The Adventure of Your Life - Carrying Out the Call

We're living in a world when increasingly a number of people do not know him or his goodness or his mercy, and if they do not know him, they could care less about this or what's about to happen here. They don't live by his word. They don't follow his teaching unless or until someone like you is willing to witness to that and to share your faith with them.

And yet we find ourselves not even willing to get into the boat, let alone to get out of the boat, not willing to go into the deep water for a great catch. We find ourselves stuck in the shallows where we find it harder and harder to be a disciple. And if we're not convinced and convicted about the truth of God's Word in the church, we're never going to convince or convict anyone else.

And things will just continue to go further and further from what God intended this world to be a place to plant the seeds of his kingdom. So all of us will be with him one day in paradise. And so my friends don't expect everyone to like you or thank you for the witness of your faith. Jesus promised they wouldn't if they don't hate you because of it.

Maybe we're not doing it right, but we would rather be loved by God and hated by men than loved by people and not know God. And so it is time for us once again to accept the call of participation, to live on the call of our baptism, to be disciples. So we can make disciples, so we can get into the boat and then get out of the boat to share God's truth.