ROMANS 10 14-15

ROMANS 10:14-15

By the virtue of our baptism,

we are made the children of God,

we are commissioned to live, give and bear witness to Christ.

Our purpose in life is to serve one another;

this is our core identity as church communicators.

We have received the good news and we equally need to give it out.

but just speaking those words is not enough because our human nature may fight it.

We need the grace of God for this mission of evangelization.

The church has the greatest message and story ever told:

the message of the gospel and the story of salvation.

We have the privilege to be ambassadors of this message and story.

To be effective communicators of the gospel

we not only need to understand the gospel itself

but like Jesus,

we also need to understand people and their total needs both physical, emotional, social and spiritual.

Jesus announces the coming of God’s Kingdom and commissioned us to proclaim the Good News to all people until the end of time.

Hearing the Good News, living by it and witnessing to it, is the basic call of all Christians.

Especially us as we are communicators of the word.

And here today we are being reminded of our responsibility

taking the good news and spreading it to the farthest bound of the world.

the scripture asks: how could they believe in him without having first heard about him, and how could they hear about him if no one preaches about him?

When we respond to this responsibility of ours, we are rewarded,

Because the scripture say: blessed are the feet of those who bring good new.

Not that we will be blessed but, blessed are we, we are already blessed.

We equally should not forget that the good news addresses itself to the whole person

Both to the material and spiritual parts.

As we can see Christ’s own communication was an act of self-giving.

He ‘emptied himself, taking the form of a servant’ (Phil 2:7).

We are called to acknowledge and make known that only Jesus, the incarnate word, is the perfect teacher, the sure way that leads to the knowledge of the father and to participation in his life.

We are called to be the transmitters of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We and the church is the hope of the world of communication,

and as apostles of the media, we have the responsibility of communicating the greatest message known to mankind,

 the gospel of Jesus Christ,

the message capable of changing a person’s entire life in the world.

God has chosen us as his witnesses.

He wants us everywhere declaring the good news.

He wants us to be his example in the world.

It is a great compliment that God has enough confidence in us to use us as his witnesses.

So my dear brothers, let us ask for the lord’s grace to know him better, love him, imitate him, live him and communicate him to the world.

Lets ask for the Lord’s grace to understand that evangelism is a process, not an event