We live in a world where the scoreboard is the measure of success, the lights we play under can outshine the light on us and the roaring applause from people we don’t know means more than the voices we do. Then we sit in our church on Sunday morning and refuse to get in the game. Whether it’s the obscurity of sharing Jesus with a small crowd or the intimidation of sharing Jesus with anyone, when it comes to being a disciple of Christ, we can “sit and take” instead of “go and make.”
If we call ourselves a follower of Christ, it doesn’t matter if we have the professional title of coach, teacher, mom or doctor, we are supposed to be a disciple of Christ and make disciples for Christ. We do this in three ways:
Show Christ by how we live.
Share Christ in what we say.
Serve Christ in what we do.
Peter and the other disciples had experienced the life and death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, and knew they were to go and make disciples out of the overflow of Christ living in them, and that is exactly what they did: “Many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand” (Acts 4:4). You see, that’s how their day was going but not how their day began.
Read: Acts 3:1-12 Whether our dream is coaching in front of a crowd of five thousand or sharing our faith with just one, it all starts with taking part in the prayer service first. They were ready to serve Christ by healing this man and sharing Christ with the crowd because they sought Christ in prayer and community worship at the temple. They didn’t set out to preach to the thousands but to pray to the ONE. This is how our Lord works—when we surrender to Him, He opens the doors to share our faith with others. We just have to be ready to walk through the doors.
Are you ready?