What the World Needs Now
What does the world need? Certainly food, water and shelter – but even more than that, the people of the world need Jesus, they need “the bread of life.”
What does the world need? Certainly food, water and shelter – but even more than that, the people of the world need Jesus, they need “the bread of life.”
Media can stimulate your thinking, touch your heart, inspire your imagination. Media can change your life. It can change the world. And God is the Master of media. Coming from him, it can do amazing things!
He was so passionate about you and me, so passionate about all those separated from God by their sin, that he finished the job! However, there remains an unfinished task on Jesus’ list.
Do we comprehend how much new life means to someone suffering, lost, victimized, or oppressed? To someone spiritually blind or without hope? Indeed, for many of them, new life is worth dying for!
We find a reassuring and even divine rhythm in praising Jesus “for all that is past,” and then trusting him “for all that’s to come.” Before “praying it forward,” we spent some time “praising it backward.”
Friends, let’s listen more to the Samuels among us! These young adults want us to hear their stories and thoughts and take them seriously.
All times require the same Good News, but different times call for different ways of getting that Good News out.
I want us unashamedly to listen to and be led by those among them whom God has gifted to dream and to act. Indeed, they are different, and yet they are the same. That, my friends, is good, very good.
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