Ron & Hope look forward to connecting with you!
Good Morning!
Welcome to my newest blog – Connections! It is my joy to connect people to Jesus.
What does such a goal look like? As I share from my heart and off the cuff each morning what the LORD is doing in our lives, at NHE, in Hope’s and mine, and in many of yours, it is our intention to connect you with Jesus.
The first place we find Jesus is in Holy Scripture – His love-letter to us, and the entire world. A lost and dying world has been on my heart a lot lately. But let’s narrow that down. What world? Colleagues and community –friends that Hope and I have – who someday will come to the end of their lives, only to find themselves in Hell. Actually, every time I think of neighbors, colleagues, family, friends, etc… I wonder how to connect them with Jesus.
As many Christians do, I know how to share the Grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Really, it isn’t all that difficult. The issue is getting around everyone’s mask. Having conversation of meaningful proportions; moving beyond the surface, into the depths of significant conversation. We all put masks on as we encounter the world each day; masks that serve as shields, protecting us from anyone who might barge in with something or Someone who might hurt us. And really! Encountering Jesus is going to hurt. No matter the response Jesus causes one of two reactions: repentance and faith, accompanied by a loving obedience (over time) or an immediate and sometimes lasting, angry rejection.
I have learned not to take it personally. It really isn’t about me. It is about LIFE Himself! My problem is how to get around all those masks people put on, without ending an opportunity to connect them with Jesus. Never to be seen as a dread, never to make others want to run or avoid, never to be a reflection of just me, never to be a turn off. I do not want to come across preachy or insulting; rather to really share Jesus and His LIFE, as an exciting adventure of freedom, in such ways that people would encounter Jesus through me, and would taste and see that He is good! That the hurt, broken, shattered, and even addicted would experience Jesus and discover healing and joy in His LIFE! WOW! What a wonder it would be if a plethora or even just one would encounter Jesus, taste His goodness, and be set free by His LIFE!
So the goal of my morning blog is to reach the world with Jesus’ LOVE and LIFE!!! To connect people, my community, to the One Who is all they need. Please pray with me that my words, musings, daily thoughts, stories, etc… would be Truth, reaching far and casting wide, His net to capture as many as would receive Him!
Mercy and Grace Shower You in Freedom’s Reign!
Grace, Truth, & LIFE!
