I want to begin by asking you if you've ever had that moment
where you've been at home and maybe it's like a quiet evening,
but then suddenly you hear like a loud boom somewhere in the
neighborhood. And I'm not fucking like a door
slam or anything like that. I'm talking like a deep, like
bone rattling. How shaking.
What on earth was that sort of boom?
Anyone had that experience before?
And instantly, you stop what you're doing.
You look around. You know, if it's me and Susan,
we're looking at each other. And like, what on earth was
that? Was that like a firework?
Was that like my neighbor Derek's trash can?
Like, what on earth just happened?
OK. And then what do you do next?
You you don't stay put. You venture outside out into the
front. And you look around, like, what
on earth was that? But you're not alone.
Who else is outside with you? All your neighbors.
And you kind of look at each other like, how did you hear
that? They're like, yeah, what was
that? You, you guys know the
experience. Anyone, anyone in the room.
OK, a few of you, 3 of you. But you guys get you get the
boys. This happens to all of us.
And then you don't go there, right?
Maybe you don't find the answer. And So what do you do?
You go online, the community Facebook groups, and no one hear
that boom on the Northwest side. I can hear, right.
Some people are like, it's nothing.
Other people are like, you know, it's an alien invasion.
There's no in between, right? It's either one or the other.
And at this point it's like a meme, this idea of like a
neighborhood boom. Take a look.
There's even this neighborhood boom posting decision charge
somebody made and it all goes it all basically goes to the very
end, which says mind your business.
Do not post about it, right? Like you don't need to post
about every boom in the neighborhood.
Why? Well, it's because most booms,
they're, they're nothing. They, they don't matter, They're
inconsequential. They don't actually change
anything. And so for a lot of us,
honestly, we don't even bother going outside.
Maybe you hear it, you shrug it off, you move on, right.
The general consensus is if you hear a boom, you just basically
say nothing. To see here, folks, head back to
bed or head back to that show you're watching, or head back to
your phone and scrolling or back to your busy work routine or
whatever. So often we're too busy to
investigate. We're too distracted to
investigate or just too preoccupied.
And so it wasn't times we're we're quick to dismiss the boom,
thinking it's nothing special, right?
We forget about it. And honestly, I think part of
this because we, we would prefer it not to be aliens, right?
We would prefer it to be a simple, anthropological,
tangible explanation. After all, we are rational,
evolved people even when our world is rocked outside of us.
And today, I want to just say this every once in a while,
every once in a while, there's a, there's a boom that you
shouldn't ignore. Every once in a while there's a
boom that's so significant and so earth shattering and life
changing that it's worth investigating. 2000 years ago
there was an undeniable boom that went off in human history
and and the reverberation in the echoes of that boom have still
been felt and seen even to this day.
And the boom was the life and the death and the alleged
resurrection of Jesus Christ. That was the boom.
Here's the thing. Every credible historian,
whether they believe in God, don't believe in God, whether
they're atheist, agnostic, whatever, every credible
historian believes a few things about Jesus Christ.
Number one, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth actually
existed, that he was a real person.
Number 2, they believe that he went around preaching about what
was called the Kingdom of God #3 they know and believe that he
was crucified under Pontius Pilate, under Rome.
And finally #4 we all know that Christianity grew after his
death. That is his apparent of
followers were claiming that he was alive.
Now these are these are not up for debate.
These are just like historic known facts.
These this is the reality in which we live.
But the claim of the early Christians and the claim of
Christians today is this, that between 3:00 and 4:00, between
the moment when he was crucified and between that moment where
Christianity started to explode, the claim is that Jesus of
Nazareth actually came back from the dead in bodily form.
Now, that was controversial at the time, right?
And by the way, it's still controversial even today.
But the fact that matter is this every single part of Jesus life
was controversial from his birth that we celebrate around
Christmas time to his death and Easter even today.
Every part of it was was ripe with controversy.
People trying to figure out who this person was.
And one of the on the ways we know about Jesus was through the
gospel writers. They sort of wrote a sort of
biography to help us understand the history and events of Jesus
Christ. So for instance, one of those
his name was John. John in his sort of biography of
gospel, he makes these claims that he says this about Jesus.
He says that Jesus was quote God's chosen 1.
