Monday, February 16, 2015

Crime and Heart Change

Crime will not cease until people's hearts are changed. The way to heart change is through Jesus. The way to Jesus is through followers of Christ taking that message out to the world....their community, city and beyond. Only through followers of Christ can people know LIFE CHANGE.

So here is the question: are we sharing the GOOD NEWS that brings heart change? Or are we complaining about crime, packing our bags and running to the next community that "seems" safer? Many of us struggle to want to do that all the time. But, in reflecting on this post today, I see that the only solution is not to run away from it but open my mouth and live my life as if my heart has been changed. Leaving a place that has crime is not the solution...sharing the gospel through word and deed IS. 

Here are just two of the promises scripture offers to us about what HE does for us and for others.
 Ponder them this week and think about whether you will be the vehicle of change that God can use for the Greater Montgomery community.

Ezekiel 11:19 - And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.


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