Ask yourself What Would Jesus Do?

This is my first proper blog post and I wanted to ask one of the most fundamental questions, if Jesus wrote a blog what would he do? The simple answer would be I don’t know he didn’t have the internet in Galilee.  Never the less I want my blog to reflect some of the values that I hold dear due to my faith in Jesus Christ.

So the first thing I would like to do is to explain what Jesus has done in my life.  It would be hard to list everything as I believe that he has done so much for me and I know that not everybody reading this believes in Jesus Christ, but here is just example of his grace and mercy.

Five years ago I left university to move back home after finishing my degree.  A couple of months later I still didn’t have a job and was basically vegetating on the sofa all day every day.  One day the Church in my local town, to which my mother was a member, was holding a renvisioning day where they were looking at how the church might move forward.  For reasons I still can’t explain I decided to go along and take a look, to my amazement they didn’t treat me like a total stranger.   They welcomed me into their discussions and the next Sunday I went to the church for morning worship.  As soon as I stepped through the doors I was welcomed with open arms, like the prodigal son returning home.  My mother sat me with a few people she knew and went off to sing in the choir.  It was awkward at first because there were very few people who I recognised in the congregation, but eventually I felt comfortable.  My motives for going to church went exactly pure; I was actually looking for a girlfriend and to maybe increase my standing in the community.  Not really interested in their theology or what it was I actually believed.  That was until a few weeks later the local church started running an Alpha Course.  For the first time I really got it, I knew what it truly meant to be a Christian, to be a follower of Christ.  I had been a Christian all my life and so in that sense I couldn’t claim to be a born again Christian, but I would say that I gave my life to Christ on that course.  It was at that point in my life when I really wanted to study the scriptures and follow the example of Christ.  I still wanted a girlfriend but it didn’t consume me, and I stopped caring about social status I was simply happy to love and serve the lord.

So what would Jesus do? For me looking back it is very clear what he did.  He saw a very frightened, broken boy scared of moving into the real world of work.  He took me and remoulded me into a man who wants nothing than to sing the praises of the living God.  I am sure that Jesus saw in me, some small glimmer of talent that he could use, which to today has flourished into anyone of hundreds of activities that I have been involved in.   All thanks to that one simple welcoming gesture when I needed it most.

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