He says things like that Jesus was the Messiah, Messiah,
meaning he was like the Israelites, chosen people, our
chosen person that would save them and rescue them out of out
of death and defeat and elevate them.
John calls Jesus a rabbi, which is another word for a teacher.
Rabbis at the time would go around and they would, they
would invite students to come and follow them to learn their
way and take on their teaching and then reproduce their
teaching to others and teach others the same.
So he would take on these sort of apprentices as a rabbi.
And we see early on in the Gospel of John that Jesus was
going around and he was asking these apprentices, the
disciples, to follow him. And so here in this passage in
John 143, we see what happens next.
Verse 43 says the next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee.
Finding Philip, he said to him, Follow me.
Was it the two words rabbis would say to people when they
invite them to come disciple under them, follow me.
Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethesda.
So Philip found Nathaniel and he told them.
So Philip receives the invitation, Come follow me.
Then Philip goes and finds Nathaniel and this is what he
says to him. He says we have found the one
Moses wrote about in the Law and about whom the prophets also
wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
So Philip is making a radical claim.
He's saying, Nathaniel, we we found the guy.
We found the chosen one, the one that we've been waiting for, the
one that our people have been hearing about since we were
young kids, the ones that found in the Scripture, you know, the
the Messiah, the chosen 1, the Savior, we got him.
He's here, but it's from a town called Nazareth.
And so I love Nathaniel's reply here, verse 46, Nazareth, can
anything good come from there? You see, Nazareth at the time
and this was sort of like a like a backwater town, maybe a
population of like 500 people. And largely it was like pretty
despised. This was not a good place to be
from. And So what he's saying,
Nazareth, can anything good come from there?
We don't have a great modern parallel to that.
It maybe be like saying someone great came from like Corning IA
or something, you know, I mean, has anyone ever heard of Corning
IA, by the way? OK, if you have to put your
hands down, you're going against my point, right?
Corning IA, right you, you might hear Corning and be like
Corning. I would have like grow a lot of
corn there. You know, that's kind of the
attitude when it comes to a Nazareth.
The fun fact, Johnny Carson's from from Corning, IA.
Did you guys know that? Where are my baby boomers in the
house? Make some noise for Johnny
Carson. That wasn't very much noise, but
that's OK. That's OK.
Evidently great things can come from humble beginnings.
And Jesus, it says in Scripture that he would be despised.
He wouldn't come with fanfare and he wouldn't come with
notoriety. In fact, he'd come as a servant
of all. He'd come lowly as a baby of all
things. And So what we see here with
with Nathaniel is like a very human instinctual response to
Jesus coming from Nazareth. He he meets him with just
skepticism, you know, like really, You sure about that?
I think skepticism and for honest cynicism, jadedness,
that's kind of the air we breathe today.
Would you agree? Especially as millennials, my
generation, right? Like it is it is our default
language to just be cynical and skeptical and to question
everything. And I get it.
Like that's a human reaction. So maybe for some of you here
today, like you're like at the end there, you're like Jesus
back from the dead, really. Like the Christians are the ones
who have all, all of life figured out, know the truth.
Like Christians of all people who belongs to I go to church
and take bread and juice about it may be very strange to you
and you may have that very natural reaction of skepticism.
I get it. And we're so glad you're here.
OK, and so this is the response of Philip.
He gets it. There's skepticism.
This is his response. Verse 46, Philip says this, he
says come and see. Check it out for yourself.
Come and see this Jesus. You decide for yourself that he
is the one he claims to actually be.
And what this is, is this is a call to investigate the claims
that are being made about this Jesus.
This isn't the only time that people were invited to
investigate this man who claimed to be God.
There was this moment in John chapter 4 where Jesus is at a
well, at a water well, and this woman approaches him.
This is at noon. And so she's out there by
herself. And Jesus does something really
scandalous. He strikes up a conversation
with her, something he probably shouldn't have done being in a,
you know, Jewish male talking to a Samaritan woman.
There's like all sorts of dynamics to play here.
But anyway, he takes the time for this woman.
And what he essentially for this woman, what he essentially does
is he starts to read her diary. You know, he starts to tell her
everything that she's ever done. And he starts to kind of just
like read her past and he starts to recall the things that she's
done with with men and the sad things that have have likely
been done to her by men. And he takes this moment of
compassion and interest in this woman to reveal to her in this
moment, one-on-one, that he is indeed the Messiah.
