"And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead."-Acts 10:39-41
Have we seen the glory of Jesus in our lives? Have you and I witnessed his power and love? Not everyone has had the privilege of experiencing and actually more truthfully, not everyone has recognized Jesus in their lives. So what are we standing around for? We should consider ourselves chosen witnesses to carry the name of Christ! A small nuance here at the end of the passage is key to effective witnessing. Peter notes that the witnesses that he is talking to ate and drank with Jesus after he rose from the dead. We will never experience the fullness of Christ and we'll never want to share that fullness unless we eat and drink with him on a daily basis. Only then will our lives be radically redirected towards the mission of the gospel.
Mark Driscoll puts his life's mission like this, he is simply a "nobody trying to tell everybody about Somebody"
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