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SHARE OUR FAITH ~~
My decision to follow Christ occured when I was in college. I was a sophomore at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. One of the things that had held me back from making a commitment to Christ sooner was the old excuse that people who say they're Christians don't always act like it. I figured that when and if I became a Christian, I was going to take it seriously.
I was in Rio DeJanero, Brazil, for five years, from 1983 to 1988. The big challenge was trying to figure out what we in our church had to offer the Brazilians. Though Brazil is primarily Catholic, the real religion there is spiritism, a mystical, very emotional religion. The question we had to wrestle with was this: What do we have to offer them that spiritism does not? We came to the conclusion that we offered forgiveness of sins and victory over death, which is the heart of the Gospel. That clarified for us what our message was. My theology and my message was distilled down to those two things : forgiveness and eternal life. --
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God's Calling...FOR ME--
God wants us to be sharers of the faith, sharers of the offer of God's forgiveness and eternal life. He has given so much freely to us, we will be even more blessed when we share our faith with others, and we'll have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
Max Lucado/God's Calling --Searching for your Purpose in Life
