Jesus Gave Blood For You
Warning: This is Frustrated Ryan talking. Frustrated Ryan doesn’t always agree with Regular Ryan. The views expressed in this blog should may or may not represent his standard feelings
There’s this bible study in one of the girls halls at the school where I serve. It’s filled with absolutely fantastic Christian girls 6 or seven of them who were raised in the church, know Jesus as their Lord and savior, come regularly, and discuss fancy vocabulary words. They’re smart and funny and they earnestly desire to follow God with their lives. Several of them have picked majors specifically to help them make a difference in the world.
But somewhere along the line they forgot how to apply the gospel to their own lives.
They know all about every common sermon take-away you could possibly imagine, but they don’t. actually. take. it. away….
I’ll show you what I mean
We’re going through John. Last month we were at Jesus and the Paralyzed Man. So our application was “How can you take up your mat and walk in your own life?”
::crickets::
The next week was Jesus and the Pharisees. We thought the last application might not be specific enough so this time we said “Jesus reamed the Pharisees for knowing the scripture but not really doing what it says. One very simple thing the scripture says is ‘love your neighbor’ how about tonight at dinner we all make friends with someone new as a way to increase the amount of love we share”
…Nobody did…
The next week was Jesus feeds the 5000. To we talked about what we give to Jesus and whether we have a mentality like Phillip or Andrew. our take away was “So last week we kinda made excuses like Philip. How can we find a way this week to really do what we say we’re going to do?”
Nope.
So this week we did Jesus Walks on Water and we didn’t even read the passage (these are church kids, they know it) we just left and said “Find a person you don’t know and try to make their day better”
You know what happened?
Six kids. Six awesome christian women. who have known and sought Christ with their lives for years, walked over to a dining hall and stood in a semi circle. There was a booth right by them for the Red Cross Blood Drive. They needed donors and volunteers, and the Christians looked awkwardly at one another and said:
“Where are we possibly going to find somebody that needs our help?”
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I GIVE UP!
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I fresh out of ideas. because if you call yourself a christian and you don’t give blood I just don’t know what the hell that means.
People are dieing. and you can stop it, right now today and you can help stop it.
Would you like to?
It’s going to take a pinprick to the arm. But somebody is going to die if you don’t do it.
Awwww… Is that too much of a sacrifice? Poor baby! Okay. Go back to church and sing more songs. I’m sure that’s good too.
If you don’t give blood and say are a christian I don’t know what the hell you mean by that
that you believe something?
No you don’t.
If you actually believed the God of the universe came here and died for you I don’t think there is any possibility that you would entertain he thought that it might not be worth 20 minutes of your time and a poke in the arm to donate blood to a reputable organization.
At that point you need to be evangelised.
You don’t need to be preached to, you don’t need another bible study, and you certainty don’t need another fellowship event, you need Jesus.