And he does a supernaturally feminology shouldn't have had.
And this woman is so convinced that she runs and she tells her
whole city, her whole town, that she has potentially found the
Messiah. And what are her words?
Very similar to what we just read, John 4/29.
She says, come see a man who told me everything I ever did.
And then she asked this question.
Could this be the Messiah? She's not even quite sure,
right? All she knows is that she had an
encounter with this man Jesus. This man, Jesus said things he
shouldn't have known and he had compassion on her.
He, he revealed himself to be the Messiah.
She's not foolish here, but all she knows is she had an
encounter. I wonder if there's some of you
in the room who have had an encounter with God before in the
past. Maybe it was a moment where you
need the protection and he, he came in and swept in
supernaturally. Maybe it was a moment where you
didn't know how you're going to make ends meet and all of a
sudden he showed up for you. Maybe it was a moment in a
church like this or maybe at a youth camp.
Maybe it was just a time of of like severe distress and
desperation is so you just kind of threw up a Hail Mary prayer
and say, God, I don't know if you're real, but I need you now.
And maybe for some of you, you've had an experience with
Jesus, but maybe you haven't even realized that was who you
had an encounter with. Maybe he didn't realize he was
the Messiah. Maybe the invitation for you is
to explore a little bit further. This woman said, come and see.
Could it be? Is it possible her encounter
with Jesus leads to an invitation to investigate?
Come check it out. One more story where someone's
invited to come and see. This takes place on Resurrection
Sunday, the very first Easter. And So what we see is that
there's a group of women who had been following Jesus and that
this, by the way, was also controversial.
Nobody dignified and gave value to women like Jesus, especially
during this time and age where women were not valued.
It's a very patriarchal as a society in 1st century Judaism.
And yet Jesus like constantly was the cycling women, taking
time for them on and on. And there was this group of
faithful women who watched him be crucified, watch the horrors
that took place, and they were absolutely defeated, His
disciples. And their minds have lost, like,
because they put their faith that Jesus was actually going to
be the savior. But saviors don't usually end up
crucified, hanging from a cross. Saviors are usually mighty,
They're powerful, they reign, they rule, and they kick the bad
guys out. And so the disciples of the men
are hiding in fear, and yet the women are approaching the tomb.
And so here's what happens next. Here's what happens next.
Matthew 28 after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the
week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the
tomb. There was a violent earthquake
for an Angel of the Lord came down from heaven and going to
the tomb, rollback the stone and sat on it.
I love that picture, by the way, of like an Angel just like
sitting on top of the rolled away stone, right?
It's like God's original flex. I think it's pretty cool #3
Verse 3. His appearance was like
lightning and his clothes were white as snow.
The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like
dead men. So a little bit of context.
When someone passed away during this time, they would carve
rocks or carve tombs into the side of like rock faces.
So they'd be little caverns where they could walk in.
They could lay the body on a bench.
And then what they'd often do is they would roll or push a very
large stone over the covering of the tomb.
And then they would seal it maybe with clay or rocks in
order that animals obviously wouldn't get in and, and
desecrate the body. But in this case with Jesus, we
read from the Gospel accounts that Rome took an extra step.
They they not only sealed it with a Roman seal, but then they
also stationed guards to protect it.
And the story of the resurrection says that an Angel
appeared. The the soldiers kind of get
knocked out and then the Angel speaks to the women in verse 5.
The Angel said to the women, do not be afraid for I know that
you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.
He's not here. He has risen just as he said one
more time, these words come and see the place where he lay that
invitation three times overcome ANC.
And so the women, they do, they look, they see that the tomb in
fact was empty. This stone was somehow
miraculously rolled away where Jesus should have been.
He is no longer. So what do they do?
They start spreading the news like wildfire that he is alive.
There's a flurry of investigation that happened to
this point. The disciples are riddled with
doubts. They even say it's nonsense.
They're like, they don't get it right.
Dead people don't come back, back from the dead.
But the women are persistent. They say no, no, no, just look,
right. If I were to try and convince
you guys that there was an elephant right outside of those
windows, right? And I was like, guys, really?
I'm serious. There's an elephant right
outside those windows. And you guys were like, no, we
don't believe it now, probably not by now.
And I'm like, no, really, there is an elephant right out there.
