
Shortsighted or Blind
To be brutally honest, I didn’t care. I was lost. I could not see. So I had little reason to hope for a good future.
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Two things come to light as people began to write:
1. The eyewitnesses who told the story of Jesus life and ministry, his death, burial, and resurrection, were beginning to die off. Thus, the need for Luke to research and write an “account of the things that have been fulfilled… just as they were handed down…by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word” (Luke 1:1-2).
2. The popular apocalyptic notion that Jesus would return to complete the task he began was reexamined as eyewitnesses recalled what Jesus actually said. The first contribution to the New Testament was not Matthew’s gospel, however Matthew records the words Jesus spoke about the end times. Jesus said, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14).
Jesus will return when the task of preaching the good news of God’s kingdom is completed. In other words, when the “whole world” is so thoroughly impacted by the gospel of the kingdom that a “testimony” is heard in “all nations,” including every people group, “then the end will come.” Every succeeding generation has been challenged by this question: What does it look like when the gospel of the kingdom makes such an impact on the whole world that it is testified about in all nations and in every people group?
On September 9, YWAM International has our monthly call to prayer. Read “The Invitation” to learn about this month’s focus, which is on students and universities internationally.
To be brutally honest, I didn’t care. I was lost. I could not see. So I had little reason to hope for a good future.
Becca came into our room in the middle of the night. She was crying because her socks came off.
I love to go barefoot in the summertime. I love sand between my toes. But going shoeless is not just for the pleasures of the beach. Why wear shoes? To protect our feet. I find three main characters in the Bible who went barefoot. David, Moses, and Jesus.
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