The world for God

HOW big is your world? It’s a subjective question, of course, and perspective is critical in answering it. In this week’s issue we explore the opportunities for us to share the gospel in the light of Pentecost. Filled with the Holy Spirit, those early Christians took every opportunity to share the good news with anyone who would listen. Through the Spirit’s power there were no boundaries or assumptions about who to tell or concern as to whether they might listen. That was a matter for the Holy Spirit to deal with. They simply had to tell of what they knew.

There are literally billions of people who do not know Jesus and have no understanding of his desire to be in a loving relationship with them. In the context of Jesus’ mandate to ‘go and make disciples of all nations’ (Matthew 28:19), this might seem somewhat overwhelming, but it starts with you and me and our willingness to live our lives in such a way as to offer others a Jesus perspective. A perspective of belonging. A perspective that gives God the opportunity to speak in and through us, and in which we can each say ‘thy Kingdom come’.

MAJOR JULIAN WATCHORN

EDITOR