Independentflyer21]

You know, I too have often thought about how Jesus would react to our times of today. We actually had a whole sermon series on it at church, and it was really quite interesting...I think you can still listen to them on www.christianboard.com

Anyway, but I have thought about it. It really is quite sad how things have come to be today. It truly shows that we need to have more light in the world because so many people are in the dark....but when that oppurtunity comes to share your faith, you get scared and get stuck on words..reminds me of the song...

ANd here I go again

Talkin bout the rain

and mullin over things

that won't live past today

As I dance around the truth

Time is not his friend

and this might be my last chance

to tell him that you love him....

So here I go again.

By casting crowns.

I pray that I can be stronger in taking oppurtunities or even creating some of my own.

flyer21

[Catsmeow]

JESUS is doing these things today through HIS body of believers.We are HIS arms extented for the world.

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I agree.

Many sick and disabled believers intercede in the silence of their own prayer closets for those in need.

Missionaries are preaching the Good News to peoples, tribes and tongues around the world.

Countless believers are taking food to the sick and the elderly, while others visit the lonely; still others are being good sons and daughters, caring for their aging parents...

No one knows who they are or what they do because they don't the let right hand know what the left hand is doing.

The Body of Christ is alive and well but they call NO attention to themselves...They are busy, nonetheless.

[yomotalking]

Has anyone read....."In His Steps" by Charles Sheldon?

The bestseller next to the Bible.

It is about a whole village that became

[yomotalking]

Has anyone read....."In His Steps" by Charles Sheldon?

The bestseller next to the Bible.

It is about a whole village that became totally concerned with the saying "What Would Jesus do?"

The village was transformed, and so was the other village that joined in as well!

It's a great book!!

Read it!!

Ya must!!!

Yomo

[Catsmeow]

That's the Body of Christ....everyone has his/her own part in that Body...oftentimes, so few will ever even know the good deeds that are done in His Name....

The obedient believer will not call attention to himself but serve in silence, compelled to serve for the glory of Christ and not for self.

[yomotalking]

This is queer.

That's the 3rd time I've sent it TWICE!!!

Oh well!

Yomo

[yomotalking]

It is hard, because it is another century......and it really is difficult.

Jesus came to fufill His Father's Will.

That what He came FOR.........

We, on the other hand are RESIDENTS of this Earth for some time.......so it's VERY hard for me...........

Yomo