Do’s & Don’ts?!

DAY 20

“What is the value of a penny… or a person?”

In this chapter, we would like to focus more on building our network; more specifically, in relationship to bringing people into God’s Kingdom. Once again, I would like to remind those of you who have not, yet, become believers (accepted Christ as Lord), to continue on through the lesson because building a network of people works the same way as winning souls for Christ (Evangelism) and we have also made it clear, throughout this Blog, that the best way for you get out of the rut you are in and become successful is to do it God’s way. With that said, let’s focus now on “Kingdom building”.

(For anyone who has just joined us and this is the first Post you have read, we strongly suggest taking the time to read this Blog from the start. Please go to the top of this page and click on INDEX and begin reading from “Our Story”).

“What is Kingdom building”, someone asks? Well, we’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not a bunch of Do’s & Don’ts. Building God’s Kingdom is not about going around telling everyone what they should and should not do and judging them for choices they make, even when those choices are contrary to the Word of God. That’s right, you read that correctly; the Truth of the matter is, God is more interested in having a relationship with His people than whether or not they are obeying His rules, or even know what the rules are.

When we, as Christians, go out to build the Kingdom of God, all too often, we tend to forget that it was the Love and Grace of God, being shown to us through another believer, that brought us into the Kingdom; we try winning others, by trying to help them clean up their act and come to church, so they can be presented to God. Does anyone else see a problem with that?

We need to realize, it’s not our job to sort and clean; that task belongs to God; after all, He made them, He knows that they are dirty and smelly (metaphorically speaking, of course) and only He knows how to clean them up to make them presentable and ready for helping to build the Kingdom.

When Jesus began His earthly ministry, the first people He recruited were fishermen. Now, these men grew up in the Jewish Faith and knew what was right, because they had been taught the Scriptures as children; but these were rough and tough, rugged men, who didn’t always do what’s right; but, Jesus told them that, from this day forward, they would become fishers of men. The interesting thing to realize here is that, as fishermen, they were well aware of the fact that, when you catch fish, you do not give any consideration to what type of fish end up in your net, you haul them all in, even if some are undesirable; those can be sorted out later. You also do not take the time to clean them; the important thing is to bring in as many as possible, as quickly as possible, and bring them immediately to the marketplace.

We may be stepping out on a limb with this next point but, bear with us because, it’s important that we see the Spirit of God in our efforts; we strongly believe, when we listen to the Holy Spirit and follow His lead, that people will turn to Jesus and be delivered from sin. It has been our policy that, whenever we share Christ with someone, we focus on helping them build a relationship with their Father in Heaven; without, necessarily, connecting them with a church, or any group, or affiliation; in fact, in many cases, we emphasize that it is not necessary for them to even go to church (Until the Holy Spirit leads them to where He wants them).

Now, we know some people may have a problem with that but, remember, this isn’t about us or our group; this is about having a REAL relationship with the One & Only Living God, who holds their eternal destiny in His hands; it’s more important for them to develop that relationship, than to become part of any group (no matter how great that group may be).

In many cases, combining church attendance, with a relationship with God, works out great; but, it has been our experience that, the majority of people on the street are reluctant to enter churches. Some because of bad experiences, or false and misleading information regarding the people that go there, or some activities associated with some churches. There are also people, out there, who are scared to death to enter a church because of the way some “so-called” Christians have treated them; or because of lies they have heard, that God does horrible things to sinners like them.

What we propose, and have reiterated throughout this Blog, is that we ignore what people look like or sound like or even smell like and ignore the things they do (or don’t do) and focus on the fact that, this person is precious in the eyes of the Lord and He has requested an audience with this individual, with the soul intention of forming a long lasting relationship with them; and, we have been given the privilege of presenting His message to them. And the rest is up to Him!

So, we are offering you a challenge. If you have followed this teaching from the beginning, you have been given all the tools necessary to go out and, not only, meet people and make friends but to teach them what you know and, hopefully, bring them into your network (circle of influence). You have, also, been shown how to lead them to Christ (evangelism). So, the challenge is to BOLDLY go do what you have been taught and don’t worry, if you blow it, you blow it. Learn from your mistakes and try again, but REMEMBER to Pray before you begin and listen to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit because He will show you where to go, who to talk to and what to say.

At the top of this page, we re-posted our theme verse, “What is the value of a penny… or a person?”, and we have told you that, in this Blog, we are comparing the concept of growing a network of people to doubling a penny every day.

So, here we are, roughly, 3 weeks from the day we started this teaching and what have we accomplished? Well, we’re not sure about you but, we have managed to inspire a number of people with the inspirational Word that God has given us to write. As we just stated, we started this Blog with the concept of what would happen if you were to double a penny every day for a month and, therefore, chose to run the total each time. We, now, have only 10 days left to reach the end of our 30 day challenge.

Now, since our goal is to help people and not to alienate anyone, we have decided to allow our program to grow up, a bit. Since pennies represent people, following this Post, all of the numbers used to represent pennies, will only represent people. We will look at it in terms of people being brought into the Kingdom of God; Please enjoy the Word that God inspires us to share with you. But, to be fair, we will, at the end, need to bring the dollar value back into our lesson, in order to finalize what we started.

Since we brought it up, the amount we are adding today is… $5,242.88, which brings our total to a whopping $10,485.75 which is known as a 5-figure income (not bad for 3 weeks work).

To put that figure in another light (to line it up with our new “grown-up” policy), we would have reached over a million people by now, following this plan; Imagine that, winning over a million souls to Christ in as little as 3 weeks. But, realistically speaking, if it took 6 months for the average conversion (as we told you has been our experience), this would only take 10 years to complete. 10 years may seem like a long time but, amazingly, 10 years can seem to just fly by, when you’re busy doing Kingdom building. Realistically, if there is anyone out there that can claim to have come even close to converting that many souls in the same amount of time, or less, we want to hear from them.

Just a reminder for those of you not yet into winning souls but just need to increase you financial situation, don’t forget what we told you; when you help others, they invariably will want to help you and long before you get to this level, you will find your circle of influence is helping you. Because you are doing it God’s way, He is there to help you and REMEMBER, we told you to give it a year of honestly and deliberately following the program and we guarantee that IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!

So until next time, enjoy the homework (challenge). God Bless and we’ll catch ya on the flip side.