have we lost it

            At my job the owner is passionate about the stuff we sell. If you have ever came in when he is there, you will know who I am talking about. He is obsessed with it. The second you come in he’s going tell you about how good the stuff is, and by the time he’s done telling you, even if you didn’t want any when you came in, you want some now; because if it’s that great to him it must be pretty good. So you end up buying some anyway. If you come in a lot he gets to know you. There are some regular customers that will come in when he is there, and wait till he’s done doing whatever just so they can talk. The funny thing is that’s he’s like that all the time, some days he’s having a bad day, but when a customer walks in it’s like a switch turns on and he’s just as happy as can be, only the people close to him could see/are told he’s having a not so good day. He’s got a passion for the product we sell, and my words (compared to his passion) don’t even do him justice.

            It hit me a few days ago we as Christians need a passion like him. We need to want to tell everyone about our Savior. It should be such a big deal in our lives that people come in just because they heard about Him. Just like at my work people come in saying “we heard it was the best so we thought we would try it out.” People should be coming into our churches because they heard the people there were the best, but we shouldn’t limit it to inside the church. Just like a business will go out and advertise. We need to get outside our four walls known as “the church” and go tell others how great our God really is. But the most important thing is that they need to SEE how great He is. It doesn’t matter if we have the right words to tell people if we have the passion and love for Christ they’ll see it and most likely want some of their own. Christians, in general, myself included, have become boring, grumpy people that want other people to think the way they think. When we should be excited, passionate people wanting everyone to know whom we got our passion from.

One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).  John 1:40-42