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Make a Stand & Share The Message of Christ!

September 6, 2010

Since our last catalog, I have personally taken hundreds of calls from customers who have tearfully recounted how God used the message of a print to minister to them. Those calls are humbling because we are merely the vessel and I am so honored at what He chooses to do with us and pour through us.

I do, however, have a concern. I’m concerned that many of our churches, Christian bookstores and average Christians are shying away from pure presentations of the Gospel. I’m continually given several rationales that go like this: “I don’t want to offend my neighbors when they come over” or “People will think I am narrow minded”. The saddest statement of all came from a bookstore owner that did not want to carry a print of Christ because “people who put that up on their wall actually have to believe this stuff”. Absolutely. Yes! That’s the point. We really do believe “this stuff” – the Message that God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to live and die for me making the way for me to be forgiven of my sins, reconciled to God and guaranteed of eternal life with Him. I personally believe it with all my heart, soul and being. And why? BECAUSE IT’S TRUE. True for me and equally true for you.

It is not the “Legend of Jesus” that we believe. It is not the “Story of the Cross” that we remember at Easter. It is Truth. It is the life, death & Resurrection of the very Son of God – the ONLY Savior and Lord. He is inescapable. Many may choose to mock Him or ignore Him but the Bible promises a day when every knee will bow and every tongue confess “Jesus is Lord”. Let no one deceive you, the Message of Christ is not a fable or a hope… it is the Truth. And we all need to start acting like it.

My encouragement then is to make a stand. Make a stand in your lives, in your purchases, in your family and in your home. Surround yourself with the Message of Christ and be not ashamed to present that Message to friends, neighbors, co-workers, repair men, delivery drivers and even the various wacky cults that come knocking on the door. Let your home, office, work, and school proclaim loudly from the walls the Message of Christ and that you are not ashamed of the Gospel.

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