Evangelism – consistent lifestyle! not effervescence

For the past few months I had been drawing your attention to the importance of Evangelism as a lifestyle.  Proclaiming the return of Jesus is central to our identity.  There are 400 other denominations that uplift the Sabbath, thousands of Christian denominations preach baptism by emersion.  Yet, there is only one unique movement that preaches the Three Angels Message, the focal point of the Revelation of Jesus, the hope for the future, and that’s us, the Seventh-day Adventists!  My expectation is that our church family takes it seriously.  Especially as we are preparing for the Revival week with pastor Fred Nichols in October.

From time to time as attention-grabbing events take place people get excited!  Over the past couple of weeks I got emails, and Facebook posts from people who are not frequent in church, who otherwise are not involved in proclaiming the Gospel, yet are caught in the excitement of blood-moons, papal visit to USA, Adventists running for the US President, muslims flooding Europe, and more. 

The new pope is an interesting person, ground breaking in many areas,  first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, the first non-European pope in more than 1,000 years, and the first to choose Francis as his papal name after St. Francis of Assisi, champion of the poor.  BY the way, when popes chose a name they indicate their direction: John 24^th will follow the agenda of John 23^rd, Benedict 16^th followed similar path of Benedict 15^th.  The current pope has chose a new path – there were no popes named Francis before!  He has indicated that his approach is new and totally different.  His actions surprise even Catholics, as some are asking if he is a Catholic (Newsweek, Sept 18, 2015).  His call to devote Sunday as a family day alerts many to see it as a step toward fulfilling Bible Prophecy about end-days persecution of religious freedom.  This week as religious and political powers come together in USA we should pay attention, yet we should not speculate and fall into effervescence (excitement, fizz), which may soon evaporate J

We are called not to be spectators, getting excited with every unexpected movement, but to be consistent active players on the stage of the last-day events.  We ought to preach, teach and proclaim the Three Angels message of Revelation 14 daily, to our friends, colleagues, and especially our families!  The message is simple:  (1) Worship God, the Creator, by living life according to God’s Design; (2) the world around is not offering hope as it is fallen, corrupt and confused; (3) live counter-cultural life, come out of the maze and matrix of this world’s rat-race and be free of popular beliefs and customs.

Be busy till Jesus come.  Don’t sit and wait and speculate as to when, but use every moment to call loved ones to the Truth which is in Jesus.