I'm no preacher, but...

Yesterday night I went to a Bible study with Chrissy. This is probably the wrong way of approaching a Bible study, but my main intentions were to meet new people around my age group who are in love with Christ like myself. Finding that common ground among people is priceless, as I've come to know going to a secular school. It has become true in my life, but perhaps that is only true because I didn't work hard enough in finding them.

Anyway, that's a tangent that I don't want to elaborate on right now. The Bible study focused on the "two Trees" found in the beginning of Genesis and the end of Revelation. We watched a short dvd on some dude (Rob something, I believe) who talked about how God created the Tree of Life at the beginning of creation and will create another Tree of Life sometime in the future and how we live in between these two trees...so to speak. Personally, I found the message intriguing in its own sense, for it is a perspective I've never seen before. It wasn't enough to captivate me, though. It seemed rather stale.

The message does go more in depth than just living between these two trees. He continued to explain how we should live our lives for God. What does that entail? For some reason, that part dodged me. What really struck me is how he said that life as a Christian is more than spreading the Gospel. If our purpose in life as a Christian was that, then we'd ultimately be a bunch of people "hanging out" waiting for Christ to return.

I had a little trouble agreeing with this. I believe spreading the Gospel is a very important factor in our lives as Christians. Through missions, Christians find a strong sense of who they are as Godly people. Preaching the Word to people who never heard of God, witnessing to people on the street or in your home, and discussing Christianity with people is very much who we are. It goes farther into how our beliefs and faith in God reflect into how we live our everyday lives among those who do not share our faith, and this puts a lasting impression on people and how they see us. It could ultimately bring a person to salvation. It's not that Christians "hang out" waiting for Christ's return and trying to get others to become Christians to hang out with us, we tell people about Christ and invite them to share in the goodness of God by living life according to His Word.

Missions and witnessing goes a longer way than just telling people about God, for it brings everything in ourselves to successfully show how God dwells in His people. The very soul of who we are radiates the Spirit of God if we are His children, and that gives us a lot more credit than being a bunch of followers of Jesus chilling on Earth waiting for His second coming.