What would I tell you to do next?
I would say no, look outside and see the elephant people.
It's right there that we don't actually have an elephant thing.
Ankeny would not allow that. But you get the point, right?
The very next thing I would do, as I would say, come and
investigate for yourself. You don't have to just take my
word for it. You just have to turn and look.
And that is what the women are doing here.
They're saying, and the Angel is encouraging.
Come and see that the tomb is in fact, empty.
Just look. Just look.
A Yale historian, his name was a Jarasloff Pelican.
He wrote it this way, he said. Regardless of what Eddie Owen
may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has
been the dominant figure in the history of the Western culture
for almost 20 centuries. If it were possible, with some
sort of super magnet to pull out of the history every scrap of
metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be
left? This is the mark that Jesus has
had on history. In other words, there was this
massive earth shattering boom 2000 years ago and everyone's
been trying to explain it ever since.
And really what it comes down to is there's there's two competing
narratives when it comes to this Jesus and what actually happened
after he was crucified under Rome 2 competing narratives.
The first narrative is this that Jesus was normal.
They, you know, skeptics might
agree, yes, he was real. Yes, he was crucified.
Yes, he died, but the only reason that Christianity started
to spread was because of mass hallucination or the disciples
were trying to come up with some sort of conspiracy.
They wanted to believe he was alive.
Or maybe he's a myth or some legend began to form over a
period of time that sometimes happens in history, right?
And so narrative #1 basically says, hey, no need to go on
Facebook and post about it. Nothing to see here.
Go back to bed, folks, we're good.
But then there's a second narrative, and the second
narrative is not that Jesus was normal.
The second narrative that competes with is this Jesus was
supernatural. Jesus was supernatural.
We would say, how could it be a hallucination?
It's not common for mass hallucination to take place at
the same time. From a psychological perspective
it likely wasn't a conspiracy because yes people have died for
things they believed it was true.
But why would all of Jesus disciples willingly go to their
death without recanting their faith if they hadn't actually
seen him raised from the dead? It doesn't make any sense.
All of the 11 historically were willing to say you know what,
you can just kill me because I know what I saw.
What do you do with that? It likely wasn't a conspiracy
because why would the gospel writers have women be the
primary witnesses of the resurrection at a time when
women had no legal right to be testimonies or or to testify?
Doesn't make any sense. Why would they have the
disciples be the ones who are cowardly in the story and hiding
behind locked doors? If it was just a myth, how is it
possible that even months to a few years after there a creed
began to form that solidified the very simple facts that says
that Jesus Christ died for our sins according to scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day
according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas into
the 12? In other words, myths don't form
that quickly. How is it that Roman crucifixion
was foretold hundreds of years before it was even invented by
the psalmist? And how do we explain what what
Jesus himself said in Matthew 17?
And he said, the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the
hands of men, They will kill him, and on the third day he
will be raised to life. This is what Jesus himself said
would take place. And then we believe it came
true. So the question for us is that
with these two competing narratives, what if?
What if #2 is true? What if it's all true?
What if Jesus was in fact supernatural and raised from the
dead? Just this last month in March,
there was another boom in history.
This boom took place in Ohio. You probably heard the story.
Basically, windows rattled from the boom and explosion.
It sounded like an explosion took place and what people
realized in Ohio was that a 7 ton asteroid had ripped in from
outer space into our reality and it made impact, scattering all
over. In other words, the boom was
caused from something not from this world coming into our world
and making an impact. Now, if you were in Ohio at this
time where this meteorite came and crashed landed in your
state, it would be pretty silly to ignore that it ever happened,
would you agree? Like it'd be pretty silly to be
like, I had nothing to see here, just ignore it.
Like everything's fine. Probably nothing happened,
right? That would be ridiculous.
And I would argue this and as lovingly and gracefully as I
can. And I realized there's lots of
different people from all sorts of different perspectives in the
room. But I would argue this like it
would be really silly to just ignore the facts about Jesus
life and the facts that are presented before us.
It'd be really, really silly to ignore that there was something
that took place. And I'm not saying that all of
the reasons I gave makes it absolutely foolproof, absolutely
provable. My only point is this.
It's plausible. It's very, very plausible and
it's worth investigating. New Testament expert NT right,
puts it this way. The proposal that Jesus was
bodily raised from the dead possesses unrivaled power to
explain the historical data at the heart of early Christianity.
