I Wanna Meet Jesus… but who will introduce me to him?
Category: Faithblogs
If you could meet someone, anyone, who would it be? Gandhi? Martin Luther King Jr? A famous actor or singer? How about Jesus?
Over the past few years a lot of surveys and questionnaires with the above in mind have been taken and the results have surprised a lot of people. An example of this would be a recent UK poll of 3000 people which revealed that Jesus is the dead person most Britons would like to meet (obviously he’s not dead, but work with me on this one 
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The top 10 were as follows:
1 Jesus
2 Princess Diana
3 William Shakespeare
4 Albert Einstein
5 Marilyn Monroe
6 Leonardo da Vinci
7 Elvis Presley
8 Roald Dahl
9 Freddie Mercury
10 Martin Luther King
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A lot of time and attention has been given to looking into the idea that people want to know more about Jesus and books like unChristian by David Kinneman, I Sold My Soul On Ebay by Hemant Mehta, and They Like Jesus But Not the Church by Dan Kimble, all point to this one fact. The truth is, one only has to look at the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus to see that he was a guy that people wanted to be around, someone who excited the people, someone they wanted to follow. And according to the stats the same is true of people today.
Maybe it’s because Jesus is accepting of all, welcoming them just as they are and, contrary to what society thinks of them, he assures them that they are someone who matters to him. Maybe it’s because he not only leads but serves also. Let’s face facts, there are not many “leaders” today who would lower themselves to the place of a slave and wash other peoples feet, let alone sacrifice themselves for others. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s because he is the way, the truth, and the life.
Whatever their reasons people want to know more about Jesus, some even wanting to know him personally. The problem is how will they ever find and meet him? Now I’m not saying that God can’t reveal himself directly to anyone he wants without our help (God is not reliant on us one bit), but he did tell us to “Go and make disciples of all nations… and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you..” Matt. 28:19-20 (TNIV)
The question we must ask ourselves then, in light of the above Scripture, is how will they know about him if we don’t go and tell them? And how will they see him if we don’t we show them him working in and through our lives? I think the following words from the song If We Are the Body by Casting Crowns speak volumes about this…
If we are the Body
Why aren’t His arms reaching
Why aren’t His hands healing
Why aren’t His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren’t His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a way
Why indeed…
Christian St John M.Div, BChM, ACS
June, 2009
Picture by Julia Freeman-Woolpert
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