ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH
(The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod)
Alma, Kansas
A family united by faith in Christ gathering around God's Word and Sacraments.
To reach out in Christ-like concern and Christ-borne love to each other and to those without Christ!
In This Month's
St. John Witness
MAY WITNESS
Pastor's Message
“He said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” Mark 16:15
In the spring of 1992, fourth grade students in Portland Maine carried out an experiment of sorts. Their teacher, Pamel Triue, was teaching the children about the ocean, specifically about currents. She explained how the Gulf Stream of the
Three months later, two bottles washed up in Canada. The class heard nothing else and assumed the rest of the bottles were lost, or floundered at sea. Two years passed, Then one of the students, Geoff Hight, received a surprise letter from a girl in Pornichet, France. She found one of the bottles while walking the shorelines with her father on the beach.
God wants us to be deliberate about sharing the message of salvation; We share the Gospel because we know it helps us, and we believe it will help others. Yet there are times that all we do is send a long-distance message with a prayer. But God is the God who hears, and the God who sees, and wants us to reach all the people of the world with grace through the message of Jesus Christ. He died to take away sin. He rose to bring salvation. He lives to become our friend for all eternity. And He knows those who need Him.
So pray with someone. Hand out a word of Scripture, (we have them as inserts every Sunday.) Offer a personal testimony of God’s grace, how it has blessed you. If you do not see a response, it is not that the message is lost at sea, for the Spirit of God, like the mighty Gulf Stream, carries Christ’s message to its destination. He reaches out with the Gospel in all sorts of ways to proclaim forgiveness and the joys of heaven.
*Reuters: America Online, November 2, 1994
Rejoice for God’s grace! Pastor Grimm