In other words, she's saying there is a there is a puzzle and
we have a lot of the different pieces about what happened 2000
years ago. We can see a lot of the picture.
What he's saying is that the missing piece, the missing piece
that fits perfectly to explain it all, is that Jesus actually
rose from the dead. This is an expert in the New
Testament saying this two different narratives competing
in narrative #2 changes everything.
If narrative #2 is true that Jesus is indeed supernatural, it
has radical implications for how you and I should live.
This means that everything that he says is actually trustworthy.
It's trustworthy. So what did Jesus say?
Well, he said a lot and some of it was pretty radical, pretty
out there. Jesus said something like this
in John 14-6. Jesus answered, he said, check
this out. Jesus said, I am the way, I am
the truth, and I am the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. Now that is a radical and bold
claim for an individual to make. Would you agree?
No one gets to God except for me.
No one gets to eternal life after you die except through me.
But this is the claim that Jesus made.
He claimed to be the only way to God.
Pastor John Tyson points out that this differentiates him
from all of the other ways and things that are pointing to all
sorts of different options out there.
Socrates pointed to reason as the way, Buddha pointed to a
path, Moses pointed to Allah, Muhammad pointed to Allah,
Joseph Smith pointed to a new church.
Secular humanism points to itself, and hedonism points to
pleasure as the way. But Jesus comes in and Jesus
says it's me, it's me, it's always been me, it's always been
about me. It's not a system, it's not a
path, it's not a teaching, it's not an idea, it's not an
institution, It's me. He claims that the truth and
salvation is found in him. It's found in a person.
It's not on a person you can know.
And so that's why he's called the Son of man.
He calls, he's called the Messiah, he's called the Christ,
He's called the Son of God, the Lord, the I am.
And Jesus says I am the bread, the light, the door, the
shepherd, the resurrection, and the vine.
Jesus says it's me, come and see the church.
Our world is full of people trying to convince you that they
know the way. Politicians trying to tell you
convince you that they know the way.
Influencers on social media, I know the way.
Follow me. The algorithm is trying to sway
you one way or the other. Marketers trying to get your
money are trying to sway you. Everyone is convinced and
everyone's trying to persuade you that they have the way.
And Jesus, I believe, is the only one who proved that he is
the way. And he says that he has the keys
to life, that he, he can unlock the Kingdom for you, you know,
lock the way they got. And so when Jesus came, he was
spreading the good news of what's called the Kingdom.
It's the idea that that God's rule and reign could be here on
earth now, that it's not just about heaven when you die, but
it's about what he's doing here on earth as well.
So that's why we say as a church that we want to see Ankeny as it
is in heaven. Our prayer is that we would see
the earth around us look more and more like heaven.
Right Again says Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of
God's new project, not to snatch people away from earth to
heaven, but to colonize earth with the life of heaven.
And so the good news is this. The good news is this, that you
and I can participate in the Kingdom with Jesus.
How do we do that? Scripture says we do that by
repenting of our sins, by saying, you know what?
The the way I've been living all the wrong that I've done.
I, I am, I am giving up on that. I am sorry for that.
And it's it's instead turning away from our sins, making the
change of mind that leads to a change of direction.
Instead putting your faith in what Jesus did on the cross for
you and for me. The gospel writers are clear
that the reason that Jesus died was because our sin had a debt
and Jesus was the one who was willing to pay that debt.
And because God is perfectly holy, and because he's perfectly
good, there was distance between that holy God and a sinful
people, that each of us has gone our own way.
All of us have fallen short of the glory of God.
And the good news of Easter is that because Jesus was willing
to go to the cross, if we actually put our trust in that,
we put our faith and bet our lives on till we choose to
follow him. The good news is that that gap
between God and us is closed, that God reconciles us back to
himself. That is the good news.
When we repent and turn and and put our faith and trust in God
and we choose to follow Jesus, we now have access to the
Kingdom and everything that God is doing here, both now and for
eternity. After we die, we become children
of God, we become people of love, our sins are forgiven and
we move from death to life. This is the claim of the gospel.
This is the good news. And so once again, Ohio, there
was a man named Jeff Makos. When the meteorite ripped
through the sky and it broke the sound barrier, Jeff says.
