Across the Aisle: Final Battle

When we last talked about across the aisle, we talked about the battle that poses. The final point that I want to make and got in my spirit is this, that is do people want to hear it. When you come like all fire and brimstone, they may not want to heat it. They might not want to hear about what they are doing in sin. They may not want to know that they are sinners right away. They may be put off by what Christians are about for example against same-sex marriage or anything you can think of. The more Churchie you get the more people can be put off. But a handshake and God loves you is the best place to start, nothing more than this needs to happen at this point. Once that has occurred invite them to coffee or to lunch or bowling or whatever you want your table to be (remember it doesn't actually have to be a table). 

Can you think of a time that The Bible talks about they didn't want to hear Jesus? The pharisee and the scribes and chief priest really didn't want to hear Jesus, but I can't think of a time they actually said it. To my knowledge never hear them say shut up Jesus or silent Jesus. The people who I talked about did not like Jesus and what His message was about and tried to kill Him but never told him to be quiet. 

5 So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: 6 and Jacob’s [a]well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. John 4: 5-14

Jesus came and asked for a drink of water, He could have come and been churchie but He wasn't. He came was nice and calm and wanted to give a gift to this woman who he wasn't supposed to have dealings with because she was a Samaritan. He walked across the aisle in a sense and shook her hand not literally but figuratively. This is the model we should follow.  I will finish it up tomorrow but damming someone before you know them is never a good idea and goes against everything the Bible talks about.

All Bible verses taken from the ASV.

Have a blessed day!!!!