We might even identify with the term "heathen." as we were all born in the first Adam.

I was thinking about this today and wondered if anyone had a thought on our approach. I was taught our mission was to save sinners by leading them in a prayer of salvation, and I learnd the "Kennedy Approach" many years ago.

When I met my husband I was still asking the question, "If you should die today, and God were to ask you, why should I let you into my kingdom, what would you say?" "Did you know, you can know you have eternal life?" (etc...)

I prayed with many to recieve Jesus as their Savior, and led many to Christ as a result of my understanding. I am not saying this was not important, as I recognized the annointing even in the middle of a game of cards. I baked chocolate chip cookies and took them to my neighbors and although there was nothing special about the cookies, they too became annointed, miraculously I suppose. I am just saying it had to be God.

What I am stating is that in this understanding, most of those who came to understand Jesus died for their sins, and prayed to be saved, lost their zeal. Most are still churched, and one is a missionary, but some of these lost their passion and the enthusiasm they had in the beginning.

I see it different now, because when Jesus died, he saved them, and my accountable position might have been to find a way to identify with the hidden Christ that was within them even before they came to accept him as their Savior.

My understanding at this time is to say that there are two covenants, and the Law Covenant is a fading glory. The understanding that comes with the other covenant, which is the covenant of Grace, brings a new man mentality. Condemnation comes with Law, and it wears people out. It causes them to keep up the motions by self motivating projects and programs, but the once passionate relationship with Jesus, becomes dim, as though this life has been sucked out of us.

During this time in my life I also experienced the lack of life in my walk, and sincerely tried to re-focus. I recognized God in my past but not in the now. Every time I spoke of Jesus, he was referenced in the past.

I had been told while witnessing in the beginning, that his presence prevailed in my speech, and how strong the annointing was as my voice shook with uncertainty during an appointed moment. I longed for a reestablished zeal, and experienced a fading glory.

I think the purpose Jesus came to in his death was a result of the Law Covenant, and I saw myself experience this death in my own walk while still practicing tradition, or religion. There is a glory in the law for sure, but Jesus came to bring a new covenant, and a new mindset. My experience also walked out the law and I actually found myself in a law situation through crisis.

Today I know him in the present, I am a new creation, the old is passed away, and the all has become new.

I did not mean to express all of this, because I wanted to hear from others about how we approach people who are unaware that Christ in in them too. Please share your thoughts, Love In Christ, Gayle

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Going forth with a message of "be ye reconciled to God" and the testimony that God is not mad at you regardless of what you have done and that He loves you just the way you are but that He loves you too much to leave you that way.

If I may so boldly say it this way, the ministry of reconciliation is to love the hell out of people and in so doing to love them out of that hell. Swallowing up death and hell with the life of God we have that is a provision for us and belongs to us because of our identity with Christ in his finished work.

I also didn't mean to say so much but anyway thats what I feel.