Happy Tuesday Good People!

Charles Thomas Studd, (1860-1931) is remembered both as a cricketer and missionary. As a cricketer he played for England in the famous 1882 match won by Australia which was the origins of Ashes. As a British Protestant Christian missionary to China he was part of the Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Heart of Africa Mission which became the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (now WEC International).

Studd made one of the most famous statements on evangelism to ever come our of a persons mouth: “Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a RESCUE SHOP within a yard of hell!”

Mark 2:15-17 15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people OF THIS KIND among Jesus’ followers.) 16 But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?” 17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor-SICK PEOPLE do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

I see this as part of the reason so many Christians are bored with their religion these days. Too many of us enter into relationship with God and it’s the greatest day of our history… and we go into a church, shut the doors tightly behind us… hoping to spend the rest of our lives in a bubble of HEALTHY people. Forgetting so quickly where we came from, we soon despise all the rest of the SICK PEOPLE in our world. And life for us becomes nothing more than aiming to get healthier than healthy, as we spend our days bragging over who is the healthiest of all.

Jesus taught his followers to search for SICK PEOPLE… to love them and serve them and HEAL THEM! He modeled this with his life… dissing the debaters to live among the sick! While the teachers of the law sought to argue over the legalities of Jesus actions… Jesus kept on seeking for SICK PEOPLE… healing, saving, and delivering every last one of them! 

Life is so much more fulfilling when we live sacrificially for the HEALING OF THE SICK PEOPLE. Look around, they are everywhere… and we are well able to give them LIFE. 

Romans 10:14-15 “But HOW can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And HOW can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And HOW can they hear about him unless someone tells them? 15 And HOW will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF MESSENGERS WHO BRING GOOD NEWS!”

I hope todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing life! I pray it moves you to reach a sick person THIS WEEK… and next week too! Leave your inspirational comments… and have a most outstanding day!