one size fits all

This link was sent to me by Kerry Whalen. It mentions a lot of stuff that we are into and they even us a lot of the same terminology. There are a lot of interesting concepts brought up that we already run with. It’s certainly worth a look and Id love to hear your thoughts.

http://www.onesizefitsall.ca/web-shorts

 

The Breadth of Gods Love

Probably the greatest missional passage in all of scripture is Acts 2.
Holy Spirit is poured out on the Day of Pentecost. Immediately the disciples are enabled to communicate ‘the wonderful works of God’ to all the nations of the world in their own languages!
If this doesn’t impact you with the breadth of Gods love for all people then check out this next bit.
Peter stands up and addresses the representatives from the nations (not the Christians) and quotes to them from a prophecy from Joel 2.
17 “And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And in those days I will pour out My Spirit upon My menservants and my maidservants, and they shall prophesy.

Notice vs. 18, the prophecy adds ‘menservants and maidservants’ as distinct from ‘all Flesh’.
The point being; if servants in vs. 18 refers to those that have committed themselves to serve Jesus, then ‘all flesh’ really does mean all flesh. Not just Christians. They will dream dreams, see visions and even prophecy. This means that  Right now God by His Spirit is working in the hearts and minds of every person on the planet to draw them to Himself. To give all the opportunity to call on the name of Jesus and be saved.

Our part is to recognise in people what Holy Spirit is already doing and saying, point it out to them and simply help them listen. Put another way, we declare to them in their own language/culture/context/experience/journey the wonderful works of God.

So go and be the church to your world