On Friday night we were fortunate to have Pastor Daniel Przybylko with us for the Sabbath. Daniel is known to the older members of our church being brought up in the Polish church in Adelaide. And this is where Daniel began, by getting to know the youth who had gathered to hear him.
Pr Daniel then led us through a study of the parable found in Mark 4 of the sowing and reaping. Which is a key parable, for Jesus said of this parable that if we don’t understand it, how can we understand any other? Mark 4:13
Being a study of evangelism two key thought stood out, for me.
“Go, tell it to the world” the title of Pr Daniel’s study, a phrase coined by William Miller one of the founders of what was to become the Seventh day Adventist movement, is a call to action, a call to follow Christ’s instruction to spread the Gospel.
And the second is a call to being a true people of the Word. Ghandi said “You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilization to pieces, turn the world upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of good literature.”
If this is the potential power seen in the Bible, by non-Christians, imagine the real potential with the power of Jesus in true believers.
If we as Seventh day Adventists are to call ourselves the people of the book, the people of the Bible, the Word of God, we must know it, live it and share it.
Jonathan Ostrowski
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