One Gospel – different methods
“ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all.
Gal 6,7
I recently heard a story which inspired me about this verse. There was a time when Thomas Alwa Edison was travelling and he was accompanied by another scientist who was an atheist. During the travel when Edison was reading Bible, the other scientist without knowing he was Edison asked him, “You look like a studied young man and in this age of science how do you believe God, religion and all that?. ‘If young people like you search for God, who is going to create a better world?” He asked.
Edison quietly introduced himself and the other scientist was shocked at it. They went on a brief talk and the other scientist wanted to visit Edison’s house to know more about him. Edison invited him to his house and when the scientist saw a new invention by Edison he asked how he did invent it.
Edison replied, “I didn’t do anything; It was just there like that you see when I woke up one day”.
The other scientist said, “How would it come just like that without you creating I”
Edison gave the same reply again and again several times and the other scientist wouldn’t believe it as usual. Edison finally told him, “If you don’t believe it came just like that, how would you believe the Earth, Galaxy and Cosmos all formed one day by itself. If there is a creation, there is a creator and the truth is written in the Bible”
This was the knowledge of The Holy Spirit in Edison to lead the other scientist who was an atheist to believe in God.
Act 17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and earth, …..
I went to a xerox shop one day in Chennai, It was run by a Christian family and I saw a board of Swamy Vivekananda testifying about Jesus with the following line “If you need deliverance come to Jesus, He is The High God compared to anyone you know and he will deliver you”. The Holy Spirit gave this knowledge to the shop owner to place this visible board in the Shop so that every unbeliever who came to the shop would read it. Swami Vivekananda whom this society believes to be a respectable person has testified it. It would raise curiosity in the readers to know about our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the Bible inActs 17 we see The Holy Spirit guiding Apostle Paul to share the Gospel in a unique way when he was in Athens, a City full of Idols. There he saw a Altar named “ To an Unknown God” and said ‘I am going to proclaim that God who is Jesus Christ whom you worship unknowingly’.
Isa 45:18 For so says Jehovah the Creator of the heavens, He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is no other.
There may be circumstances in your life where you may wonder how to share the Gospel and testify Jesus. But always have Faith and pray for the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to guide you to proclaim the Gospel and testify Jesus in the most convincing way which no human mind can understand.
There is one Gospel, Salvation only through our Lord Jesus Christ but many methods to proclaim it.
Sol. Leo