I wonder how many people we casually cross paths with every day. And of those people, I wonder how many of them don’t know Jesus. And of those who don’t know Jesus, I wonder what it would take for us to create a relationship with them. And of those with whom we create a relationship, I wonder how many of them we would eventually be able to tell our story of Jesus. I would like to share just a couple of thoughts this week along these lines…

Life touches life. A person’s life is best changed through another’s life touching them in a significant way. The opportunity to touch someone’s life will come through a variety of ways: crisis, joy, need, fun, business, and vacation. Those are just several ways God brings people across our paths. The key is availability; we must be willing to enter into someone’s life story. We must be prayerfully looking for God-given opportunities to get involved in people’s lives.

Tell them the story of Jesus. The reason we look for God-given opportunities is so that we can build a relational bridge that will lead us to sharing with them how Jesus changed our life. The key to this is intentionality. We must be intentional about the direction of our relationships. Those who are in Christ will naturally want others to be in Christ. Gospel centered people created gospel partners. We’ve found the secret to a joyful life, and it is for the purpose of sharing this joyful life with others that we make friends out of strangers.

We live our lives for the purpose of interjecting our life into someone else’s for the sake of the gospel. We are not haphazardly stumbling through life. We are looking for those moments when God sovereignly places someone across our path so that we can begin a great adventure with them. And this adventure will prayerfully lead them to the cross where their life will never be the same.

Grace & Peace,