The beautiful days of summer

We are coming at you live from the basement of the MVNU library. Kim and I came up today to visit Laura Lynn and Aaron. We suprised Aaron at work with some homemade cookies and cream ice cream.

Summer is just wonderful. I've been making good use of the WAC before it closes down for good... and I have also been making good use of my new bicycle and the bike path by my house.

1 Thessalonians 2: 3- 12

3For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. 4On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please men but God, who tests our hearts. 5You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness. 6We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else.

As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, 7but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children. 8We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. 9Surely you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you.

10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 12encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

Do you want to talk about witnessing? This is the way that Paul did it... they shared their lives with these people... and treated them gently, like a mother cares for her children. Then again it says they dealt with them as a father deals with his children, encouraging and comforting.

Where on earth have we gone wrong? Where in the bible does it say to hand out tracks and hold signs outside events condeming people? I don't see where people get that. This is the way to go. This is the way to be effective.

This is powerful stuff...
"For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power."
1 Corinthians 1:17

Lets not let the cross be emptied of its power anymore...