{"id":191,"date":"2018-03-14T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/14\/2018-03-point-them-to-jesus\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:21:35","slug":"2018-03-point-them-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2018-03-point-them-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Them to Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gift-habeshaw-453482-unsplash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gift-habeshaw-453482-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1647\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><br \/>\nTaking our faith in Jesus to work or out with our friends is an intimidating thing. We are considered wimps or worse for believing in Jesus, and we get confronted with tough questions. People want to know why a \u201cloving\u201d God allows starvation in Africa or massive earthquakes in poor countries or a gunman killing six-year-old kids at school. They consider us extremist, arrogant and intolerant for believing that Christianity is the only way to God.<\/p>\n<p>While we should and can validate their questions and exhibit Jesus\u2019 sympathetic and understanding heart, we must avoid the devil\u2019s trap. Don\u2019t let those taunts and questions intimidate us and prevent us from proclaiming the truth. So how do we avoid that ambush and share our faith? Point them to Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is not a religion\u2014He\u2019s a person. That makes all the difference. He the foundation that must be addressed before any other issues are talked about. As any builder knows, the foundation is the most important thing to get right. It does no good to discuss kitchen cabinets until the foundation is squared away.<\/p>\n<p>People must decide who Jesus is. They must be given the chance to examine His life and ministry so that they can decide if He is a liar, a nut-job, or Lord of the universe. If they reject the claims of Jesus, then discussing God with them is a waste of time. If they come to accept Jesus as Lord, then the tough issues are put into context of a loving Lord who gave His life for us.<\/p>\n<p>If the hub of a wheel is true to form, the whole wheel performs correctly. When we take our faith to the yard, we must take our searching sisters and brothers to meet the risen Lord. Everything else will fall into place once they get Jesus right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking our faith in Jesus to work or out with our friends is an intimidating thing. We are considered wimps or worse for believing in Jesus, and we get confronted with tough questions. People want to know why a \u201cloving\u201d God allows starvation in Africa or massive earthquakes in poor countries or a gunman killing six-year-old kids at school. They &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2018-03-point-them-to-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[20,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}