Canadian Evangelism

I was at an event the other night when the teaching was on Acts 3 - 4; the healing of the lame man at the temple gate. This verse stuck out to me.       When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13)     This should be true today about Christians. People should be astonished at the effect Jesus has on our lives.   Jesus also said: ...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8) What I find interesting is that where Jesus' Great Commission  (Matthew 28: 16 - 20)  is a command - "Go!", his statement from Acts, above, is merely a statement of reality: "You will be my witnesses." The question is will we be good witnesses or bad. Will we be effective or ineffective?...

"...wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.   For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie..." (2 Thessalonians 2: 10b - 11) I believe a great delusion has fallen on our culture, and it has happened so quickly that it can only be supernatural in nature. What used to be known as good is now called evil.  Mere disagreement is now called hate. "Tolerance" once correctly defined as allowing others, and respecting the rights of others, to believe differently, has come to mean absolute acceptance of all thoughts and behaviours as completely valid. The only thing now considered wrong is disagreement with those who think that all things are acceptable. And it has happened with amazing rapidity - within a few years even. At the same time, a veil seems to have fallen over people's eyes to prevent them from seeing the truth. Facebook is filled with peopl...

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