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Søndag, 29. maj 2011 04:24

Don´t Hide Your Light under a Bushel!

“…this thing was not done in a corner!”  (Acts 26:26)

A sarcastic reader just wrote yesterday in my local newspaper:  “I have the impression that everything in this world can only be understood from the Bible according to Jørn Nielsen´s picture of the world…”

Exactly!  I feel honored to belong to the minority that understands our world and our time “from the Bible”.  Let that encourage all of us who belong to Christ to be marked by God´s word and what it has to say to our time.  To have the Spirit filled courage to go against our age with a bold “The Bible says…” is really our calling.

I remember from the days of my boyhood when young Billy Graham appeared in the public with his “The Bible says” – “..and the Bible says”.  It was  so refreshing to God´s people in those days.

Billy Graham also encouraged the Christians to use the media for the propagation of the gospel.  “At some places they beg for it”, I remember he said.  For my own part I can say in all modesty that this is true.  One day the chief editor said to me, “When do I hear from you again?  At the moment I have nothing!”  His words surprised me, but also thrilled me more than if a good brother had given me a good Bible word!

Not everybody are called upon to write.  We´re not all alike.  God has made us different.  But to those who has been given the ability to write, the challenge is, why not go out in the open with it?  Isn´t the gospel first and foremost a public matter?  Or is it confined to the church building protected by its walls?

26.5.11 – jn   -   P.S.  When we write let us remember:  Our calling i

 
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