The Green Page

You must be born again

These are the words spoken to Nicodemus by Jesus in
John 3:7

if we are to witness to others we must be assured of our salvation. If you cannot truthfully say to yourself that you have accepted Jesus Chrsit as your Saviour then take a moment right now and pray to the Lord for forgivenss for your sins.

An assurance of your salvation is important becasue through witnessing you will be

Leading a person to an acceptance of Jesus Christ as

The Green page in the wordless book represents our life in Christ

But it also represents what you with the new life of the one you have witnessed too.

One of the most important parts of witnessing, one that I feel is overlooked the most, is what do you do with the person after you have witnessed to them

Do you ignore them if they do not come to know the Lord and move on to try and save another soul?

Jesus told his disciples if you go into a town and they do not welcome you and your message to shake the dust off your sandles and move on. I know some people use this as an excuse not to witness to the same person more than once. But I feel and I may be wrong that if the Lord is patient with us waiting for us to come to Him how important is it to us to love and witness to the same person over and over again. So keep on keepin on as you witness. Don't give up you are the voice of the Lord keep proclaiming until the end.

Another delemma many Christians face is what:

If they do come to know the Lord do you ignore them and move on to try and save another soul?

I think their is a third choice and one Paul used quite often

The Bible says in the book Proverbs

Train up a child in the way that he should go
That he will never depart

You might be wondering what all this verse has to do with witnessing

A new Chrsitian is sometimes referred to as a babe
in the word of God
They need direction and training i order to help them grow in their walk with the Lord. It is up us as witnesses to not only only show the way to others, but to also live in such a way as to teach others.

Think about the example of the disciples such as Peter and Paul in the Bible. They did not just blow into town, preach the Word in order to bring others to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and then leave. Many times they stuck around for a year, or more in order to insure that the new believers were firm in their faith. Then and only then did they move on.

Even after they moved on to another town they continued to write letters of instruction and encouragment to the new churches and new Christians.

I am not saying that you should take on the responibility of discipling if you do not feel qualified or led to do it.

All I am saying is that you need to insure if you have led anybody to the Lord then don't leave it at that, help them to find a church or group of Christians that can help them grow in the Lord.

One final thought on the meaning of the green page in the wordless book.

It is not only important to
talk the talk
but you also
to walk the walk
of a life
lived for Jesus

Remember our defintion of worldliness

may not match up to the Bibles defintion of worldliness

I think standardized tests are unfair because they don't test you on what you know and they try to trick you. What grades you get in regular classes are more important than how you do on some stupid test that you take on one day that you might not be feeling good.