I heard it and I felt it. And he tells the story about how
he had a dream, and in the dream he saw where he could find the
meteorite pieces. So what does he do?
He went out and investigated. He went to the exact spot that
he had the dream about. He looked down and there he saw
a crater and found a massive baseball sized piece of
meteorite, exactly what he'd been looking for.
And the question I want to ask about Jeff is what if he had
ignored the boom? What if he'd ignored the dream?
What if he'd stayed asleep and didn't decide to investigate?
And it reminds me of a story found in Matthew 13, which says
the Kingdom of Heaven is like a like a treasure hidden in the
field. And when a man found it, he hid
it again and then hit and his joy, he went and sold all he had
and bought that field. In other words, when you find
something of great worth, it's worth giving up everything you
have in order to claim that thing.
Some events or rooms are worth investigating, no matter how
hard out there they may seem. So I'm going to invite the band
to come forward as we kind of wrap up here.
Jeremiah 2913 says you will seek me and find me when you seek me
with all your heart. The great boom of 2000 years ago
is still reverberating for us today.
In fact, it's growing louder and louder and louder.
And maybe for some of you, you're here today and you're
skeptical and you're saying, can anything good come from
Nazareth? And maybe the invitation for you
today is to move from sleeping to seeking.
The invitation for you is the come and see, maybe first
curious in the room. And maybe you've had an
encounter with God before, but if you're honest, you're not
really living for him. And for you, the invitation is
to move from seeking to believing, to really put your
trust in this Jesus and stop doubting and just believe as
Jesus says. And finally, there's somebody
who has been to church a long time.
Maybe you do believe. You believe you have seen the
risen Christ both real in your life and in the world.
But your invitation today is to move from believing to following
wherever you're at, wherever you're at.
Make a move towards Jesus. Make a move towards Jesus.
The invitation of Jesus was this Come to me all who are weary and
burdened and I will give you rest.
If you need physical rest, go on vacation.
If you need mental rest you can go meditate.
If you need social relational rest, take a weekend by yourself
and binge. You know love is blind or
whatever right? Like those options are out there
for you, but if you're here today and you need rest for your
soul, Jesus says come to me. If you're here today and you
feel like you lack purpose and you're not quite sure what to
do, maybe you're caught in shame and you keep replaying the
things you've done over and over in your mind, or you're just
feeling dark or you're down or whatever it may be.
If you're feeling weighty today and you feel like you need to
rest for your souls, the invitation of Jesus is come to
me. Come to me.
I am the way of truth and life. So if you're not sure what to do
next in life, whether you're not sure what to do financially or
relationally, or maybe your mental health is struggling, or
you're not sure what to do with your future, I, I genuinely
believe this ceramic church. I genuinely believe the next
right step is always moving closer to Jesus.
The closer you can align yourself with the God who
created you and loves you so much, the closer you can get
inside of His will and His plans and His purposes for your life,
the more life seems to just have a way of working itself out.
I'm not saying life is going to become automatically easier.
I don't think that's the case. What I'm saying is that you'll
find that you are aligning yourself with the God of heaven
rather than pushing against him. That's a beautiful place to be.
So Jesus invitation is to come to me.
He is the next right move. He is the next right step.
Come and follow me was the invitation of Jesus to Philip
and it's it's a Nathaniel and it's to you as welcome and
follow me. As a church, we are committed to
witnessing a spirit LED disciple making movement in our churches
and communities. In other words, we're all about
becoming like Jesus together. And so we are inviting you to
come on that journey with us. We don't have it figured out all
the way. We're learning together.
We're having a blast doing it in love and in grace and in mercy.
But we want to see disciples of Jesus become more and more
presence in our communities. We're going to see more and more
people come to Jesus as we close the resurrection.
Accounts are full of movement from disbelief to belief, full
of movement from doubt to decisions, movement from
questioning to clarity. Come and see was the invitation
then, and it still is today. So wherever you're at, make them
move towards Jesus. Move from sleeping to seeking,
Move from seeking to believing, Move from believing to
following. Wherever you're at, this is
God's plan for you from the beginning, that you would be
brought back into relationship with Him, that you would join
the loving family of God, and that you would live for His
Kingdom both in this life and then them into the next.
The invitation of Jesus has come to me.
Follow me.